URGENT: Ask NIH to Stop Funding the Ivy League’s Animal Abuse

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From PCRM

A dead puppy was found under a floor grate at the University of Pennsylvania. Baboons were burned and blistered in an experiment at Yale. PCRM’s new report uncovers shocking animal abuse at all eight Ivy League schools.

PCRM evaluated the Ivy League universities on their adherence to the minimal standards of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and their stewardship of taxpayer funding through the National Institutes of Health. The report finds that all the universities had disturbingly high numbers of AWA violations. Animals at the schools suffered injury and death from various causes, including unauthorized surgical experiments.

At Harvard, a cage was sent through a mechanical cage washer with a primate still inside. He was found dead. These are the lethal conditions he had to endure: The washer’s water temperature reaches 180 to 200 F. Detergent and acid or alkaline wash solutions were pumped into the cage. The wash cycle’s duration lasted 15 to 20 minutes. At times, its water pressure was the same as a riot-control water cannon, according to product specifications.

“Federal inspectors at Ivy League laboratories should not be uncovering burned baboons and a dead puppy under a floor grate,” says John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., a PCRM physician and former Harvard Medical School faculty member. “Prestigious research institutions getting millions of dollars in grant money should be held accountable for neglect and abuse of animals used in experiments and should commit to replacing animals in research.”

Based on a PCRM scoring system that weighs the number and severity of violations, the Ivy League schools were ranked from worst to least bad in the Ivy League Research Misconduct Report Card:

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ivy league schools
tradition and prestige
still in the stone age
with animals, beseiged
this must be stopped
and until that time
these sadists
should not get
a dime!!!!

Karen Lyons Kalmenson