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UNC make me want to cry. Heartless bastards.
This is disgusting and as human beings they should be ashamed and made to live without food and water and sanitary housing too. I'm not a animal rights fanatic....but come on guys.
UNC DIDN"T LEARN ITS LESSON
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released its formal report, which details serious violations of federal law that were documented in the animal laboratories of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) during an 11-month PETA undercover investigation in 2003.
In its report, the NIH corroborates violations caught on videotape by PETA's investigator, including the following:
Seriously sick and injured animals were left to die without veterinary care or euthanasia.
Mice had oversized tumors that had ulcerated and burst.
Suffering animals were denied pain medication after surgeries.
There was insufficient staff to properly care for animals.
There was inadequate training of experimenters and husbandry and veterinary staff.
Animals were denied food, water, and sanitary housing.
There was improper record-keeping.
Baby animals died because they were weaned too early.
UNC failed to promptly report animal care problems to the NIH.
Internal policies and federal regulations were not adequately enforced.
Experiments on animals were conducted using expired protocols.
Animals lived in extremely crowded conditions, leading them to die of cannibalism and suffocation.
Animals' toes were amputated for identification purposes.
More animals were used in experiments than the protocols permitted.
Experimenters failed to provide environmental enrichment to various species.
Experimenters failed to adequately monitor their staff and animal procedures.
Given that the NIH issued an earlier report in 2004 citing UNC for identical infractions, which were documented during a 2001-2002 PETA undercover investigation at UNC, it is obvious that UNC is completely unwilling or unable to provide even minimal care for the hundreds of thousands of animals that it uses in experiments. Even more unacceptable: Even though UNC has twice been caught blatantly violating federal regulations, the NIH refuses to punish the university and all the while continues to pump hundreds of millions of federal tax dollars into UNC's research programs annually.
You Can Help!
PETA has written to the director of the NIH, Elias Zerhouni, and demanded that the government agency uphold its legal obligation to penalize labs that chronically violate NIH policies and revoke its funding of animal experiments at UNC. Please send similar correspondence to the NIH:
Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director
National Institutes of Health
1 Center Dr., Bldg. 1, Rm. 126
Bethesda, MD 20892-0148
301-496-2433
301-402-2700 (fax)
execsec1@od.nih.gov
This is disgusting and as human beings they should be ashamed and made to live without food and water and sanitary housing too. I'm not a animal rights fanatic....but come on guys.
UNC DIDN"T LEARN ITS LESSON
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released its formal report, which details serious violations of federal law that were documented in the animal laboratories of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) during an 11-month PETA undercover investigation in 2003.
In its report, the NIH corroborates violations caught on videotape by PETA's investigator, including the following:
Seriously sick and injured animals were left to die without veterinary care or euthanasia.
Mice had oversized tumors that had ulcerated and burst.
Suffering animals were denied pain medication after surgeries.
There was insufficient staff to properly care for animals.
There was inadequate training of experimenters and husbandry and veterinary staff.
Animals were denied food, water, and sanitary housing.
There was improper record-keeping.
Baby animals died because they were weaned too early.
UNC failed to promptly report animal care problems to the NIH.
Internal policies and federal regulations were not adequately enforced.
Experiments on animals were conducted using expired protocols.
Animals lived in extremely crowded conditions, leading them to die of cannibalism and suffocation.
Animals' toes were amputated for identification purposes.
More animals were used in experiments than the protocols permitted.
Experimenters failed to provide environmental enrichment to various species.
Experimenters failed to adequately monitor their staff and animal procedures.
Given that the NIH issued an earlier report in 2004 citing UNC for identical infractions, which were documented during a 2001-2002 PETA undercover investigation at UNC, it is obvious that UNC is completely unwilling or unable to provide even minimal care for the hundreds of thousands of animals that it uses in experiments. Even more unacceptable: Even though UNC has twice been caught blatantly violating federal regulations, the NIH refuses to punish the university and all the while continues to pump hundreds of millions of federal tax dollars into UNC's research programs annually.
You Can Help!
PETA has written to the director of the NIH, Elias Zerhouni, and demanded that the government agency uphold its legal obligation to penalize labs that chronically violate NIH policies and revoke its funding of animal experiments at UNC. Please send similar correspondence to the NIH:
Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director
National Institutes of Health
1 Center Dr., Bldg. 1, Rm. 126
Bethesda, MD 20892-0148
301-496-2433
301-402-2700 (fax)
execsec1@od.nih.gov