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PCRM | Dead Puppy, Burned Baboons Top Ivy LeagueAnimal Cruelty Report

A dead puppy was found under a floor grate at the University of Pennsylvania. Baboons wereburned and blistered in an experiment at Yale. PCRMs new report uncovers shocking animal abuse

at all eight Ivy League schools.

PCRM evaluated the Ivy League universities on their adherence to the minimal standards of theAnimal Welfare Act (AWA) and their stewardship of taxpayer funding through the National Institutesof Health. The report finds that all the universities had disturbingly high numbers of AWA violations.Animals at the schools suffered injury and death from various causes, including unauthorizedsurgical experiments.

At Harvard, a cage was sent through a mechanical cage washer with a primate still inside. He wasfound dead. These are the lethal conditions he had to endure: The washers water temperaturereaches 180 to 200 F. Detergent and acid or alkaline wash solutions were pumped into the cage.

The wash cycles duration lasted 15 to 20 minutes. At times, its water pressure was the same as ariot-control water cannon, according to product specifications.

Federal inspectors at Ivy League laboratories should not be uncovering burned baboons and adead puppy under a floor grate, says John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., a PCRM physician andformer Harvard Medical School faculty member. Prestigious research institutions getting millions ofdollars in grant money should be held accountable for neglect and abuse of animals used inexperiments and should commit to replacing animals in research.

Based on a PCRM scoring system that weighs the number and severity of violations, the Ivy Leagueschools were ranked from worst to least bad in the Ivy League Research Misconduct Report Card:

Rank University ResearchMisconductScore

Notable Violations

Worst University ofPennsylvania

120 A dead newborn puppy was found under a kennel floorgrate.

2ndWorst(tie)

PrincetonUniversity

49 Nonhuman primates were routinely forced to go morethan 24 hours without water.

2ndWorst(tie)

YaleUniversity

49 Baboons were burned and blistered when heating padswere substituted for warm water units in an experiment.

4thWorst

HarvardUniversity

48 A cage was sent through a mechanical cage washer with a primate still inside. He was found dead.

5thWorst

CornellUniversity

38 A primates lungs essentially burst when an importantvalve was not opened during surgery. The animal diedof pulmonary hyperinflation.

6thWorst

BrownUniversity

35 Students used animals in surgical experiments notapproved by the Institutional Animal Care and UseCommittee. Two had to be euthanized.

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7thWorst

DartmouthCollege

33 An investigator noticed a nonhuman primate so thin hispelvic bones showed. The attending veterinarian hadnot been notified of this life-threatening weight loss.

8thWorst

ColumbiaUniversity

25 Alternatives to a painful experiment were not evenconsidered.

To read the complete report and ask NIH to stop funding the Ivy Leagues animal abuse, visitPCRM.org/IvyLeague.

http://www.pcrm.org/IvyLeague