The U.S. Military would love you to imagine it not kills animals in merciless decompression and oxygen toxicity checks.
That’s why Military body of workers advised PETA supporters all through a contemporary call-in motion that the army department had ended those checks.
But it surely’s merely no longer true.
Not too long ago, PETA effectively driven the Military to sink its decompression experiments on sheep on the College of Wisconsin–Madison as much as two years forward of agenda, following our letter to Secretary of the Military Carlos Del Toro.
However Military-funded experiments carried out on different animals at Duke College, the College of California–San Diego, the College of Maryland–Baltimore, and the College of South Florida have persevered.
This doomed animal in a hyperbaric chamber is likely one of the numerous rats who College of South Florida experimenter Jay Dean has used to supposedly learn about oxygen toxicity in people, even supposing human-relevant, animal-free strategies are extensively to be had.
Mice and rats utilized in those checks are pressured to run on a treadmill, they usually’re electroshocked if they are able to’t stay up. Chemical substances are injected into their brains and rubbed into their eyes. Their skulls are drilled into, and their rectums are probed. After all, experimenters kill them, every so often through bleeding or gassing them to demise. This horror is all a part of an try to learn about decompression illness, extra repeatedly referred to as “the bends.”
PETA has contacted most sensible army officers and the universities’ leaders, urging them to desert send on those merciless and wasteful checks, that have won greater than $3.8 million in taxpayer investment.
Now PETA is looking you to TAKE ACTION and urge the Military, the U.S. Division of Protection, and the 4 universities concerned to finish the usage of all animals in those unnecessary and fatal decompression illness and oxygen toxicity experiments in desire of awesome, human-relevant, non-animal analysis strategies.