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February 27, 2024
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Please see the next assertion from PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo relating to a slew of citations posted by the U.S. Division of Agriculture towards Emory College after staffers on the college’s Whitehead Biomedical Analysis Constructing violated the federal Animal Welfare Act quite a few occasions. PETA has filed a criticism with the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH), urging the funding company to research and reduce Emory’s funding.
The workaday callousness and cruelty at Emory College documented on this sickening raft of U.S. Division of Agriculture citations exhibits that the varsity shouldn’t be allowed to get its grasping palms on one other purple cent of taxpayer cash.
Experimenters drilled into animals’ skulls, uncovered their brains and spinal cords, operated on their brains, surgically inserted probes, and even injected a vein behind the animals’ eyes—all with out ever checking to see if a much less painful various was accessible, as required by regulation. Neglectful staffers let a gerbil bounce from his cage and maintain so many bone fractures that he needed to be euthanized, injured a pig’s snout throughout transport, and saved guinea pigs in an unusually chilly room for seven days.
Emory ought to get out of the enterprise of tormenting animals and redirect its assets—greater than $485 million in NIH grants final 12 months—towards trendy, non-animal analysis strategies that can really assist people. We urge the varsity to undertake PETA’s Analysis Modernization Deal.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to experiment on”—factors out that Each Animal Is Somebody and presents free Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on X, Fb, or Instagram.