Target: National Institutes of Health, https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/contact-us,
NIH funds a researcher named Zoe Donaldson, of the University of Colorado, who needlessly torments and kills voles in order to gain information regarding human bonding. Voles mate for life, are loving partners and parents, and are devastated when they lose their partner. We don’t need this information. Anyone curious about human bonding can study humans. Please send the following letter to NIH to register your protest:
I am writing to protest my tax dollars going to Zoe Donaldson’s research on voles and human emotion. Cruelty to innocent animals, torture and murder are despicable human activities that are criminal outside the “scientific” realm. In the case of Donaldson’s research, it is clearly unnecessary and criminally inhumane. We do not need to be cruel to small animals to ‘better understand” human emotional states. We can study the human beings having the emotions. And what good does it do to know more detail about the stages of long-term grief or whether oxytocin affects bonding or not? This knowledge is of no value whatsoever. It is simply one diseased mind picking at a scab to see what is underneath. The act causes pain and retards healing. We must heal our relationship with this planet and the other living things we share it with, or we will become extinct ourselves. How does Donaldson’s “research” promote that? It adds nothing, and should not be funded.
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