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November 10, 2022
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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Baltimore – Please see the next assertion from PETA Vice President Shalin Gala concerning the U.S. Division of Agriculture’s newly launched quotation of Johns Hopkins College for a “vital” violation of federal Animal Welfare Act rules, together with failing to correctly doc how unwell a rabbit turned after being subjected to a tumor implantation. The animal acquired no veterinary care and needed to be euthanized.
Johns Hopkins College (JHU) shouldn’t be trusted with even yet another penny of taxpayer funding for experiments on animals. The USDA has cited JHU for a “vital” violation that resulted within the dying of a rabbit, and in the present day PETA filed a criticism with the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, which funnels extra analysis cash to JHU than to some other college within the nation.
JHU’s obscene incompetence and neglect have resulted in a number of different violations of federal animal welfare rules. A pig subjected to a coronary heart experiment was discovered to have two damaged elbows. Pigs have been denied ache aid, and experimenters used an unsterile approach when chopping into monkeys’ skulls, inflicting severe infections and finally killing the animals. The college additionally failed for years to acquire correct permits to make use of owls in invasive and lethal mind experiments after which skirted Maryland regulation to proceed harming and killing these birds.
JHU should redirect its sources towards fashionable, non-animal analysis strategies by adopting PETA’s Analysis Modernization Deal.
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