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July 21, 2023
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Baltimore – PETA is urging the College of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) to prevent its agonizing and useless decompression illness experiments carried out on mice for the U.S. Army, which bankrolls the checks with just about $1 million in taxpayer price range.
In UMB experimenter Stephen Thom’s checks, over 2,000 mice are confined to a decompression chamber for as much as two hours at a time to urge the “bends.” He additionally inserts probes into their rectums, places petroleum-based chemical substances into their eyes, drills into their skulls, injects chemical substances into their brains, and forces them into carbon dioxide gasoline chambers. The mice are in the long run killed via being bled to demise.
The Army additionally price range decompression research at Duke College and the schools of San Diego and South Florida. PETA despatched letters to the management at those establishments urging them to prevent engaging in the checks and to Secretary of Protection Lloyd J. Austin and Secretary of the Army Carlos Del Toro noting that many non-animal analysis strategies are extra acceptable to people, together with in vitro research, reanalysis of present human diver information, machine-learning ways, and pc modeling. Decompression illness, frequently known as “the bends,” and oxygen toxicity impact species in disparate techniques on account of main physiological variations between them.
“The Army can’t declare to be an international chief so long as it continues tormenting animals in barbaric decompression illness and oxygen toxicity checks that it is aware of are inappropriate to human well being,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is looking on UMB and secretaries Austin and Del Toro to change to awesome, human-relevant strategies, as France and the U.Okay. have accomplished, and prevent losing taxpayers’ cash and animals’ lives.”
Final yr, the Army ended its investment of decompression checks carried out on sheep on the College of Wisconsin–Madison as much as two years forward of agenda following a PETA enchantment to Del Toro that was once cosigned via retired Rear Admiral Dr. Marion Balsam.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please consult with PETA.org, concentrate to The PETA Podcast, or apply the crowd on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.