Action Alert: Help Stop Inhumane Spinal Cord Classes at OSU
Help PCRM stop “Cruelty 101” Ohio State University is offering what may be
the most inhumane summer course ever taught: A class in injuring
the spinal cords of rats and mice.
Participants in OSU's Spinal Cord Injury Research Techniques Course
will be taught how to systematically injure the animals' spinal
cords by major surgery and blunt trauma. Nicknamed “Cruelty 101”,
the three-week course subjects 189 rats and 80 mice each year to
multiple painful surgeries, laboratory procedures, and distressing
behavioral exercises after the injuries. It is a program designed
to expand rodent experiments, diverting attention and funding away
from clinical spinal cord injury research far into the future.
Instead, OSU should be encouraging future researchers to “think
outside the box” and develop and use in vitro and clinical research,
imaging, and post-mortem techniques-only then can we learn the human
consequences and cures for human spinal cord injury.
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