Columbia Community Joins Fight to End Cruel Animal Experiments
Columbia professors, students, staff, and alumni are raising
their voices in protest of the crude, cruel, and pointless studies
that maim and kill primates in the university’s laboratories.
Their letters and phone calls asking President Bollinger to stop
these hideous tests are pouring in to Columbia’s administrative
offices. They are concerned about the animals who are being abused,
as well as about the reputation of the university that they love—and
they want action, not excuses.
| “[I]t
is not at all clear that the university acted ‘as
soon as’ it became aware of the abuse of the animals,
since there is considerable public evidence that the University
resisted facing the matter at all until its treatment of
the animals became increasingly public.”
—Douglas Sloan, Ph.D., professor emeritus, Columbia
University, in a letter to the Columbia administration |
Professor Emeritus Douglas Sloan accuses
the Columbia experimenters of “indifference, sadism, and
shabby science. Knowing the university reward system, as I do,
I can’t help but wonder how much of this research, and its
accompanying disregard for the suffering of the animals involved,
was driven primarily by the desire of the researchers to get a
publishable article, come what may to the animals, or to the discovery
of medical cures, for that matter.”
Click here to
read Dr. Sloan’s letter.
If you work for Columbia or are a student or alum, won’t
you join PETA and your colleagues in demanding an end to the university’s
embarrassing and cruel experiments? Please take just a few minutes
to let us know how you’re affiliated
with Columbia.
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