Who was E6993? May 6, 2009
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The animal testing and dissection industries are heartless—masked by genius marketing schemes designed to trick compassionate people into paying for cruelty to animals in the name of saving human lives or teaching kids valuable lessons. Vivisectors, scientists and researchers want nothing more than for you to be quiet, listen, and not question the outdated, cruel and inhumane methods in which they blindly believe—and profit from.
So where do those animals come from? Well, frogs, rabbits and sometimes cats can come from breeding supply firms like the one in our undercover investigation (where you can see cats being pumped with formaldehyde while they're still alive) or can be trapped in the wild. If you're dissecting a dog or a cat in your high school or college though, they might've come straight from your local shelter thanks to pound seizure.
What is pound seizure? It's one of the most disgusting acts (and that's a feat) in any animal exploitation business—where dealers can purchase live animals from shelters in many states, and sell them off to schools, or laboratories for dissection and testing. These future test subjects were once someone's companion—unwanted, abandoned, or just plain missing and waiting to go home.
E6993 was a stray with her purple collar still on, who was found by animal control in a rural Michigan town. She was brought to a local shelter there, and then purchased by a research company. After spending six months there, likely spending most of her time alone, confined in a cage, E6993 was sold to the University of Florida, where vet students performed abdominal surgeries, ultrasounds and other procedures on her. E6993 would never find her way home. After 7 months of being tested on, E6993 was killed.
Help stop all animals from being brought into labs and classrooms—dead or alive. Demand alternatives for dissection—we can help. Animals who are lost, trapped or bred only to be killed in your class or others have no voice—they need yours. Speak up for animals like E6993 in the best place you can—your own school.
Stay loud!
Comments
Ugh that is SICKENING! And that poor dog might have never known what it was like to be loved and cherished, pet and cuddled. F*ck she might not have known what it was like to have food given to her every day.
Posted by: erika at May 7, 2009 2:03 PMthat's so terrible.
Posted by: ana at May 7, 2009 4:45 PMit's so ironic that the vet school students...who are learning to help animals...are doing this.
Posted by: cody at May 7, 2009 7:56 PMOh my god wtf??? why would they do that to a DOG or any other animals for gods sake?! STOP THE KILLING!
Posted by: clay at May 8, 2009 12:10 AMThat is very sadistic. How humans can do that to animals, I surely do not know. I can't fathom how torturing an animal isn't heart breaking, disgusting, repulsing, hard, etc. for someone to do.
Posted by: Yasmeen at May 8, 2009 10:11 AMIt is truly disgraceful.
I always say: "think of that happening to a person".
It would NEVER happen to people!
We have fancy dummies and computer programs for Surgeons to practice surgery on humans so why not for Veterinarian's?
Answer:
COST!
Posted by: Liam at May 8, 2009 5:53 PMI usually feel quite hopeful about my species, but stuff like this makes me feel ashamed to be a human.
Posted by: Moriah at May 8, 2009 6:25 PMthat could have just been someones lost dog, if that ever happened to my dog i dont even know what i would do that is SO sad i cant even beleive it, i fucking hate dissectiona dn animal testing
Posted by: at May 10, 2009 10:00 PMThese people are so heartless; it's like they don't treasure a life.
It's a tragedy when one soldier dies in the war, which shouldn't even be happening in the first place, but when an animal who only asks to be loved is taken for granted, some just shrug. But life is so precious, so precious that people kill to live.
What has this world come to? I think that next year, in secondary 3, I'll need your help to get an alternative. :) Thanks a lot PETA! ♥♥
- Ciara
Posted by: Ciara Lanza at May 11, 2009 3:37 PMThis is so freaking ridiculous! I swear we cant even call people like that "human"! I dont believe in killing animals even if they are supposedly dying. TRUE STORY: My cat Cali lives outside, we saw her foaming out of her mouth, barely walking. Even if she managed to take a step, she fell. She was pottying diarhea and everything. This was Halloween of last year. We figured that she was poisoned, so my dad was going to put her down when we got back from my aunts house. When we came back we couldnt find her. The next morning we woke up and I went outside to see where she was. She was sitting on our porch looking like nothing had ever happened. That is living proof that you should not put animals down, it may not be their time to go. She is now healthy and outside sitting on our deck. I dont like her being outside, and I sneak her in from time-to-time. But anyways back to the puppy. AWWWWW! I hate humans! They are inconsiderate. EVERYONE should be vegetarian! GO VEG!
Posted by: Jessica at June 29, 2009 7:47 PMThis is just horrible!! My Bio class this year was dissecting and I refused and after I did some other kids who were going to dissect didn't after seeing me refuse to. It just goes to show that one person CAN make a difference!
Posted by: Talysha at July 2, 2009 1:28 PMI´m from Argentina and we do not dissection at high schools, and I read that there are some laws that banned that
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OH MY GOD!!! That is horrdid, repulsive, inhumane, ugh words cant even describe how nasty and wrong that is!
Posted by: Ellie at May 7, 2009 10:13 AM