PETA Global Issue 3

P U T T I N G V I V I S E C T I O N U N D E R T H E M I C R O S C O P E

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I nside laboratories at the University of in place, and left them that way for more than eight weeks. Both rabbits lost significant weight – a sign of severe pain and distress. A PETA investigation revealed that other animals at Pitt were denied adequate pain relief for severe wounds, drowned when cages flooded, and died of thirst when their water supplies were cut off. A staffer tore off a Pittsburgh (Pitt), an experimenter severed the knee ligaments of two young rabbits named Jack and Daniels. He contorted their legs into an excruciatingly painful position, wired them Animal Experiments Hurt Everyone Mad, Bad Science

... and a Sex Scandal!

mouse’s toes while prying the animal from a cage lid. Another worker slowly suffocated mice in a plastic bag, and when questioned about it, he laughed. PETA has conducted investigations into dozens of laboratories and exposed atrocities like this in universities, hospitals, product testing laboratories, and breeding facilities. The few laws on the books offer little protection, and virtually nothing – from burning a pig with a red-hot metal bar to starving monkeys – is illegal. Millions of animals are killed, and vast sums of money are wasted – even though we know that more than 90% of studies on animals fail to lead to therapies that help humans.

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