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October 26, 2021
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Portland, Ore. – Please see the assertion from Dr. Alka Chandna, PhD, PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Circumstances, relating to a just-obtained federal document indicating vital animal welfare violations at Legacy Well being in Portland, Oregon:
It strains credulity to consider that an establishment that can’t administer anesthesia with out killing an animal affected person will be trusted to ship optimum healthcare. Simply-released authorities paperwork obtained by PETA reveal that Legacy Well being was cited for a vital violation of federal animal welfare legal guidelines for failing to make sure sufficient veterinary look after a monkey who had been utilized in an experimental process. A valve on the anesthesia machine had been left closed, and the monkey skilled problem respiratory and finally endured what will need to have been a painful and distressing dying from pressure-related trauma to the lungs.
The tons of of animals—together with monkeys, sheep, pigs, and genetically modified mice—experimented on and killed yearly in Legacy Well being’s laboratories really feel ache and worth their lives simply as a lot as any of the corporate’s executives—so Legacy Well being would do effectively to modernize its experimentation program by leaving archaic and merciless animal assessments behind and utilizing solely subtle, human-relevant analysis strategies.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals are usually not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info on PETA’s newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
