Pigs in Milwaukee Need Your Help!
The Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine is asking the Medical College of Wisconsin to reconsider using pigs for a live animal lab on Monday, February 18th. If you’re in the Milwaukee area, your attendance at the protest would be greatly appreciated. If not, you can write a letter in support of these poor pigs.
From their site:
Despite determined efforts by PCRM members, concerned citizens, and a coalition of animal protection organizations led by the Wisconsin Humane Society, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is scheduled to hold another round of unnecessary animal labs in February 2008. For this year’s labs the school will use live pigs instead of dogs—despite past declarations by MCW representatives that pigs are poor subjects for this lab. This lateral move by MCW is a clear indication that the immense public pressure put on the school by thousands of individuals, PCRM, and the Wisconsin Humane Society can effect change. MCW has felt enormous pressure to change, and our efforts will continue.
Pigs are highly intelligent, social animals who have been shown to be more intelligent than dogs. Animal behavior experts agree, and scientific evidence suggests, that pigs are very smart, very sensitive animals.
Now it’s time to keep the pressure on MCW. Please let MCW know that using any animal in a live lab is cruel and unnecessary.
Call, e-mail, or write a letter to MCW president and CEO T. Michael Bolger, Department of Physiology chairman Allen Cowley Jr., Ph.D., and director of MCW’s pig lab Jean-Francois Liard, M.D., Ph.D., and politely ask them to end the school’s live animal lab program.
Contact information and even a form letter you can customize are included on PCRM’s site.
SASHA Farm has committed to give some of these pigs sanctuary here should the PCRM be successful in convincing the MCW to spare their lives. (Other sanctuaries have been asked as well, and all the pigs will have safe homes should MCW decide to do the right thing.) Please help us give them a chance at a long natural life!
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