PETA Global 2018 Issue 2

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PETA Tells NIH to Stop Sewing Mice Together Since 2015, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has squandered more than $300,000 of American taxpayers’ money on cruel sepsis experiments at the University of Virginia. In these hideous procedures, mice are sewn together and then given a massive infection – even though NIH has determined that such experiments have no benefit to humans. Please join PETA in calling on the US government to end them.

Chris Mears: © @JackGuyPhotography • Pig: © iStock.com/Nguyen Minh Loc • Octopus: © iStock.com/wrangel

Olympian Makes a Big Splash for Dolphins In PETA UK’s ad campaign against “swim with dolphin” attractions, Olympic diving champion Chris Mears highlights the cruelty of holding marine mammals captive in chemically treated pools, which can result in premature death.

Take Action Now Add your voice by going to PETA.org/NIHMice today.

Sexual Predator, Animal Abuser Banned USA

USA

PETA Catches Toronto Restaurant Cutting Up Live Octopuses

John Hagmann was once paid millions in taxpayer dollars to maim and kill pigs in the crude military trauma training exercises that he devised decades ago. But once PETA exposed the cruelty, his house of cards came tumbling down. First, the federal government stopped using his company after PETA publicized that he had sexually assaulted service members. Then, he lost his medical license in both Virginia and Washington state. Now, following another PETA complaint, the North Carolina Medical Board has barred him from practicing medicine there.

After being tipped off by a whistleblower, a PETA observer documented an octopus being pulled from a tank, tossed onto a cutting board, and pinned down while a chef at Marado Sushi in Toronto hacked off the tentacles, which were then served – still writhing – as a Korean dish called “sannakji.” PETA filed a complaint with the Ontario SPCA, which agreed that octopuses are protected by anti-cruelty statutes, and – for perhaps the first time ever – defended invertebrates by informing the restaurant that it was breaking the law.

Take Action Now Unfortunately, restaurants continue to chop off and serve the arms and legs of live

Take Action Now Please visit PETA.org/BEST to send an e-mail urging your congressional representatives to support the Battlefield Excellence through Superior Training (BEST) Practices Act, which would phase out the use of animals in military medical training drills.

octopuses, which causes them enormous pain. Please demand that Marado Sushi, Gal’s Sushi, and other establishments drop live animals from their menus entirely, by visiting PETA.org/EatenAlive .

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