Johns Hopkins University and Shreesh Mysore can no longer get away with the abuse and inhumane killing and experimentation on countless barn owls in the name of mental health research. According to PETA, “Yet at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), experimenter Shreesh Mysore holds barn owls captive in his laboratory, cuts into their skulls, pokes electrodes around in their brains, forces them to watch dots on a screen, and eventually kills them—all so he can supposedly learn something about humans with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.” This ends NOW.
As much as we must fight for equality and end injustice enacted upon other humans, we unknowingly allow such actions to be taken on other living creatures. There is no good moral explanation or justification for treating barn owls in such a way. Animals have never been, are not, and will never be ours to experiment on.