This morning, PETA sent a formal complaint<\/a> to State\u2019s Attorney for Baltimore City Marilyn Mosby, requesting a criminal investigation into the possible violation of anti-cruelty laws involved in the gruesome and deadly brain experiments on owls<\/a> conducted at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) by experimenter Shreesh Mysore.<\/p>\n Mysore cuts into barn owls\u2019 skulls, implants electrodes into their brains, restrains them, clamps their eyes open, and bombards them with sounds and lights for up to 12 hours. When the owls\u2019 brains become too damaged to use for further experimentation, he kills them. PETA notes that only approval from a university animal care and use committee would exempt this mutilation and killing from Maryland\u2019s cruelty-to-animals laws\u2014and because JHU\u2019s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee approved Mysore\u2019s experiments even though he lacked mandatory state permits for using owls for this purpose<\/a>, its approval is invalid.<\/p>\n \u201cAnyone who mutilates, torments, and kills owls without a required permit would certainly face cruelty-to-animals charges,\u201d says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. \u201cShreesh Mysore\u2019s horrific experiments aren\u2019t exempt from Maryland\u2019s animal protection laws since he failed to get required permits, and PETA is asking the state\u2019s attorney to hold him and Johns Hopkins University accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has confirmed that Mysore failed to obtain mandatory scientific collecting permits from 2015 to 2018\u2014even though the agency sent him reminders\u2014yet his experiments on barn owls continued during this time frame and may have involved owls\u2019 deaths. He purports to experiment on owls to research human attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder, despite significant hearing and vision differences between the species<\/a> and his admission that results from experiments like these can be \u201cmisinterpret[ed].\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n In 1981, PETA\u2019s landmark Silver Spring monkeys<\/a> investigation into the Institute for Behavioral Research<\/a>\u2014then a federally funded laboratory in Maryland\u2014led to the nation\u2019s first arrest and criminal conviction for cruelty to animals, the first confiscation of abused animals from a laboratory, and the first U.S. Supreme Court victory for animals used in experiments.<\/p>\n PETA\u2014whose motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to experiment on\u201d\u2014opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please click here<\/strong><\/a>, visit PETA.org<\/strong><\/a>, or follow the group on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, Facebook<\/strong><\/a>, or Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Criminal Charges Sought Over Deadly Johns Hopkins Owl Experiments<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n This post was originally published on Blog \u2013 PETA<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning, PETA sent a formal complaint to State\u2019s Attorney for Baltimore City Marilyn Mosby, requesting a criminal investigation into the possible violation of anti-cruelty laws involved in the gruesome and deadly brain experiments on owls conducted at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) by experimenter Shreesh Mysore. Mysore cuts into barn owls\u2019 skulls, implants electrodes into… Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n The post Criminal Charges Sought Over Deadly Johns Hopkins Owl Experiments<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2150,9584],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426854,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426853\/revisions\/426854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}