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Dear Jean,
Imagine living the rest of your life in solitary confinement—nothing to do, nothing to look at, and no one to communicate with. Every minute of every day is exactly the same, and there's no reason to hope that things could change. That's what most monkeys in laboratories endure.
PETA has film showing tormented monkeys in facilities across the U.S. Confined, frustrated, and totally alone, they paced and circled endlessly. They demonstrated severe distress and profound loneliness, driven even to self-harm and self-mutilation: Some pulled out their own hair, bit themselves, and pressed their thumbs into their eye sockets.
We MUST get monkeys out of laboratories. Support PETA's "Stop Animal Testing" Challenge today and do twice as much to help protect monkeys and other animals from suffering in experiments. Your contribution today will be matched dollar for dollar, up to our $500,000 goal, doubling your impact!
Solitary confinement is the bleakest and most inhumane of circumstances. The United Nations calls it a form of torture, on the same level as waterboarding, as it induces psychological agony in victims. The monkeys at national primate "research" centers, apparently driven to such psychosis, often shook the cages and displayed frustration and total desperation—but no one there would help them.
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