Taxpayers Unwittingly Fund Animal Cruelty
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***Go to the link & click on TAKE ACTION to send an email to Philip Boudjouk, Ph.D. (NDSU’s vice president for research) to urge him to end the use of animals in NDSU’s ATLS program***
Pigs at North Dakota State University didn’t have anything to be thankful this November. PCRM asked Gov. John Hoeven to help permanently pardon pigs from the university’s trauma training course last month. But despite this request—and thousands of dollars in fines for previous animal welfare violations—live pigs at the university had tubes and needles inserted into their chest cavities and hearts.
In a letter sent to Hoeven, PCRM cardiologist John Pippin, M.D., asked for an immediate end to the school’s use of live animals in its Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) program. He also asked for an investigation into North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) more than 30 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
According to U.S. Department of Agriculture reports, these violations involved at least six instances of poor sanitation. One report stated: “NDSU failed to properly clean primary enclosures as evidenced by the accumulation and excessive build up of hair, urine (there was streams of urine emanating onto the floor) and sediment on the cages.”
Pigs at North Dakota State University didn’t have anything to be thankful this November. PCRM asked Gov. John Hoeven to help permanently pardon pigs from the university’s trauma training course last month. But despite this request—and thousands of dollars in fines for previous animal welfare violations—live pigs at the university had tubes and needles inserted into their chest cavities and hearts.
In a letter sent to Hoeven, PCRM cardiologist John Pippin, M.D., asked for an immediate end to the school’s use of live animals in its Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) program. He also asked for an investigation into North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) more than 30 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
According to U.S. Department of Agriculture reports, these violations involved at least six instances of poor sanitation. One report stated: “NDSU failed to properly clean primary enclosures as evidenced by the accumulation and excessive build up of hair, urine (there was streams of urine emanating onto the floor) and sediment on the cages.”
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