Baltimore, Dec. 8 -- Just in time for the end of Johns Hopkins University's (JHU) fall semester, PETA has placed an eye-catching new ad in today's edition of The Hill calling on the National Eye Institute (NEI) to stop funding JHU's gruesome and deadly brain experiments on barn owls . A mobile billboard will also circulate the ad around campus today, blasting audio recordings of screeching owls taken inside a JHU laboratory.
When: Wednesday, December 9, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m.
Where: Overpass bridge over I-83, 2715 Wyman Park Dr., Baltimore
The print ad explains that the NEI gave $1.5 million in taxpayer dollars to JHU experimenter Shreesh Mysore, whose current set of painful experiments on between five and 60 barn owls involves attaching bolt...