Kategorie: Animals

To honor the hundreds of chickens who were injured or killed in three truck crashes that took place across Georgia over a five-day period, PETA has placed a sky-high memorial a half-mile from the site of the second crash, reminding everyone that the victims were thinking, feeling individuals. The crashes occurred on Athens Highway north of A.L. Mangum Road on September 22, on Atlanta Highway in Gainesville on September 25, and at the intersection of N. Duval and E. Main streets in Claxton on September 27.

“The victims of these crashes died in agony, while the terrified survivors lived just long enough to be trucked off to a slaughterhouse,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA urges everyone to go vegan to stop this cruelty and get these deadly trucks off the streets.”

While the group planned a memorial for the victims of the September 22 crash, within days two more crashes occurred and the tribute was updated to include the chickens who suffered in all three crashes. PETA points out that such incidents are shockingly common—at least 51 animal-related accidents have occurred already this year.

Chickens killed for their flesh are crowded by the tens of thousands into filthy sheds and bred to grow such unnaturally large upper bodies that their legs often become crippled under the weight. Those used for egg production are confined to cramped barns, where each bird has no more than a square foot of space. At the slaughterhouse, their throats are cut, often while they’re still conscious, and many are scalded to death in defeathering tanks.

Each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year daily suffering and terrifying deaths; reduces their own risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and obesity; and dramatically shrinks their carbon footprint.

PETA’s memorial is located at 1791 Atlanta Hwy. in Gainesville.

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, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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PETA is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the deaths of 13 beagles—who were killed in a fire authorities believe was deliberate—at an outdoor dog kennel in the woods near Roanoke Rapids Lake on Sunday, October 22. Only one beagle held in this section of the pens survived.

Would you please share this reward offer with your audience? It may mean the difference in identifying the person or people who killed these dogs.

“Thirteen helpless, terrified beagles burned to death inside a kennel, unable to escape the flames surrounding them,” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA urges anyone with information to come forward immediately before their killer harms anyone else.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—cautions everyone to keep dogs indoors as members of the family and never leave them crated or restrained and unattended outdoors.

Tipsters should contact Sgt. W. Killian with the Northampton County Sheriff’s Department at 252-534-2611.

For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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Records obtained by PETA show that UGA’s “University Research Animal Resources (URAR) and Researcher Pandemic Service Reduction Plan” directed experimenters to prepare to “[c]ull animals not needed.” These records were received in response to PETA’s request for experimentation protocols concerning animals euthanized at the school as a result of circumstances related to the pandemic. The records included two NIH-funded studies on mice conducted by UGA experimenter Wendy Watford that were apparently deemed unnecessary. The mice were euthanized—even though UGA Vice President for Research David Lee claimed that no animals who were to be experimented on were killed during the pandemic.

PETA’s letter also questions why NIH would ever fund nonessential studies. It follows PETA’s prior complaints about related killing sprees at 14 other universities. At least 25,000 animals were killed in these schools’ laboratories during this period—representing more than $9 million in NIH waste.

Brown mice crowd on top of each other in a small container. Photo: PETA

“University labs across the country deemed thousands of animals ‘unnecessary’ to their research, which begs the question why any of these animals were bought, bred, and experimented on in the first place,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is urging NIH to investigate this shameful mass killing spree and is calling on universities to adopt superior, animal-free research so that animals’ lives and taxpayers’ dollars are no longer wasted.”

Other NIH-funded institutions newly identified by PETA for euthanizing animals deemed extraneous to experiments during the pandemic include Ferris State University, Montana State University, Penn State, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, Tulane University, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and West Virginia University.

