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I just got this letter in my email the other day. I usually don't really open this as I don't have time to read it, but I opened this one since the subject pertained to university test labs. I just want to encourage everyone to take a look at this letter and to make an ethical choice when applying to pharmacy or medical schools.

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] Dear Crystal,

America's universities are supposed to be centers of learning and enlightenment. So why are there hidden laboratories on nearly every university campus? Inside these labs, scared animals are kept locked up and are killed in painful, archaic, and scientifically valueless experiments.

University experimenters are committing astonishing atrocities to animals. But PETA is uncovering the horrors inside these "off-limits" university laboratories that, apparently, no one else could investigate. Using the evidence we've uncovered, we are pressuring the federal government to penalize the experimenters and to provide oversight.

We are counting on the support of friends like you to keep this incredibly important work going strong. Through our special Stop Animal Testing Challenge, PETA has raised $88,070 to come to the aid of animals trapped in labs and stop cruel experiments. But we need your help to hit our $150,000 challenge goal. With the lives of so many vulnerable animals at stake, I urge you to be as generous as you can afford to be.

Please make a donation online now to help stop universities from using animals in painful experiments. For a limited time, your tax-deductible gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar through a matching grant from the estate of a generous PETA member.

Thanks to supporters like you, PETA recently discovered that three university laboratories were abusing animals in the following ways:

• At the University of Colorado at Denver, a whistleblower led PETA to uncover that an experimenter had operated on cats without administering adequate anesthesia. The cats had their backs cut open, and a machine was used to apply pressure to their tiny spinal cords. Remarkably, the experimenters have been killing cats for invasive procedures for more than 15 years, using taxpayer funds through federal research grants.
• At the University of Washington (UW), PETA found that experimenters who had bolted metal chambers in monkeys' skulls and inserted wires into their eyes were also conducting unauthorized surgeries. Some monkeys who survived were malnourished and psychologically damaged. Using this evidence, PETA convinced the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to revoke its grant from UW—this is one of the first times that the federal government has done so because of animal welfare violations.
• The University of Connecticut has been cited for 20 violations of the Animal Welfare Act and fined more than $5,000 for abusing monkeys in cruel brain experiments as a direct result of PETA complaints. Since 2000, UConn has been cited for more than 200 violations of the law for cruelty to monkeys, cats, gerbils, guinea pigs, and rabbits.

Universities know that PETA won't rest until we root out and end cruel animal experiments like these. With your support,PETA will be able to work with more whistleblowers and send more investigators into these labs to expose the truth—and see that the perpetrators are held accountable.

If you give online today during this special Stop Animal Testing Challenge, your generous contribution—and your impact—will be doubled.

Thank you for bringing hope to animals in desperate situations.

For all animals,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

P.S. Right now, huge numbers of animals are being maimed and killed in horrifying experiments on campuses. Many of these bogus tests continue only so that universities can rake in government grants. PETA urgently needs your support to stop animal testing in university labs. For a limited time, your gift will be matched, so please don't wait. .



Thanks,

Crystal

 

[eelo]

PeTA is a bunch of boneheads. The blind followers will do everything Ingrid Newkirk asks them to do, in the hope of getting as much exposure and limelight as possible. If Ingrid feels they aren't getting enough media coverage, she sends out an order for people to dump red paint on the statue outside the Ronald McDonald House, or to give away graphic, bloody "picture books" to little kids.

The worst punishment for PeTA is when people to stop talking about them; it makes them inconsequential, irrelevant.

Ingrid Newkirk is an ass.

 

[nerv12345]

i agree. i'm a vegetarian and i don't support the treatment of animals in this country, but PETA uses childish and unprofessional methods to prove their points--which ultimately discredits them.

 

[confettiflyer]

PETA is a bunch of ******s



i'm in PETA...People for the Eating of Tasty Animals 😛