US Pentagon Funding Horrific Aussie Lab Experiments
PETA US has discovered that the US Department of War has funded experimenters in numerous international laboratories to burn rats, give dogs heart disease, cut open octopuses, and more in cruel and pointless tests.
In Australia, the University of Melbourne has received nearly US$700,000 from the Pentagon to implant magnetic stents into major brain veins of sheep in experiments meant to stimulate and monitor brain activity, before killing the animals and dissecting their brain and blood vessel tissues.
James Cook University has also received Pentagon funds, nearly US$600,000 to shave rats and plunge them into near-boiling water, inflicting third-degree burns on at least 30 per cent of their bodies. The experimenter then cuts out half of the animals’ livers to induce uncontrolled internal bleeding and keeps them alive, conscious, and suffering for 24 hours before killing them.
And the University of Queensland in St Lucia, has received more than US$1.2 million from the Pentagon to subject pigs to severe traumatic hemorrhage.
PETA is calling on the institutions to end this wasteful and irrelevant testing. Millions are being spent to burn, poison, mutilate, and kill animals in cruel and fiscally imprudent experiments that offer no benefit to human health. To advance research for humans as well as spare sentient animals, this funding urgently needs to be redirected toward state-of-the-art, animal free research.
PETA US is urging the US Secretary of War to cut waste, fraud, and abuse by banning the Pentagon from funding foreign experiments on animals. Here in Australia, we can urge universities to invest in modern teaching methods and ban archaic tests on animals.
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