In laboratories across the U.S. each year, tens of millions of animals are poisoned, burned, cut into, emotionally traumatized, and infected with diseases while they endure extreme stress and frustration. Studies show that 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals, fails to lead to treatments for humans—yet NIH spends nearly half its annual budget on animal studies.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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PETA is calling on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate and act on newly obtained public records showing that eight universities—including Ferris State University—killed animals deemed nonessential to experiments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PETA’s letter also urges NIH to stop wasting taxpayer money on animal experiments. It follows PETA’s prior complaints about related killing sprees at 14 other universities. At least 25,000 animals were killed in these schools’ laboratories during this period—representing more than $9 million in NIH waste.

PETA received records from Ferris State following public records requests showing that animals at the university deemed nonessential and assigned to different experiments were euthanized during modified pandemic operations.

A March 25, 2020, e-mail from Ferris State Animal Care Facility Director Richard Marble states, “I am currently drawing down the last of the colonies .… After today there will be no animals left in the facility.”

An e-mail thread from March 19, 2020, with the subject line “Animal Care Going Forward in Light of Yesterdays [sic] Message,” a Ferris State staff member, whose name is redacted, writes, “I am fine with euthanizing all animals at this point. All of the male rats will be too large and there is no reason to continue to maintain them. Nor the frog or turtle.” That staff member adds, “In terms of my animals, I can always purchase new rats later.”

In an e-mail thread from March 23, 2020, under the subject line “animal care facility essential staff,” a Ferris State staff member, whose name is also redacted, writes, “It is our plan to have all animals euthanized and the facility shut down by the end of the week.”

Brown mice crowd on top of each other in a small container. Photo: PETA

“University labs across the country deemed thousands of animals ‘unnecessary’ to their research, which begs the question why any of these animals were bought, bred, and experimented on in the first place,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is urging NIH to investigate this shameful mass killing spree and is calling on universities to adopt superior, animal-free research so that animals’ lives and taxpayers’ dollars are no longer wasted.”

In hellish laboratories across the U.S. each year, tens of millions of animals are poisoned, burned, cut into, emotionally traumatized, and infected with diseases while they endure extreme stress and frustration. Studies show that 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals, fails to lead to treatments for humans—yet NIH spends nearly half its annual budget on animal studies.

Other NIH-funded institutions newly identified by PETA for apparently euthanizing animals deemed extraneous to experiments during the pandemic include Montana State University, Penn State, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, Tulane University, the University of Georgia, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and West Virginia University.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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A newly released undercover video from PETA shows rare behind-the-screens footage of a very young Thoroughbred horse’s injury and euthanasia on the track. The filly, who was offered for sale at the Fasig-Tipton auction in Maryland, was being forced to sprint faster than she ever would in a race. These frenzied time trials are conducted at all auctions of 2-year-old Thoroughbreds despite the well-documented dangers to young, inexperienced horses.

Today, PETA sent a proposal to the heads of the two auction companies, Fasig-Tipton Co. Inc. President and CEO Boyd Browning Jr. and Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. President Tom Ventura, recommending creative but simple reforms that would make these “under-tack shows,” as the timed sprints are called, at auctions safer for the juvenile horses forced to take part in them.

PETA’s proposal advises holding the events in the fall rather than the spring—so the young horses have more time to develop—and switching to the more sensible four- or five-furlong workouts, which are the preferred standard distances in timed morning “breezes” for horses training for real races, rather than the current one-furlong dead sprints that are so dangerous to the fragile juveniles.

“Forcing physically immature horses to sprint at reckless speeds just to inflate auction prices is greedy and foolish,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA urges auction houses to adopt these simple, reasonable changes that will protect horses without hurting auction companies’ bottom line.”

At under-tack shows, juvenile horses, some who haven’t reached their biological second birthday, are forced to run an eighth or a quarter of a mile as fast as possible at speeds they’ll never again reach in their racing careers—if they survive. The sprints, in addition to damaging the animals’ developing bodies and risking fatal injuries, are a poor metric for judging their abilities since they don’t resemble timed workouts that horses regularly run in training for real races. PETA points out that many industry leaders, including owner Mike Repole and bloodstock agent Rollin Baugh, have spoken out against these dangerous and unnecessary speed tests.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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