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TOPIC: Massachusetts Hospitals Mutilating Animals: Petition
Massachusetts Hospitals Mutilating Animals: Petition 1 year, 1 month ago #154
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PCRM and several Massachusetts physicians filed criminal complaints on both Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, detailing how the hospitals’ use of live sheep and pigs, respectively, is a violation of the state animal cruelty statute.
The criminal complaints state that the hospitals’ “use of [animals] in this manner directly violates Massachusetts cruelty statute, which criminalizes conduct that ‘mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be . . . mutilated or killed.’ This prohibition applies with equal force to anyone who, “having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, . . . or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind.” Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses, like those taught at Mass General and Baystate, teach procedures designed to treat acute trauma injuries. The American College of Surgeons, which oversees ATLS courses, has approved the use of human patient simulators such as the TraumaMan System to teach these courses, but at Mass General live sheep are used, and at Baystate, trainees learn on live pigs. In these courses, numerous invasive procedures are practiced on the anesthetized animals. At the end of each course, the animals are killed. Both Mass General and Baystate continue to use live animals for this training despite the fact that both hospitals already own the TraumaMan System. So far, the responsible faculty members and administrators have ignored our pleas to change their methods. Please contact the presidents of Mass General and Baystate today. You can read PCRM's criminal complaints here: support.pcrm.org/site/DocServer/Baystate...1&autologin=true  Ask Massachusetts General Hospital and Baystate Medical Center  |
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