Today, Attorneys for Animals joined Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in calling on Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy to investigate Wayne State University for ongoing violations of Governor Whitmer’s #StayHomeStaySafe Order.
Image: Heart Failure Hero", PCRM
…Wayne State has used dogs in invasive, fatal experiments in which medical devices are implanted in the animals’ hearts and around major blood vessels during multiple surgeries and cables and wires are surgically tunneled out their backs. Then the dogs are forced to run on treadmills while heart failure and/or hypertension are induced.
April 7, 2020 letter to AG Nessel and wayne co. prosecutor worthy, from Pcrm’s Dr. john pippin and afa’s beatrice friedlander (footnotes omitted)
According to emails from WSU’s president to PCRM, the university considers considers these experiments so important that “critical infrastructure workers” are currently onsite daily and are “completing their studies” on the dogs. These experiments, ostensibly studying hypertension and heart failure to treat human cardiovascular disease, were begun in 1991 and have cost taxpayers $11.6 billion over almost 3 decades. There is no evidence that these experiments have benefited humans suffering from heart disease, the leading cause of death in Michigan.
More information about the experiments and H.B. 5090, a bill pending in the Michigan legislature to prohibit conducting research on dogs in a manner causing pain and distress by individuals employed or otherwise affiliated by a public body, can be found at PCRM’s website.
Governor Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-21, “Temporary requirement to suspend activities that are not necessary to sustain or protect life” which declared a state of emergency and designed to “prohibit in-person work that is not necessary to sustain or protect life.”
