Each of the Final Four Schools Employ Cruel Animal Abusers
As those of you who have been keeping up with your NCAA "March Madness" brackets will know, this year's college basketball championship series is down to the final four schools, all vying for the top spot. Unfortunately, they're all losers.
I say this because, in a tragic irony, the universities that have the most talented athletes also seem to hire some of the cruelest animal abusers in the nation.
Need proof?
Villanova University vs. University of North Carolina
Villanova experimenters inject methamphetamine into rats' stomachs to determine whether the drug influences the rats' response time in behavioral tests (gee, I wonder). Unfortunately, as you might have seen in our "Who Cares?" video, this kind of pointless and cruel test on rats and mice is still legal—in fact, no experiment on them, no matter how painful, is against the law.
Maria Boccia, a vivisector at UNC–Chapel Hill, removes rat pups—at 2 to 14 days old—from their mothers for extended periods of time in order to induce a deep depression in the mother rats. She then places the mothers in cylinders of water from which they can not escape in order to see how quickly they are overcome with a sense of helplessness and stop swimming.
University of Connecticut vs. Michigan State University
At University of Connecticut, experimenters implant steel rods into rabbits' spines to keep them immobile. They then shock the rabbits with electrodes and measure the animals' brainwaves while they are still awake.
Not to be outdone, the returning "champion" from last year's contest, MSU vivisector Arthur Weber has continued his "work" removing the eyes of cats while the animals are still alive. Weber attempted to justify his cruel and pointless experiments last year; on Weber's behalf, an MSU official stated, "The animals are completely anesthetized, receive painkillers, and once the animals come out of the anesthesia, 10 minutes later you can't tell the difference." Yeah, you're probably right. I'm sure eyes are overrated anyway. What?! And don't forget the part where you keep them alive for a week after the operation and then kill them—I'd be willing to bet my March Madness pool money that they notice that too!
Of course, it's not the basketball players' fault that their schools hired such colossal creeps—animal experimentation is big business. As shown above, though, no amount of money can keep animal abusers from being morally bankrupt.
Posted by Ryan Huling
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The beauty of the emotion based arguments PETA is so fond of is they do not need to stand up to Scientific Rigor, nor do they require a broad view of the issue.
Scientific Rigor demands that nothing be taken for granted. You cannot merely say “gee, I wonder,” roll your eyes and assume your prediction is accurate. Scientific discovery requires experimentation and examination of the evidence. This means you must prove your guesses before they are accepted as fact.
No context was provided for any of the examples given. Without context the idea of a doctor injecting a patient with a virus seems like something out of a horror film. When provide the context to the scenario, the virus is actually a vaccine , the scenario now becomes an everyday occurrence. Each of the examples PETA list SEEMS shocking and horrifying on the surface, but I’d wager there is more to each of them then they have stated. Was the methamphetamine part of a larger study on the drugs affects? Was the mother rat experiment part of a post-partum depression drug study that may someday prevent tragedy? The rabbit experiment sounds like it part of a study on spinal cord injuries.
Without context, these examples are less then worthless: they damage the cause PETA supports by furthering the popular image of animal rights activists as single minded radicals.