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July 7, 2023
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Ann Arbor, Mich. – Please see the next remark from PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna in regards to the vital and repeated violations posted by way of the U.S. Division of Agriculture in opposition to the College of Michigan:
It’s undoubtedly dangerous sufficient that the animals used within the College of Michigan’s (U-M) laboratories undergo the trauma of captivity and experiments, however even if those animals are being put out in their distress, they endure a great deal. After an worker ineptly tried to kill 4 rabbits, one among them used to be discovered nonetheless alive the next morning. It’s tough to believe the animal’s agony after the botched euthanasia or her horror at being held, probably, with 3 lifeless rabbits. In any other incident, an African grass rat—curious and delicate mammals local to sub-Saharan grasslands—used to be left in a filthy cage with out water for 4 days after staff took the cage to the cage washing machine with out noticing that the animal used to be nonetheless locked within. U-M used to be additionally cited by way of the feds for the usage of expired medicines to sedate a pig for an experimental process—doubtlessly contributing to the animal’s pressure and discomfort.
U-M raked in greater than $644 million in public budget final 12 months, however it has time and again demonstrated that it’s both incapable or unwilling to abide by way of essentially the most elementary animal coverage rules. In a grievance filed nowadays, PETA requested the Nationwide Institutes of Well being to cancel all federal investment of this facility. Taxpayers will have to now not be pressured to foot the invoice for the varsity’s forget and incompetence.
U-M will have to redirect its sources towards fashionable, non-animals analysis strategies that may in reality lend a hand people, and we urge officers there to undertake PETA’s Analysis Modernization Deal.
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