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October 22, 2021
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Portland, Ore. – PETA has simply obtained paperwork revealing egregious animal welfare violations in Oregon Well being & Science College’s (OHSU) laboratories, prompting the group to ship a letter as we speak to high school President Danny Jacobs asking that he implement a zero-tolerance coverage that strips experimentation privileges from anybody caught violating federal animal welfare laws and pointers.
Among other incidents, staff failed to note when a monkey grew to become trapped between a wall and a row of cages, inflicting traumatic accidents and necessitating euthanasia. Two monkeys had been scalded to dying in a high-temperature cage washer, 12 mice slowly drowned from a gradual water valve leak, and after staff forgot to place water bottles in 5 cages, 4 prairie voles died of dehydration and one was euthanized.
“No one who scalds a monkey to dying or lets a dozen mice drown has any enterprise working with animals,” says PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna. “PETA is asking on OHSU’s president to finish the lethal incompetence within the faculty’s laboratories.”
The paperwork additionally reveal that a number of experimenters deviated from protocols accepted by the college’s oversight physique. In a single incident, a ferret needed to be euthanized following experimental mind surgical procedure performed by untrained personnel. Two different ferrets who had been used within the surgical procedure had been seen struggling—one appeared to have developed an an infection, indicated by “a robust foul odor.” In one other incident, experimenters improperly lower right into a marmoset’s cranium after which denied the animal veterinary take care of days. The monkey subsequently developed a mind an infection and needed to be euthanized.
OHSU obtained greater than $340 million in taxpayer cash from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being in 2020, with about half of that allotted to animal experimentation.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals usually are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra details about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
