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October 26, 2021
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Birmingham, Ala. – Please see Dr. Alka Chandna, PhD, PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Circumstances assertion concerning a just-obtained federal document indicating important animal welfare violations at Southern Analysis Institute in Birmingham, Alabama:
Drive-feeding doubtlessly toxic chemical compounds to susceptible canine, monkeys, rabbits, and different animals in painful and lethal assessments is enterprise as typical for the contract killers at Birmingham-based Southern Analysis Institute (SRI), however incompetence and a tradition of disregard add to the animals’ struggling. In accordance with a just-posted federal inspection report obtained by PETA, SRI’s failure to make sure protected caging for animals induced a monkey to maintain critical accidents to his mouth and lips after a clamp hanging from the cage to which he was confined turned caught in his mouth. In one other incident, a hamster’s tooth turned caught within the steel display screen that lined the highest of the cage through which he was held. The accidents to the hamster have been so extreme that he needed to be euthanized. In yet one more incident, experimenters at SRI uncared for to feed a hamster for a number of days. The animal’s situation deteriorated to such an extent that he needed to be euthanized.
The 1000’s of animals experimented on and killed yearly in SRI’s laboratories really feel ache and worth their lives simply as a lot as any of the corporate’s executives—so SRI would do effectively to modernize its testing program by leaving archaic and merciless animal assessments behind and utilizing solely refined, human-relevant testing strategies.
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