Columbia University Cruelty

[misanthropy]

A PETA investigation has revealed grotesque abuses to animals in laboratories at Columbia University, including baboons who were subjected to invasive surgeries and left to suffer and die in their cages without any painkillers. Please ask the NIH to look into the millions of dollars given to Columbia for cruel experiments that do not hold any promise for improvements to human health. Be sure to mention the fact that Columbia does not, with all the money that it gets, give these imprisoned primates any socialization or environmental enrichment at all, which it is required to do by law. Take a few minutes to review this Web site and you will understand the horrors that the animals at Columbia face every day. Click here (http://www.columbiacruelty.com/letters/NIHletter.pdf) to read the full PETA complaint to NIH's OLAW.

How can cruel and useless animal experiments be stopped? How much proof, how many scandalous cases have to be brought to the government's attention before it takes action against laboratories that believe they're above the laws of the government and the laws of ethics? It's up to us to get angry and active. If this story about animal suffering at prestigious Columbia University in New York City doesn't make you angry, nothing will. We would have known nothing about the sloppy, cruel goings-on at Columbia had it not been for the courage of one disillusioned veterinarian who grew weary of seeing animals dying in their cages. She dared to report the abuse to Columbia's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), but when she began to suffer repercussions for having done so and didn't see any noticeable improvement in animal care, she blew the whistle by contacting PETA.

Click here to read more about cruelty at Columbia University (http://www.columbiacruelty.com)

[Adams]

I just heard about this yesterday. It's really sad. :( :(

I thought people already knew that testing on monkeys and such was wrong. :umm: There are new studies all the time suggesting how smart they really are. I just don't understand how these "researchers" can justify themselves anymore. :(

[attackferret]

I have no idea how the researchers can justify themselves. I know when omni friends have mentioned that the reason that testing on and eating animals is totally cool due to the limited brain power of them, I have asked them how they feel about eating and/or performing experiments on the mentally retarded. Of course, then the mental prowess argument goes out the window, and they tell me that people are people, animals are animals, and we didn't work our way to the top of the food chain for nothing! :umm:

[madpogue]

Originally posted by attackferret
... and we didn't work our way to the top of the food chain for nothing! Two words: Roy Horn

[gladcow]

It became apparent to me that testing on animals had no validity when there was an Ebola outbreak and they got all worried and tested on monkeys and the monkeys died. Then a person accidently got infected, but survived. Turned out that it killed monkeys, but wasn't fatal to humans. So why do we still test these kinds of fatal pathogens on them???