Pramoda Chitrabhanu

Approximately 2,500 Lobsters To Be Boiled Alive-Take Action Now!

From: Pramoda Chitrabhanu via PETA Tell St. Thomas Episcopal Church to cancel its cruel lobster boil immediately! Take Action Dear Pramoda, On November 8, St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Huntsville, Alabama, plans to hold its annual Lobsterfest event, at which approximately 2,500 lobsters will be boiled alive —an act that researcher Gordon Gunter described in the journal Science as "unnecessary torture." When dropped into scalding water, lobsters whip their bodies wildly and scrape [Read more...]

Tell NIH to Stop Torturing Infant Monkeys – from PETA

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From PETA to Pramoda Chitrabhanu...   Where It All Began ... Harry Harlow’s psychological experiments on monkeys in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s were infamous for their cruelty. Harlow tore newborns away from their mothers, gave some infants  “surrogate mothers” made of wire and wood, and kept other traumatized babies in isolation in tiny metal boxes, sometimes for up to a year. Realizing that such horrific conditions resulted in long-term, debilitating psychological trauma for the infants, [Read more...]

Response from US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand about Captive Primate Safety Act

This is a response from US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to Pramoda Chitrabhanu concerning the Captive Primate Safety Act... August 27, 2014 Dear Ms. Chitrabhanu, Thank you for contacting me regarding the Captive Primate Safety Act.  This legislation would amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to add nonhuman primates to the definition of "prohibited wildlife species" for purposes of the prohibition against the sale or purchase of such species in interstate or foreign commerce.  I share your [Read more...]