30 Years After PETA Exposed Cosmetics-Testing Lab, Dr. Larry Hansen, University of California, Baylor College of Medicine, Isolation and Psychosis in a U.S. Laboratory, Animal testing Weekly Updates at the Sustainable Action Network (SAN)

Innocent animals need your voice today.
Right now, animals are suffering and dying in emergency medicine training sessions at Baylor College of Medicine. Emergency medicine residents cut into live pigs to practice medical procedures. At the end of every session, the pigs are killed.
Mr Lichterman, if we don’t shut down this lab, more pigs will die! Take action now to help!
PCRM filed a federal complaint against Baylor in October, but they still haven’t budged—making your activism today even more critical.
To turn the pressure up, we are looking for 10,000 signatures by Friday.
Not only is killing animals in these painful training labs morally wrong, but it is also a less effective way than simulators to train our future doctors. What’s unbelievable is that Baylor already has a state-of-the-art simulation center—which it should be using instead of animals!

When the vast majority of other programs use human-relevant training methods, it’s time for Baylor to step into the 21st century and move beyond the crude practice of using animals. 
DEADLINE: Nov 13

My name is Dr. Larry Hansen.

I'm a medical doctor, a board-certified pathologist, and a tenured professor at the University of California.

I'm ranked as one of the top 100 Alzheimer's disease researchers worldwide with over 160 publications in the last 30 years.

I've also participated in taxpayer-funded dog experiments.
DEADLINE: Nov 13
As a medical student, I was instructed to forcibly restrain, cut apart, and kill friendly dogs, including a Golden Retriever and a black Labrador Retriever.

The Golden was the "lucky" one. We only cut her open, observed some basic physiologic functions, and killed her.

But the black Labrador had it far worse...

Week after week, we performed inept and painful procedures on her (bungled mutilations, really)over and over and over again.

Then we stuck a needle in her, killed her, and dumped her body in a garbage bag, like trash.

Well, these sweet puppies aren't trash. And I didn't have the strength of character to stand up to my professors back then.
DEADLINE: Nov 13
But after 40 years of practicing medicine, I'm determined to speak up now!

Cut the root of this problem: wasteful government spending.

"US Government to Go Ahead With Fatal Experiments on Dogs."
– Independent

I'm also sounding the alarm because the HEAVY HAND of government is about to ram through a new round of maximum pain dog experiments.

The Dept. of Veterans Affairs restrains puppies, drills into their skulls, and destroys their brains. Some are only 6-months old. Others are denied anesthesia and pain relief.

Let's be clear about something: these are the most painful dog labs in the entire federal government.

Let's be clear about something else: this isn't just wasteful... it's wrong!
It's a shameful betrayal of a 10,000 year-old bond. These puppies were purposefully bred to love and trust the very same government bureaucrats who torture them to advance their careers.

We've alerted the international media and we're pushing the PUPPERS Act in Congress. Nearly 100 Republican and Democrat co-sponsors are ready to drain the swamp!

But unlike the government's animal abusers, our campaign isn't funded with $15 billion in tax handouts.

I didn't have the character to stand up for these dogs when I abused them in medical school. It's an ethical failing I cannot undo.

That's why I'm getting behind WCW... and you should too.

Noelle
Callahan Lawrence Hansen, M.D.
Senior Advisor
White Coat Waste Project