Folk Icon Wants Columbia University’s Cruel, Wasteful Experiments to End

“The experiments being conducted at Columbia University are not only cruel, they are a sickening waste of tax dollars that could be spent on programs that are truly beneficial to human health.” —Joan Baez

Recognized internationally for her melodious voice, haunting songs, and passion for social justice, Joan Baez embodies the values of understanding and peace that marked the ’60s.

She is outraged at the crude, cruel, and entirely pointless experiments being performed on primates and other animals at Columbia University and has added her voice to the growing chorus of dissent. Humanitarians and animal rights advocates point out that since there are limited resources with which to address human disease, it is imperative that precious health-care dollars go into programs—such as prevention, public health education, clinical research, and human population studies—that benefit the most people.

Columbia University’s experiments on primates fail to meet that criterion. E. Sander Connolly, Michel Ferin, and Raymond Stark have received millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health to induce strokes in baboons; to measure stress in menstruating monkeys; and to pump pregnant baboons full of nicotine.

For more information and to find out what you can do to help, please visit ColumbiaCruelty.com.