Animal rights activists claimed they firebombed primate researcher's vehicle
By: North County Times wire services - | ∞
LOS ANGELES - Animal activists Thursday claimed they firebombed an automobile belonging to a UCLA primate researcher.
A white BMW belonging to Arthur Rosenbaum was set on fire in front of his home at 465 Loring Ave., said Dr. Jerry Vlasak of The North American Animal Liberation Press Office.
Police confirmed there was a car fire in the area on Sunday but did not immediately release more details.
The animal activists say Rosenbaum conducts abusive experiments on monkeys and should be subjected to "some of the same cruel and useless atrocities he perpetrates on innocent primates in his laboratory."
They said one of his experiments involves restraining monkeys in a device that keeps their heads from moving and gluing metallic coils to their eyeballs to track their eye movements. The experiment allegedly leaves them cross-eyed.
"This is an inordinately cruel experiment purporting to study a usually self-limiting disease that can readily be studied in volunteer humans," Vlasak said. "I hope Rosenbaum stops his cruel and useless experiments."
According to the activists, "We have seen by our own eyes the torture on fully conscious primates in his lab. We have heard their whimpers and screeches of pain. Seeing this drove one of us to rush out and vomit. We have seen hell, and it's in Rosenbaum's lab."
The experimentation is financed by a National Institutes of Health grant.
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