Animal Testing, Success in CLE, South Pointe Hospital, Ingrid E. Newkirk, University of Missouri-Columbia’s (Mizzou), L’Oréal, more...
I just received incredible news and wanted to share it with you right
away.
South Pointe Hospital in Ohio has agreed to stop using live dogs to train its
emergency medicine residents! This is an enormous win for PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) and for innocent
dogs.
This training program had been on PCRM’s list for a while now—South Pointe
refused to end the dog lab even after our team provided extensive evidence
supporting ethically and educationally superior nonanimal training methods. So,
last week, we launched a public billboard campaign across northeastern Ohio—and
within 24 hours, the white flag went up and we received the good news that the
animal lab has been SHUT DOWN!
Please take a moment to smile and feel good about the role you played in saving the lives of countless dogs. And then please recommit to PCRM’s work.
We’ve got to do more—because so many animals are still suffering. Let’s use this victory to energize us to work harder to promote cruelty-free research and training, and to advocate for preventive medicine.
The South Pointe Hospital campaign is a win for animals and for people, but it is just one victory in a much larger battle. The only way we’re going to keep moving forward with big changes is with your financial support and continued activism.
Starting today, our focus shifts to animal training labs at:
A message by Ingrid E. Newkirk:
Right now, healthy pigs are scheduled to die in the University of
Missouri-Columbia’s (Mizzou) emergency medicine residency animal lab.
We need your help to save them … before it’s too late!
Since you clearly care about the well-being of animals, I urge you to help the PCRM. Any membership gift amount will make a tremendous difference for these animals.
We know we can win this battle because of our track record in getting programs to switch from animals to simulators. Just last month we convinced South Pointe Hospital in Ohio that its emergency medicine residents should be trained using only cruelty-free, human-relevant methods—not live dogs.
The cruelty going on is heartbreaking. It’s hard to believe this still happens when it’s widely known that it’s more effective to train on simulators than animals…
In training sessions, Mizzou emergency medicine residents make incisions into a live pig’s throat and chest, and cut into the pig’s veins. Then they insert needles and tubes and spread their ribs to practice cardiac procedures, which includes operating right on the animal’s heart! The pigs are killed and then the final procedure is performed.
We cannot let any more pigs die in these training labs!
That’s why we’ve set a seven-day $26,000 fundraising goal. Join PCRM with a tax-deductible gift today to help us with this campaign and so many others.
Your donation will help us reach our $26,000 goal—so that we can stay on track and fully fund this effort and all of our other lifesaving campaigns that help animals and people.
Billboards End Cleveland Clinic’s Live Dog Lab |
Without your support this
victory would never have happened.
Please take a moment to smile and feel good about the role you played in saving the lives of countless dogs. And then please recommit to PCRM’s work.
We’ve got to do more—because so many animals are still suffering. Let’s use this victory to energize us to work harder to promote cruelty-free research and training, and to advocate for preventive medicine.
The South Pointe Hospital campaign is a win for animals and for people, but it is just one victory in a much larger battle. The only way we’re going to keep moving forward with big changes is with your financial support and continued activism.
Starting today, our focus shifts to animal training labs at:
- University of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine
- University of Washington
- Baystate Medical Center
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A message by Ingrid E. Newkirk:
All animals value life and liberty. While that should be reason enough not to
burn, poison, mutilate, and kill them in experiments, billions of dollars are
still being poured into experiments on animals—even though 90 percent of these
studies fail to lead to human treatments. Animal
experiments are so crude and ineffective that the U.S. National
Institutes of Health (NIH) has admitted that 95 percent of all drugs shown to be
safe in tests on animals fail in human trials because they don't work or are
dangerous.
Today,
scientists with PETA's international affiliates are working hard to promote
effective, animal-free science through the development and validation of
non-animal testing methods that can save both human and animal lives. PETA's
affiliates have more scientists working to promote these methods than any other
animal-protection organization, and earlier this month, representatives of PETA
U.K. and PETA U.S. presented some of the cutting-edge projects that they're
working on to the hundreds of attendees at the
10th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life
Sciences.
This
meeting is the world's premier conference on alternatives to animal use, and it
was a terrific opportunity to highlight the work of PETA's affiliates on the
most significant trend in contemporary research. PETA U.S. posters presented
original research documenting that the exclusion of mice and rats from the U.S.
Animal Welfare Act has resulted in pain, injury, and death for untold numbers of
these sensitive animals through neglect and incompetence. Another of its poster
presentations critiqued NIH's failure to comply with a congressional directive
to conduct a meaningful review of the ethics governing the use of nonhuman
primates in experiments.
Scientists
representing the PETA International Science Consortium
Ltd.—which PETA is a member of—also attended the meeting and had a
booth that provided information about non-animal test methods. They gave
informative talks on technology to replace the use of animals in eye irritation
testing, inhalation testing, and antitoxin production and presented a poster on
alternatives to the use of fetal calf serum.
Scientists
with PETA's international affiliates are helping to secure a future in which
modern, animal-free science is the standard in laboratories around the world.
Their success—and everything that PETA can accomplish for animals—is possible
only through the support of kind people like you. Thank you.
Kind
regards,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
Ingrid E. Newkirk
We need your help to save them … before it’s too late!
Since you clearly care about the well-being of animals, I urge you to help the PCRM. Any membership gift amount will make a tremendous difference for these animals.
We know we can win this battle because of our track record in getting programs to switch from animals to simulators. Just last month we convinced South Pointe Hospital in Ohio that its emergency medicine residents should be trained using only cruelty-free, human-relevant methods—not live dogs.
The cruelty going on is heartbreaking. It’s hard to believe this still happens when it’s widely known that it’s more effective to train on simulators than animals…
In training sessions, Mizzou emergency medicine residents make incisions into a live pig’s throat and chest, and cut into the pig’s veins. Then they insert needles and tubes and spread their ribs to practice cardiac procedures, which includes operating right on the animal’s heart! The pigs are killed and then the final procedure is performed.
We cannot let any more pigs die in these training labs!
That’s why we’ve set a seven-day $26,000 fundraising goal. Join PCRM with a tax-deductible gift today to help us with this campaign and so many others.
Your donation will help us reach our $26,000 goal—so that we can stay on track and fully fund this effort and all of our other lifesaving campaigns that help animals and people.
It’s Time for L’Oréal to Go Cruelty-Free! Add Your Voice to This Petition
A petition written by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is calling on the world’s leading cosmetics manufacturer, L’Oréal, to get behind them on their #becrueltyfree campaign. According to the petition, L’Oréal claims they do not support or conduct animal testing with their products, yet they sell in China, where animal tests are required for cosmetics.
HSUS is urging L’Oréal to join over 200 other cruelty-free brands and 37 countries who have already banned cruel animal tests for cosmetics. If you agree that L’Oréal should live up to their proclaimed beliefs, then please take a moment to sign the petition and voice your opinion.
USDA Restores
Animal Welfare Database, Sort Of  Physicians Committee scientists traveled the globe this summer to attend scientific meetings where they shared their research on replacing animal use in research. Photos > What's Trending?   |
