Live Dogs Abused in Heart Attack Tests in OSU Laboratory: Please send sample message, sign petition

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• Send an email using your own words or SAMPLE MESSAGE

From PETA
For almost 30 years, Ohio State University (OSU) experimenter George Billman has used taxpayer dollars to cut dogs open and induce heart attacks in them. He inserts a cuff around an artery, sews the dogs back up, then forces the dogs to run on a treadmill. He then tightens the cuff to block blood flow to the heart, causing a heart attack.

His conclusion—that exercise strengthens the heart—has been common knowledge for decades. Of 768 dogs used by Billman, a staggering 256 of them died—either on the operating table or in the days following the surgery—before he could even test his “hypothesis.”

PETA reviewed the records for 10 dogs recently used by Billman and found evidence that the animals suffered immensely. Dog #3017—a brown hound dog with a white face—was operated on and forced to endure three heart attacks in Billman’s laboratory. Two days after her third heart attack, she died in her cement and steel cage—alone and in pain.

Please send a personal e-mail to OSU’s assistant vice president for research communications,  Earle Holland, and respectfully urge him to stop these cruel and deadly experiments on dogs. Also, send Holland a message through his Facebook page by clicking on the “Send Earle Holland a Message” link, and call his office at 614-292-8384 to make sure that your voice is heard.

WHERE TO SEND YOUR EMAIL:

holland.8@osu.edu

SAMPLE EMAIL (courtesy of PETA):

Subject:
Please Stop Cruel Heart Attack Experiments on Dogs

Body:
I was horrified to learn that Ohio State University has been conducting invasive experiments on dogs in which the animals are cut open, have cuffs inserted around an artery, and are then forced to run on a treadmill until they have heart attacks.

It’s also shocking that these experiments have been happening for almost 30 years in an effort to conclude that exercise strengthens the heart—something that has been common knowledge for decades.

I urge you to put an end to these cruel experiments immediately.

NAME

Editor’s Note/Update

I received the following message as a response to the email I sent this afternoon, I suspect everyone else has, too:

• On 8/19/10 5:14 PM, Earle Holland wrote: PETA has once again decided to use inaccurate information and claims to condemn Ohio State University research as a means to stimulate its own fund-raising. We have repeatedly tried to correct the misconception that PETA continues to promulgate. Accurate information about the research in question has been posted on the web for years and interested individuals are advised to review it for their own education. That information can be found at http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/billmannew.htm.

So I went to that site. A glance at the provided tome of self-gratification does nothing but identify Mr. Billman as the monster that he is, I fail to understand the legitimacy of his actions based on those speciesist, self-serving points. Does he walk on water in his mind? Because that list that does nothing but exemplify the sham that vivisection is: can we all rise up to give Mr. Billman a hand for pursuing such a noble, self-absorbed “profession” ? Honestly, if they were not so depraved, the banal excuses meant to promote social approval would be laughable: it’s culturally rewarding to “altruistically” sacrifice one’s life for the betterment of mankind, thank you for being such a beacon in these ill dark times. Oh, wait, those points only serve to deflect attention from the savagery inflicted on animals; your use of glorified, heroic rhetoric meant to incite metaphorical applause from the “stupid masses” really only demonstrates pathetically-inadequate rationale.

Cardiac disease? The FACT is that cardiac disease would be substantially reduced in the absence of animal flesh consumption; numerous cancers have been proven to be linked to diets that include animal flesh and secretions, don’t PREACH about the importance of CARDIAC research when we ALL KNOW that DIET and bad habits, including alcohol and smoking, are what CAUSE CARDIAC DISEASE.  Admit it, this nation in particular is FAT on FLESH and is diseased because of it. Rather than dolly about maiming and murdering animals who have NOTHING to do with your obsession and self-love, you should behave ETHICALLY, ENVIRONMENTALLY, and MORALLY by LEAVING ANIMALS ALONE and instead endorsing PREVENTION: now THAT would strengthen the heart.

Oh, but prevention is neither as financially nor sadistically satisfying, is it? What would be the fun in playing God if you couldn’t KILL while making money?

I have no prejudices against obese people. I have a problem, however, with people who deliberately, complicity gorge on animal flesh knowing the depravity involved and then who turn to charlatans who continue to kill animals trying to cure such!

And another point: “only 30 dogs are used annually”.  USED.  Exactly!  In other words, 30 are unnecessarily mutilated, subjected to pain and misery, and then murdered, and to attempt validation using an ONLY qualifier is SUCH an outlandishly malignant assertion that words almost fail me. Almost.  Imagine if ONLY 30 people are killed in a traffic accident as the result of a drunk driver, and your entire family was included, how would you feel to such unnecessary death?  Would it be fine for the defense to say, “well, it was ONLY 30 people…”

Each year in the United States, two million people fall victim to unanticipated severe reactions as the result of medications that were previously determined to be SAFE as the result of testing on animals. Those two million people react with pain, debilitation, and death.

But, hey, it only happens to two million people.

Oh, and I never gave PETA any money.

What an utter tosspot.

SR

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