Casey Affleckwho is involved in animal protection actions, has taken a new initiative. Oscar -winning actor and brother Ben Affleck He wrote a letter to legislators in his state of origin, Massachusetts, to urge them to support a new bill that will prohibit the baby from their mothers for laboratory experiments.

The letter is addressed to Senator Lydia Edurd and MP Michael S. Dei in view of today’s debate to the Joint State Affairs Committee of the State Senate and the House of Representatives.

If approved, the bill will prohibit researchers from separating newborn monkeys from their biological mothers or housing them separately “for the purposes of research, experimentation or product testing” in their first year of life. The legislation stipulates that the young primary can be temporarily removed or housed away from his mother only for his or her mother’s “medical prosperity”. The bill was presented by senators Joan Lavli with Mike Moore and Mike Brady.

“I am writing you to urge you to fully support the pioneering bill recently submitted to Massachusetts’s legislative body to protect infant primates from the disaster involving the removal of their mothers for experiments”, Ben Affleck writes in the letter, a copy of which was received by THR from a spokesman for PETA – people for the moral treatment of animals. “As a parent himself and someone who is close to my mother, I consider this kind of experiments to be particularly devastating.”

The actor said he recently learned from Peta that a workshop in Massachusetts had removed newborn primates from their mothers at birth, with the sole purpose of deliberately affecting their visual development.