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UCSD Sadists
whether they kill
dogs
or hogs
or frogs
it's all the same
to the sadists
at UCSD
who live in
an ethical fog
*****
Yoon Choi
Date: Wed Jun 18, 2003 6:51 am
Ask UCSD To End Unnecessary Dog Labs
Kinship Circle
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June 2003 Activate For Animals
American Anti-Vivisection Society
aavs@a... ; www.aavs.org
www.doctorsagainstdoglabs.com
Last Chance For Animals (LCA)
San Diego Chapter
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University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
Chancellor Robert C. Dynes; email: rdynes@u...
Dr. Ed Homes, Dean of the Medical School; email:
ewholmes@u...
Dr. Hampton Atkinson, Chair of the Core Curriculum
Committee; email: jhatkinson@u...
Tony Yaksh, Ph.D., Chair of the Animal Subjects
Committee; email: tyaksh@u...
John Marsh, Ph.D., member of the Animal Subjects
Committee; email: jjmarsh@u...
Odile Mathieu-Costello, Ph.D., member of the Animal
Subjects Committee
email: omathieucostello@u...
Geert Schmid-Schoenbein, member of the Animal Subjects
Committee; email: gschmid@u...
rdynes@u..., ewholmes@u...,
jhatkinson@u..., tyaksh@u...,
jjmarsh@u..., omathieucostello@u...,
gschmid@u...
Dear Chancellor Dynes, Dr. Holmes, Dr. Atkinson, Dr.
Yaksh and Members of UCSD Animal Subjects Committee:
I write to again ask UCSD School of Medicine to
terminate its dog labs. Please emulate the 100 other
medical colleges--including Columbia, Harvard,
Stanford, and Yale--that now use proficient and humane
non-animal technologies to teach physiology and
pharmacology.
At Harvard Medical School, for example, students learn
surgical skills in human operating rooms, working
alongside experienced surgeons. Students are always
better equipped to tackle human circumstances when
knowledge is obtained about their own species through
surgical assistance, human cadaver labs, or computer
simulators.
Dr. Nancy Harrison, who completed her residency at
UCSD and went on to form Doctors Against Dog Labs,
refers to dog labs as pedagogical teaching exercises
that serve no unique function. "When students cut open
dogs to demonstrate basic physiology and pharmacology,
they do not discover anything new. They do not advance
medical science."
There is no justification for UCSD to purchase
purpose-bred dogs at a cost of over $575 each, when
efficacious non-animal research modes not only supply
data relevant to humans, but also delete overhead to
confine, feed and discard laboratory animals. There is
certainly no ethical rationale behind half-day
laboratory exercises that typically call for students
to anesthetize healthy dogs, slice open their chests
to demonstrate biological principals on the beating
heart, and kill the animals upon completion.
Moreover, failure to utilize non-animal research tools
for basic physiology and pharmacology courses defies
regulations established under the Animal Welfare
Act--which stipulates replacement of animals whenever
alternatives exist.
Please keep me informed of your progress to
permanently ban outmoded and inhumane dog labs.
Thank you,
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