For immediate release:
February 15, 2022
Contact:
Amanda Hays 202-483-7382
College Station, Texas – This Thursday, PETA advocates will confront officials at the Texas A&M University Board of Trustees meeting and demand that the university fulfill its promise to release healthy dogs for adoption. Their infamous canine muscular dystrophy lab has finished using them. The lab’s chief experimenter, Peter Nghiem, violated this promise and sent nine healthy dogs to the school’s veterinary school lab.
When: Thursday, February 17, 1 p.m
Where: Memorial Student Center, Bethany Ballroom, 275 Joe Routt Blvd. (near Lamar Street), College Station
PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo said: “Nine healthy dogs could be in shelters right now instead of living in cages. “PETA is ready to take it all in and put them in care homes if Texas A&M lives up to its promise.”
Released by PETA footage from inside the lab that shows the harsh conditions for the dogs, they are kept in barren metal cells. In 2019, under pressure from PETA advocates, doctors, and people with muscular dystrophy, Texas A&M halted breeding dogs that developed the condition. More than 50 have been released to apply.
PETA — in part, their motto that “animals are not our thing to experiment with” — advocates speciesism, a human worldview – supremacy.
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