Urgent Action Needed! Stop Live Pig Lab

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-04-23 20:52:00 UTC
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This coming Monday, April 27, an unknown (to me) number of pigs are set to be injured and then killed in a trauma training course at North Dakota State University, in cooperation with MeritCare Hospital, reports the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). You have my apologies that I somehow missed this action alert before now, but you do have a few days still to urge the university to abandon its cruel use of live animals in favor of humane (and superior) tools such as TraumaMan, in this training and in all future training.

PCRM has been working without pause to end, one by one, the remaining programs that still use and kill pigs, dogs, and other animals for trauma training and medical student education, and they've had success (e.g., you may recall the post on March 1announcing the end of dog labs at the University of Michigan). Let's hope this can be another success.

Sign the Change.org petition (with letter provided) here. Also see PCRM's campaign page for more.

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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