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January 19, 2023
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Lubbock, Texas – Please see the next assertion from PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna concerning a posted inspection report and quotation issued by the U.S. Division of Agriculture towards Texas Tech College for a important violation of federal animal welfare rules. Based on the report, the hose supplying water to a pen confining 4 piglets grew to become disconnected for an “unknown time period.” Laboratory workers solely seen the problem after the piglets “appeared skinny” and three had been noticed to be “much less energetic.” Though water was then given to the animals, one piglet had been denied water for therefore lengthy that the animal “started to show neurologic indicators of salt toxicity and seizures” and was euthanized.
Texas Tech College’s negligence and incompetence represent animal abuse, and PETA has filed a criticism with the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH), calling on the company to show off the cash spigot to the varsity. If Texas Tech laboratory workers can’t bear in mind to present piglets one thing as primary as water, the college has no enterprise experimenting on these good, social, and delicate animals. The agony of dying of thirst is identical whether or not the sufferer is a pig or a human.
Texas Tech obtained greater than $5 million in taxpayer cash from NIH final 12 months, however such largesse brings with it a authorized expectation that the college will adjust to minimal animal welfare legal guidelines. Texas Tech ought to modernize its analysis program by leaving merciless and archaic experiments on animals behind and utilizing solely subtle, human-relevant analysis strategies as an alternative.
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