EXPERIMENTATION ANIMALE A L'HOPITAL DE ST.LOUIS (USA)

Washington U. Gets Wake-Up (Cat) Call

Written by Jeff Mackey

01-26-2012

 

A new PETA ad campaign is rolling out in St. Louis to make sure that Washington University's faculty, staff, students, and supporters don't forget about the school's use of live cats for painful and terrifying medical training conducted in conjunction with St. Louis Children's Hospital.  

Washington University folks will be confronted by images of cats like those who have tubes forced down their throats in the university's Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course (most other PALS courses have upgraded to modern, sophisticated simulators) pretty much everywhere they look:

• In Their Newspapers
  Both the Washington University newspaper and the website of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch offer this reminder of the shameful practice: 

© iStockphoto.com/Dan Brandenburg

(peta.org)

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
© iStockphoto.com/Grigoriy Lukyanov