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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to University of Miami President Julio Frenk on Feb. 18, 2021, urging him to stop the university’s use of chinchillas for medical research. PETA representatives say that a 2020-21 undercover investigation discovered that Moulton Chinchilla Ranch, UM’s former chinchilla supplier, has been abusing animals.
“Will you please immediately reconsider your relationship with MCR and stop obtaining chinchillas altogether?” stated PETA’s letter sent to the University of Miami.
Photos and documents which PETA says were taken by an undercover worker show animals at the ranch in Chatfield, Minnesota, with serious conditions in need of veterinary care. Some conditions include swollen, pus-filled eyes, mutilated feet with exposed bones, overgrown teeth and exposed mammary tissue. Chinchillas are shown cramped inside of unkempt cages.
Amanda Hays 202-483-7382
College Station, Texas – To push Texas A&M University to end all experiments on golden retrievers and other dogs in its canine muscular dystrophy (MD) laboratory and to release the remaining dogs for adoption, a PETA supporter will cage themselves as well as realistic-looking stuffed dogs right outside the school’s veterinary graduation ceremony tomorrow.
When: Wednesday, May 12, 8 a.m.
Where: 730 Olsen Blvd., College Station
“The purpose of veterinary school is to teach students to heal animals, not torment them,” says PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Dr. Alka Chandna. “The class of 2021 will surely agree with PETA: Dogs don’t deserve to suffer in pointless experiments or spend a lifetime without feeling loved.”
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
The new figures are out, and U.S. laboratories subjected nearly 50,000 animals to experiments in 2019
that caused immense pain
without any pain relief a shameful admission that the U.S. has failed to move ahead with the times and avail itself of modern research methods. It is an indisputable fact that animal experiments fail to lead to treatments for humans, and this callous disregard for the suffering of sentient beings has us lagging behind other countries, both scientifically and ethically. State-of-the-art research methods, from organs-on-a-chip to supercomputers, provide far more sophisticated, effective results than electroshocking a monkey or putting owls in head restraints. It’s time to take the animal experimenters out of the driver’s seat and put modern scientists in charge.
Amanda Hays 202-483-7382
Baltimore – On Tuesday, a PETA supporter in an owl costume will deliver nearly 300,000 petitions to the office of Johns Hopkins University (JHU) President Ronald Daniels while leading activists in a spirited protest of JHU experimenter Shreesh Mysore’s appallingly cruel, admittedly worthless, and apparently illegal brain experiments on barn owls.
When: Tuesday, April 6, 12 noon–1 p.m.
Where: JHU, 3400 N. Charles St. (at the main entrance of Garland Hall), Baltimore
Mysore cuts into barn owls’ skulls, implants electrodes in their brains, forces the birds into plastic tubes or jackets so cramped that they can’t move their wings, clamps their eyes open, and bombards them with sounds and lights for up to 12 hours. Eventually, they’re killed. Mysore intends to use up to 60 barn owls in the current set of experiments including six birds just for surgical practice for his staff.