Respected Eco-Campaigner Takes on Columbia University

Named one of the “Most Admired Women of the Year” by Good Housekeeping magazine and one of the “Most Intriguing People of the Year” by People magazine, Julia Butterfly Hill leapt onto the international stage when she climbed up a 200-foot ancient redwood tree and lived in its canopy for 738 days to draw attention to the plight of old-growth forests. She ultimately also succeeded in securing a 3-acre buffer zone!

Now Julia hopes to score another victory by helping the baboons and monkeys suffering in the laboratories at Columbia University. The courageous young woman recently wrote to her friends and supporters, asking that they stand with her to “demand an end to [Columbia’s] cruel and wasteful experiments.”

Referring to the crude menstrual experiments conducted by Columbia experimenter Michel Ferin, Julia writes: “I have learned that while many effective projects focused on public health education and clinical work with women lack funding and while women who suffer distress during their menstrual cycles go without the medical care that they need, millions of dollars are being wasted to fund a horrible project that involves cruelty to animals. … As a woman, I am outraged that other beings are undergoing such outrageous and inhumane torture under the guise of ‘helping’ women.”

Click here to read Julia Butterfly Hill’s entire letter.

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