{"id":1035678,"date":"2023-03-23T18:04:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=45db8b8faad36155ec6de405b55f6b06"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:04:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:04:53","slug":"today-video-peta-supporters-spark-uproar-over-pig-mutilation-drills-at-ut-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/23\/today-video-peta-supporters-spark-uproar-over-pig-mutilation-drills-at-ut-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"TODAY (Video): PETA Supporters Spark Uproar Over Pig Mutilation Drills at UT Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, PETA supporters confronted University of Tennessee (UT) Vice Chancellor for Research Deborah Crawford during her talk at the SPARKS: Broadband event at the Institute of Advanced Materials & Manufacturing, holding her feet to the fire over the UT College of Medicine\u2019s (UTCOM) continued greenlighting of invasive medical training procedures on live pigs.<\/p>\n

The pig defenders demanded that Crawford compel UTCOM to switch to the high-tech, animal-free human simulators used in the vast majority of comparable emergency medical training drills worldwide. Video footage is available <\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The training sessions in question involve inducing collapsed lungs, cutting into an artery to induce bleeding, and cracking open the ribs if resuscitating the pigs fails. The animals who survive the intrusive drills are killed. Maiming pigs is irrelevant to human emergency medicine, as the animals\u2019 anatomy and physiology are vastly different from those of humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelying on pigs to train medical providers in human emergency procedures is not just abysmally cruel, it\u2019s also bad science,\u201d says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. \u201cPETA is urging Crawford to take immediate action to replace these shameful, archaic drills with superior, non-animal training methods.\u201d<\/p>\n

The animal allies\u2019 action came after more than 96,000 PETA supporters<\/a> wrote to university leadership urging an end to the pig mutilation. Among other campaign actions, PETA previously sent letters to UT System President Randy Boyd and UT Health Sciences Center Chancellor Peter Buckley<\/a>, and a PETA representative spoke at the UT Board of Trustees meeting on October 28<\/a>. After hearing from PETA, UTCOM\u2019s hospital partner, Erlanger Health System, announced a new policy<\/a> banning its staff\u2014as well as its emergency medevac provider, LIFE FORCE\u2014from participating in the live-animal medical training drills at UTCOM.<\/p>\n

PETA\u2014whose motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to experiment on\u201d\u2014points to an internal e-mail<\/a> it obtained in which UTCOM leadership acknowledges that the public\u2019s discovery of its animal drills \u201cwill be very damaging to the College of Medicine and [its] credibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA\u2019s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org<\/strong><\/a>, listen to The PETA Podcast<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, or follow the group on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, Facebook<\/strong><\/a>, or Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

The post TODAY (Video): PETA Supporters Spark Uproar Over Pig Mutilation Drills at UT Talk<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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Earlier today, PETA supporters confronted University of Tennessee (UT) Vice Chancellor for Research Deborah Crawford during her talk at the SPARKS: Broadband event at the Institute of Advanced Materials & Manufacturing, holding her feet to the fire over the UT College of Medicine\u2019s (UTCOM) continued greenlighting of invasive medical training procedures on live pigs. The… Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

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