Traumatized victims in metal cages the size of kitchen tables. Emily Deschanel’s character on FOX’s Bones uncovers fictional scenes like this every week. But this isn’t fiction. It’s happening to more than 1,000 chimpanzees kept in laboratories across the United States. So last week, Deschanel asked Congress to put an end to this abuse.
Deschanel wrote to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., asking him to support a ban on using primates in invasive scientific research.
eschanel asks Waxman to co-sponsor the Town-Reichert Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 1326). This bipartisan legislation would phase out invasive experiments on chimpanzees and release all federally owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries.
On TV, I play a forensic anthropologist who solves crimes by reading clues in victims’ bones,” writes Deschanel. “In real life, I’m an animal protection advocate, and I don’t need any more evidence to know that the way we treat chimpanzees is unacceptable.
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