Ask University of Texas Dallas to Drop Deadly Experiments

FROM People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

Contact University of Texas–Dallas Dean of Undergraduate Education J. Michael Coleman, and politely ask him to replace a cruel and deadly experiment on rats with the humane, non-animal teaching methods that are available and in use at other universities.

CONTACT

Sign an online petition

And/Or make direct contact:

Dean J. Michael Coleman
University of Texas, Dallas
800 West Campbell Road, GC16
Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
email
phone (972) 883-6706

INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS

In a cruel classroom neuroscience experiment at the University of Texas–Dallas, undergraduate students drill holes into healthy rats' skulls, destroy parts of their brains with chemicals, and then inject them with apomorphine and force them to perform in behavioral experiments to assess the brain damage that results. At the end of the experiment, the rats are killed.

Fortunately, a highly interactive computer simulation of this experiment that was developed with funding from the National Science Foundation is available for free on the Internet and has been endorsed by top neuroscientists as a replacement for the rat laboratory. Recently, the University of California–Irvine—home to one of the nation's top neuroscience programs—announced that it was replacing the rat experiment described above with this simulator after receiving information about it from PETA.

Thank you for everything you do for animals!