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Media Coverage PETA Protests Vandy's Animal Research
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=5509238
Local animal advocates claim Vanderbilt University tortures lab
animals, and they took their message to the streets Friday. Demonstrators gathered peacefully outside Vanderbilt University, but
their statement was clear. They said a whistleblower in the lab at Vanderbilt contacted PETA
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). The snitch claims a Vanderbilt Researcher tortured the lab's
primates, deprived an animal of liquids and didn't clean feces off of a
restrained monkey. "The whistleblower claimed Jeffrey Schall had performed brain surgery
and drilling and so forth on the monkeys without first anesthetizing
them," animal advocate Billye Thompson said. A Vanderbilt University spokesperson made the following statement:
"We believe PETA's allegations against Dr. Schall's research
practices to be unfounded and completely false. And that PETA, without
performing due diligence to check facts, willfully chose to inaccurately
interpret a comment made by a university faculty member about animal
research to their best advantage."
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