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Lawsuit Against Louisiana State University Results in Exposing Bird Tortures

From PETA.org
September 2023

Lattin has made a sickening career out of kidnapping sparrows from their natural homes and subjecting them to various types of torment, including pumping them full of sex hormones and then exposing them to terrifying predator calls. In other recent experiments, she has tested birds’ fear of unfamiliar objects by starving them for hours and then putting items—such as blinking lights, pink puffs, and cocktail umbrellas—near their food dishes to see how readily the birds would approach. Then she killed them and examined their brains.

baby Sparrow

Louisiana State University (LSU) has lost—again—in its wrongheaded bid to prevent the public from seeing certain records relating to experiments on animals.

The Louisiana Court of Appeal, First Circuit, has sided largely with PETA, ordering the university to hand over documents and various videos relating to Christine Lattin’s torturous experiments.

LSU ran around in circles wasting time and attempting to keep these videos and documents out of PETA’s hands, appealing the 19th Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge’s 2022 decision in our favor. With the higher court’s decision to uphold nearly every aspect of that ruling, LSU will no longer be able to keep the public in the dark about the twisted torment it’s paying for.

Lattin has made a sickening career out of kidnapping sparrows from their natural homes and subjecting them to various types of torment, including pumping them full of sex hormones and then exposing them to terrifying predator calls.

In other recent experiments, she has tested birds’ fear of unfamiliar objects by starving them for hours and then putting items—such as blinking lights, pink puffs, and cocktail umbrellas—near their food dishes to see how readily the birds would approach.

Then she killed them and examined their brains.

The district court also ordered LSU to pay PETA more than $73,000 to cover our attorneys’ fees and other costs incurred when we were forced to sue the university for withholding public information.

As soon as we review the records, we’ll let you know the new details concerning Lattin’s experiments on birds.


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