Rats Replaced with Computer Simulations
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org
FROM
People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA)
September 2009
An exciting victory for animals has been scored! Thanks in large part to
your e-mails, letters, and phone calls, the University of California-Irvine
has announced that it has replaced the use of rats in cruel classroom
neuroscience experiments with sophisticated computer simulations.
During these experiments at the University of California-Irvine,
undergraduate students drilled holes into rats' skulls and damaged their
brains with chemicals. The rats were killed when the experiments concluded.
A PETA complaint prompted a review of the experiment, and the non-animal
methods we proposed will now be used instead of animals. Because of this
victory, as many as 200 rats per year will be saved from suffering in these
classroom experiments.
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