[292] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
thoughts on animal research
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (elsiedee@MIT.EDU)
Thu Dec 8 17:09:26 1994
From: elsiedee@MIT.EDU
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 94 17:08:10 EST
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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 08:33:16 -0700 (MST)
From: "Christopher J Sitler" <6238@ef.gc.maricopa.edu>
To: AR-TALK@CYGNUS.COM
Subject: Pound Seizure
Hello everyone, my name is Chris and I am new to this forum. I have been
following the debate on whether pound animals should be used for lab research
or not. My mother is the supervisor of a county shelter in CA and has worked
their for 20 years. I thought maybe I could provide a different perspective
to this conversation.
Her shelter euthanizes (she prefers to use this word) over 1000
animals every month. She still does most of the euthanizations and estimates
she has put down over 100,000 animals in her years at the shelter. The worst
part of this is that most of these animals are not scroungy strays or unkept
wild animals, they are unwanted beautiful animals, mostly still pups and
kittens. There are many purebreds and papered animals. Over 1/2 of the
animals are brought their voluntarily by their owners.
My driver's license has a box marked organ donor, so that when I die
my body may be used to save the lives of others. Why then can we not get
people that bring their animals to the shelter to sign a release giving
permission for their animal to be used in a lab for research if it not
adopted?
CSitler.6238@GC.Maricopa.Edu
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