Help Animals Suffering In University Of Utah Laboratories
By CHELSEA RHODES, Research Associate, PETA
This week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced the findings of an eight-month undercover investigation inside two University of Utah (UU) laboratories, during which PETA’s investigator documented miserable conditions and neglect of animals. Incompetence, indifference and neglect appear to have led to the denial of such basic needs as adequate space, food, water and desperately-needed veterinary treatment, and all too frequently resulted in a terrible waste of life.
Such disregard for the psychological, emotional, and physical well-being of these animals not only constitutes violations of federal regulations and state anti-cruelty laws, but would incite the moral outrage of anyone who views the photographic and video evidence of the suffering inside these laboratories.
It was also discovered that through a state “pound seizure” law, hundreds, perhaps thousands of homeless dogs and cats from three local animal shelters were bought by UU, who performed cruel and invasive experiments on them. In one case, a pregnant cat was bought from a shelter for $15 so that experimenters could inject chemicals into her kittens’ brains. One kitten disappeared and was never found. The remaining kittens – AND two additional litters of kittens from other cats – all died.
PETA has filed complaints with the USDA and NIH, and a criminal cruelty complaint with the Humane Society of Utah. You can take action by joining PETA in asking the university to stop buying homeless dogs and cats from shelters, as well as calling on administrators to release to the public complete records on all of the animal experiments funded by our tax dollars, including grant proposals, experimental protocols, veterinary records, and oversight committee minutes.
Thank you for speaking out for animals in laboratories. Your voice makes a difference for the thousands of helpless animals who have none.
Photo by PETA.
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