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November 18, 2022
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Norfolk, Va. – On the 94th anniversary (November 18) of their first look on display screen, iconic Disney characters Mickey and Minnie Mouse are being reimagined, courtesy of PETA Senior Social Media Artist Tiani Hernandez, who has created a satirical new picture (accessible right here) as a part of PETA’s marketing campaign to steer pharmaceutical firms and universities to ban the infamous pressured swim take a look at.
Reflective of the struggling of actual mice and rats utilized in pressured swim checks, the picture depicts a panicked Mickey saying, “Oh gosh Minnie, this positive isn’t swell!” and a determined Minnie calling, “Assist, Mickey! I’m drowning!”
Hernandez’s illustration evokes actual life, not fantasy. Within the extensively debunked take a look at, experimenters induce panic in susceptible small animals, akin to mice and rats, who could also be dosed with a take a look at substance earlier than they’re dropped into inescapable cylinders of water and made to swim, terrified that they’ll drown. They try to climb the steep sides of the containers and even dive underwater to search for an escape. The take a look at is finished underneath the inaccurate assumption that it may possibly reveal one thing about psychological well being circumstances in people. As soon as it’s full, experimenters usually kill the animals, both by gassing, an overdose of an anesthetic, or breaking their necks.
“Anybody disturbed by the considered beloved Disney animals struggling in near-drowning checks ought to spare a thought for the clever, delicate mice and rats that suffer in these merciless experiments in actual life,” says PETA neuroscientist Dr. Emily Trunnell. “PETA is looking on establishments world wide to drop the pressured swim take a look at and undertake trendy analysis strategies that go away animals in peace and have a much better probability of serving to people.”
Following discussions with PETA entities, 15 firms, together with Bayer and Johnson & Johnson, and a number of other universities (a few of which beforehand carried out the take a look at for despair analysis) have declared that they don’t intend to make use of it sooner or later. PETA is looking on Eli Lilly and Sanofi to observe swimsuit.
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