Thank you for your article on the invasive and lethal eye experiments that MSU’s Arthur Weber has been conducting on cats, MSU prof in PETA poll for worst animal offender (SN 4/14).
Weber hides behind MSU’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, or IACUC, which reviews proposed experiments, by asking the committee chair to comment in his place. While IACUCs are intended to protect animals, numerous reports indicate IACUCs are failing at their responsibilities to animals and act instead as rubber-stamp bodies.
A scathing 2005 audit report published by the Office of the Inspector General reports that as a result of rampant IACUC failures at facilities across the country, sick animals go without veterinary care, animals used in invasive surgeries do not receive sufficient pain relief, and extremely sick animals are denied humane euthanasia.
To learn more, please visit www.stopanimaltests.com. For free stickers and information on what you can do to help, visit www.peta2.com.
Alka Chandna
Ph.D., laboratory oversight specialist for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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