PETA Global Issue 3

“The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”

Are You as Ethical as a Rat or a Monkey?

– Jeremy Bentham

PETA Out to Stop Unimaginable Suffering Case in point: Video footage shot inside Texas A&M University and obtained by PETA shows golden retrievers and other dogs – deliberately bred to develop canine muscular dystrophy – cowering on hard, slatted floors. Their leg muscles have wasted away so that they can barely walk, as have their jaw and throat muscles, making it almost impossible for them to chew or swallow. After 35 years of these cruel experiments, there is, perhaps not surprisingly, still no treatment for muscular dystrophy in humans, let alone a cure. Then There Was the Sexual Abuse It shouldn’t come as any surprise that people involved in abusing animals for a living don’t always stop there. John Hagmann, president of Deployment Medicine International (DMI), the US military’s leading contractor for archaic trauma training – in which live pigs and goats were shot, stabbed, and killed – sexually abused young soldiers for years. He gave drugs and alcohol to trainees, performed a rectal exam on a student, instructed another student to perform a penis and rectal exam on him (which he videotaped), and manipulated and photographed a drunk student’s penis among

other instances of abuse – all apparently for his own sexual gratification.

Protesters: © iStock.com/Rawpixel | Monkey: © iStock.com/edelmar

When given the choice between a choco ate treat and freeing a trapped fellow rat, most rats choose to free the other rat. Monkeys went without food for up to 12 days when they realized that pulling a lever to get food would also deliver a painful shock to another monkey. By contrast, studies on humans showed that many would give other people what they believed to be severe shocks if simply told to do so by a person in authority. It appears that rats and monkeys could teach humans a thing or two about behaving decently.

After PETA uncovered documentation of the misconduct and filed complaints, the military investigated, DMI was barred from receiving any federal contracts, and the Virginia Board of Medicine revoked Hagmann’s medical license. Let the Dogs Out! Actually, Let All the Animals Out … PETA has exposed laboratory workers who screamed and cursed at cowering dogs and cats, blasted them with pressure washers and bleach, and slammed a cat into a fence, among other examples of abuse. That’s why PETA is hard at work – in the halls of Congress and government agencies; in laboratories, classrooms, and scientific conferences; in corporate boardrooms; and on the streets – fighting to end all experiments on animals.

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Even the threat of Category 4 Hurricane Harvey didn™t halt PETA demonstrators™ efforts to shut down Texas A&M University™s cruel muscu ar dystrophy dog aboratory.

Take Action Now Please contact your government representatives (US readers, visit PETA.org/

Congress to send an e-mail to your congressional representatives) and demand that they cut all funding for experiments on animals and redirect the money toward superior non-animal methods.

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A SNAPSHOT OF TOP HISTORIC PETA VICTORIES 1980-2017

Silver Spring Monkeys seized and laboratory closed (both firsts in US history!)

The White House and the EPA spare 800,000 animals the ordeal of chemical toxicity testing

Year-long pesticide poisoning tests on dogs ended in the US; EU and Canada follow suit

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons stops killing animals for surgical training

US Army ends chemical-attack training on monkeys

Car-crash tests on animals ended worldwide

POM Wonderful, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Lipton, Barilla, and House Foods end all tests on animals

European Chemicals Agency saves up to 4.5 million animals from toxicity testing

National Institutes of Health ends infant-monkey maternal-separation experiments

US military bans shooting dogs and cats in wound laboratories

NASA drops plans to irradiate squirrel monkeys

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