Kategorie: Animals

Just weeks after PETA wrote to Roswell Mayor Dennis Kintigh urging him to halt the Spring River Park & Zoo’s plans to acquire additional animals, a bear who was recently moved to the facility escaped, reportedly by squeezing through a chain-link fence.

PETA shared numerous animal welfare concerns about the roadside zoo with Kintigh, including that a beaver had escaped from an enclosure and was apparently never found, animals appeared not to have received adequate veterinary care on numerous occasions, and the facility had failed to take virtually any steps to improve animals’ well-being, as promised in the city’s 2018 Master Plan. PETA reiterated its offer to make a significant donation toward improving conditions for the animals in exchange for permission to arrange for the two black bears at Spring River to be placed in an accredited sanctuary, but Roswell officials refused, sentencing the animals to a miserable, archaic concrete pit.

Below, please find a statement from PETA Foundation Deputy General Counsel for Captive Animal Law Enforcement Brittany Peet:

Roswell city officials blew off PETA’s offer to help move two black bears out of its concrete pits and into sanctuaries and blew off PETA’s warning that adding more animals at the Spring River Park & Zoo would be a disaster, and now, a bear temporarily housed there has escaped from a woefully inadequate enclosure that no bear expert would condone. Enough is enough. It’s time for this roadside zoo to stop pretending that it’s going to modernize someday and start preparing to shut down now.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Please see statement from Dr. Alka Chandna, PhD, PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Cases statement regarding Vanderbilt University’s Official Warning from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its violations of federal animal welfare regulations.

A just-released federal report obtained by PETA reveals that Vanderbilt University has received an Official Warning from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its violations of federal animal welfare regulations. The warning won’t undo the trauma and agony suffered by animals in Vanderbilt’s laboratories, where four guinea pigs died during failed intubation and ventilator testing in which the animals were not fully anesthetized and were likely handled carelessly—but it shows Vanderbilt should get out of the dirty, bloody animal experimentation business and redirect its resources toward modern, non-animal research methodologies that will actually help humans.

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Please see statement from Dr. Alka Chandna, PhD, PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Cases statement regarding CU-Boulder’s Official Warning from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its violations of federal animal welfare regulations.

A just-released federal report obtained by PETA reveals that the University of Colorado–Boulder has received an Official Warning from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its violations of federal animal welfare regulations. The warning won’t undo the trauma and agony suffered by voles in CU-Boulder’s laboratories, where two prairie voles died of thirst when their water bottle malfunctioned and no one noticed and a meadow vole strangled to death after their head became trapped between implements in the vole’s cage—but it shows CU-Boulder should get out of the dirty, bloody animal experimentation business and redirect its resources toward modern, non-animal research methodologies that will actually help humans.

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Please see the following statement from PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Cases Dr. Alka Chandna, Ph.D., regarding an Official Warning issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the University of Texas–Austin for its violations of federal animal welfare regulations.

A just-released federal report obtained by PETA reveals that the University of Texas–Austin has received an Official Warning from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its violations of federal animal welfare regulations. The warning won’t undo the trauma and agony endured by animals in the school’s laboratories, where experimenters failed to give adequate pain relief to a monkey who needed it, a marmoset sustained injuries after another marmoset escaped because a cage hadn’t been properly secured, and a vole was improperly euthanized and found alive, likely in a pile of dead bodies—but it shows that UT-Austin should get out of the dirty, bloody animal experimentation business and redirect its resources toward modern, non-animal research methodologies that will actually help humans.

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Pointing out University of Washington (UW) animal laboratories’ long history of animal welfare violations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rejected UW’s attempt to erase recent citations for critical violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. One of the citations resulted from a complaint that PETA had submitted to the USDA in September.

The agency upheld citations against UW for failing to notice that a pigtail macaque was missing from her cage at the school’s Washington National Primate Research Center for 12 to 48 hours, without access to food or water. PETA uncovered this violation in documents obtained through an open records request. When the monkey was eventually found, she was suffering from dehydration. The USDA also upheld citations for another incident at the primate center in which a macaque broke two locks on a set of cages and escaped, along with his cagemate, into a room with other monkeys, sustaining injuries to their hands and fingers, and for UW’s failure to monitor rabbits for an entire weekend, as required by federal regulations.

Despite the severity of the violations, UW attorneys sent a 54-page appeal to the USDA complaining that the university should not be cited, in part because it had taken “corrective action” after the incidents occurred. In response, the agency’s director of animal welfare operations, Dr. Robert Gibbens, noted that the three critical violations had occurred over a span of just nine months, writing in a letter to UW that such a record was “not indicative of a facility that is demonstrating success at preventing critical animal welfare issues.”

“UW can’t excuse its appalling record of negligence, so it tries instead to hush it up,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “The public that funds the Washington National Primate Research Center has a right to know about its multitude of flagrant violations and that monkeys suffer as a result.”

USDA documents are available upon request. PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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