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A marine park that’s known for animal suffering and death isn’t a place for a party—but some schools didn’t get the memo. Some still think it’s OK to dance the night away next to frustrated, lonely animals who live in misery 24/7.
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Please see PETA Vice President Shalin Gala’s statement regarding an experiment at Tufts University involving amputating frogs’ legs to see whether they could be regrown:
Hacking off the legs of sensitive and complex frogs in a laboratory, as experimenters at Tufts University are doing, is just torture. In addition, frog anatomy and physiology are drastically different from those of humans. Studies show that a staggering 90% of basic research—most of which involves animals, like the type of experiments conducted at Tufts—fails to lead to treatments for humans. For millions of people living with the loss of a limb to have actual hope for treatments, experimenters should amputate their plans to expand these tests to mammals and instead focus on superior, human-relevant technology, as detailed in PETA’s Research Modernization Deal.
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Please see the following statement from PETA Senior Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo regarding San Antonio’s proposal that $10 million of the city’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) fund—meant to help those in the community affected by the COVID-19 pandemic—be given to Texas Biomedical Research Institute’s Southwest National Primate Research Laboratory:
ARPA money should be used as it was intended: to address community needs related to COVID-19. It should not fund cruelty to animals and failed science. Texas Biomedical Research Institute already receives tens of millions of dollars in federal funding and profits from one of the most exclusive private clubs in San Antonio, The Argyle. City residents already made it clear during the city bond program proposal that they do not support using their tax dollars to fund Texas Biomed. This funding—all of it—should support those in the city who are truly in need, not a facility where monkeys have escaped, died by accidental strangulation and suffered from frostbite.
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