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maandag 19 september 2016

Wetenschappers in Melbourne gebruiken windhonden voor vreselijk experiment.....

Wat het is met Australië, weet ik niet, maar dat 'land' weet op gebied van totale immoraliteit en inhumaniteit telkens weer het nieuws te halen: een vaargeul dwars door het Groot Barrièrerif t.b.v. de grootste kolenterminal ter wereld; het op barbaarse wijze vasthouden van vluchtelingen, waarbij geweld en mishandeling een gebruikte methode is tot het rustig krijgen van wanhopige en meestal getraumatiseerde mensen en hun kinderen, die onder erbarmelijke omstandigheden worden vastgehouden; de omgang met jongeren in gevangenissen, waarbij misbruik en marteling wordt gebruikt enz. enz.......

Afgelopen zaterdag kreeg ik van Care2 de vraag een petitie te tekenen, tegen ongekende wreedheid van wetenschappers (nou ja, 'ongekend?') verbonden aan de Monash University in Melbourne. Daar smoorde men 12 windhonden, nam vervolgens het hart weg,waarna men na 4 uur de harten willekeurig terugplaatste.......

Lees en huiver, tegen het eind ziet u een link waar u een petitie tegen dit barbaarse handelen kan tekenen:

Outrage Grows After Researchers Suffocate 12 Healthy Greyhounds



During a heart transplant experiment at an Australian university, researchers suffocated 12 live, healthy greyhounds and removed their hearts. Four hours later, they switched the hearts around and reattached them. The dogs were revived – and then euthanized.

As you can imagine, Monash University in Melbourne is facing an angry backlash for killing and then re-killing these dogs. The purpose of the study, which was published in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation earlier this year, was to determine whether the human heart donor pool could be increased with heart donations after circulatory death.

People believe these things happened a long time ago or somewhere overseas, but these experiments are happening right here right now, under our noses,” Helen Marston, head of the anti-vivisection group Humane Research Australia (HRA), told the Brisbane Times.

Even though dogs obviously have a different anatomy than humans, the university claims killing the greyhounds was absolutely necessary.

In a statement on Sept. 12, Monash University said the experiment was “approved by an independent ethics committee at The Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct with representatives from animal welfare organizations.” No other research alternatives were available and the research was critically important, the university said.

But is it true that there really were no other humane research alternatives available?

The researchers themselves have previously conducted human studies, so it is extremely difficult to comprehend why they would conduct studies utilizing hearts of a completely different species, and why the project proposal was approved by the (Alfred’s) animal ethics committee,” HRA said in a response to Monash University’s statement.

Instead of greyhounds, HRA points out, the researchers could have used poor-quality donor human hearts that were unsuitable to transplant because of their marginal function.

The university’s hospital also apparently has a Transmedics Organ Care System, a machine designed to, according to its manufacturer’s website, “maintain organs in a warm, functioning state outside of the body to optimize their health and allow continuous clinical evaluation” – which sure sounds like it would eliminate any need for live animals.

From the Cruel Track to the Cruel Laboratory

What’s especially heartbreaking is that many of these greyhounds were saved from the cruelty of racing — only to be unnecessarily killed in the name of medical research.

There was good news earlier this year when the government of New South Wales banned greyhound racing in the state. But along with it came bad news for many of the dogs.

With the surplus of greyhounds in the racing industry, it’s inevitable they end up in positions like this,” Belinda Oppenheimer, the resident veterinarian for Greyhound Rescue Victoria, told the Brisbane Times.

This wasn’t the first time greyhounds have been used in terrible experiments in Australia. Last year, researchers at the University of Melbourne put screws in the skulls and electrodes in the brains of four live greyhounds. The researchers noted that the dogs experienced “discomfort” for several days.

Even more egregiously, dogs have also been sacrificed to test cosmetic procedures. Last year, six greyhounds were given dental implants, then killed six months later. “The research was certainly not life-saving, as it was simply for human vanity,” Marston told the Brisbane Times in December 2015.

Nearly 6,000 dogs are subjected to experiments in Australia every year, ranging from simple observation to major surgery and euthanization. The majority are former racing dogs, along with beagles bred specifically for medical research.

Instead of ending up in laboratories, hopefully many of the retired racing greyhounds will end up in loving homes.

They’re a great lazy person’s pet,” Oppenheimer told the Brisbane Times. “Having greyhounds that come from an unpleasant background, they certainly pay the affection back.”

Animals deserve better than this. Please sign and share this petition calling for the end to animal cruelty in Australian universities.

Photo credit: Toms Baugis

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