Attention MCW students: If you see or hear any incidences regarding MCW's live animal lab that concern you, contact us immediately at our confidential toll-free number: 1-888-6-TIP-USDA (888-684-7873).

*Update: If you live in the Milwaukee area, please join PCRM members and physicians for a demonstration on Monday, Feb. 18—the day the lab is scheduled to begin.  The peaceful demonstration will begin at 11 a.m. at North 87th St. at MCW’s main entrance (between Watertown Plank Rd. and Wisconsin Ave.). Signs will be provided. If you have questions, please contact Ryan Merkley at rmerkley@pcrm.org.

Despite determined efforts by PCRM members, concerned citizens, and a coalition of animal protection organizations led by the Wisconsin Humane Society, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is scheduled to hold another round of unnecessary animal labs in February 2008. For this year’s labs the school will use live pigs instead of dogs—despite past declarations by MCW representatives that pigs are poor subjects for this lab. This lateral move by MCW is a clear indication that the immense public pressure put on the school by thousands of individuals, PCRM, and the Wisconsin Humane Society can effect change. MCW has felt enormous pressure to change, and our efforts will continue.

Pigs are highly intelligent, social animals who have been shown to be more intelligent than dogs. Animal behavior experts agree, and scientific evidence suggests, that pigs are very smart, very sensitive animals.

Now it’s time to keep the pressure on MCW. Please let MCW know that using any animal in a live lab is cruel and unnecessary.

Call, e-mail, or write a letter to MCW president and CEO T. Michael Bolger, Department of Physiology chairman Allen Cowley Jr., Ph.D., and director of MCW's pig lab Jean-Francois Liard, M.D., Ph.D., and politely ask them to end the school’s live animal lab program. Send an automatic e-mail>

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