Saving Animals from Medical School Labs

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-03-01 07:38:00 UTC
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Late in the game in terms of the campaign, I was planning early on Thursday to talk about the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's effort to stop the dog labs at the University of Michigan. But I was distracted into writing about something else, and it's best that I was distracted--because my post would have been obsolete within mere hours! Early Thursday evening, I received the e-mail many did, announcing that the 20,000+ e-mails sent already to the University of Michigan calling for an end to their cruel use of dogs in their trauma training lab had been successful: the school announced on Thursday that "it will use only simulators in the Advanced Trauma Life Support course. . . . No dogs or other animals will be killed in the school’s ATLS course, according to a university statement."

And then, though I planned to talk more about this today and about the PCRM's next campaign in its continuing effort to stop live animal labs, when I opened up my Google Reader this morning, I saw that Mary at Animal Person had already posted on this topic earlier this morning! Great minds and all that. So I send you there:

Be Part of a Victory for Pigs

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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