Cruel Treatment In Animal Labs Is “Ordinary”
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The Salt Lake Tribune reports: “PETA spy infiltrates U. animal-research labs, documents alleged suffering.” An investigator documented miserable conditions for and terrible suffering of the dogs, cats, monkeys, rats, mice, rabbits, frogs, cows, pigs, and sheep at animal-research labs at University of Utah.
The allegations are:
- Failed to ensure that experiments minimized discomfort, distress and pain to the animals. In one case, up to 17 kittens from three litters died or were euthanized — with no experiment data generated — after injections to induce hydrocephalus.
- Discouraged the filing of health status reports to staff veterinarians — “even when animals were clearly in distress.”
- Failed to provide adequate housing and management for animals that, in some instances, led to unnecessary stress, pain, injury or death.
- Failed to provide minimal enrichment for animals — companionship for monkeys, balls for pigs, paper towels for mice — to reduce emotional stress.
Sounds like cruelty to me. But what do I know? I’m not a VP of Research or anything.
Here’s what Tom Parks, the University of Utah VP of Research (801-581-7236, tom.parks@utah.edu), said:
“It’s a remarkably banal list of ordinary events in an animal-care facility.”
You heard it! The list of cruel treatment above is “ordinary.”
Update: video is now available.
Undercover Investigation Reveals Kitten Deaths and Other Animal Suffering. Learn More.
Wow… So when and who decided that our lives are more important than any other creature on this planet. Every last little piece of life, no matter how great of small, was granted the privilege of food, air, and water to develop and prosper. This is such a terrible story, and i know everyone together must stand and fight for a change.
When i hear about stuff like this happening(animal testing), one thing always comes to mind… Where did it all start? Why do we even need to do this? Its fairly simple really, and you just have to look around you at all the products, medicine, services, and basically our way of life, that has developed the need to solve our crisis. Its our own fault for selling cigarettes, or not fully testing medicine before it was used to treat some random flu that probably was cause by something else unnatural we brought into this world. Its has always been something man-made that is causing cancer and ill-ness, and now we need to punish animals to fix what we caused………..Fu&* OFF CRUEL WORLD!! MAKE WAY FOR OUR LORD HE CAN SOLVE THIS
Keep your false god out of your arguments, Mr Smith. Man decides that his life is more important. Would you have your child or lover die for some piglet? I think not. If you answered no, then you are a hypocrite. If you answered yes then you are a greater monster than those who test on animals. To be human is to judge. Every breath you take kills bacteria. Every bite you eat is something once alive. Suffering is life, and if you don’t have what it takes to deem one life more important then another, well you should just go starve yourself then.
To Bob,
Most animal testing doesn’t actually benefit humans at all. You’re presenting a false dichotomy when you act like it’s either us or them, it’s not.
to whom it concerns :
this is cruel ,inhuman way to treat these animals .animals were created by god .every living thing in our world has a purpose.
animals are innocent .animals have feelings as well as they know wats happening to them .animals sufferng in pain and stress.animals need love and someone to care for them .
i don’t like wat i saw on the video.i’m an animal over someone needs to speak up for all animals .animals don’t have a way to comunicate and tell us how they feel .i’m speaking for them .this abuse and torture needs to stop .animals are more important then you killing animals and doing test on them.
think how you would feel if you were them .? and you were treated this way .you would try to fight too. love and caring is more healthy and rewarding then hurting innocent animals .
sincerly cathy longofarr