PETA NEWs
There's no better feeling than being able to share a happy ending for puppies to begin the holiday season!
Following a dynamic international PETA campaign, 70 4-month-old beagles destined for painful experiments in an Indian laboratory have just been saved! An investigation by the government of India prompted by a PETA India complaint found that the dogs were wrongfully imported, including being misleadingly identified as "pets" on required paperwork. The dogs, who were being held at a quarantine facility at Chennai International Airport, were released earlier today to local organizations and are being adopted out to loving homes.
The young dogs were headed for a laboratory where they were slated to endure cruel toxicity tests in which they would be injected with or force-fed chemicals, experimental drugs, and pesticides in increasingly higher doses until they became very sick or died.
PETA also discovered that the notorious laboratory breeder that sold the dogs, Marshall Biotechnology (a subsidiary of U.S.-based Marshall BioResources), lied to the airline transporting the beagles from China to India, stating in a letter that "they ... won't be hurt or killed as Lab Animal."
Based on whistleblower evidence and additional information gathered by PETA India staff, including heartbreaking photos and videos, our Indian affiliate filed a complaint with the government alleging that the shipment was done in violation of the law and calling for the dogs' release.
News about the case spread like wildfire around the world, and through PETA's international websites, 50,000 compassionate people sent e-mails asking Indian authorities to rescue the dogs.
We've saved these 70 lucky dogs from lives of misery and pain in a laboratory, but there's still more work to be done to keep animals out of the hands of experimenters in India. Air India recently resumed shipping animals to laboratories after promising PETA that it had banned the practice. Click here to write to Air India officials now and tell them to stop facilitating cruelty in laboratories.
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Justin Goodman
Director
Laboratory Investigations Department
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
There's no better feeling than being able to share a happy ending for puppies to begin the holiday season!Following a dynamic international PETA campaign, 70 4-month-old beagles destined for painful experiments in an Indian laboratory have just been saved! An investigation by the government of India prompted by a PETA India complaint found that the dogs were wrongfully imported, including being misleadingly identified as "pets" on required paperwork. The dogs, who were being held at a quarantine facility at Chennai International Airport, were released earlier today to local organizations and are being adopted out to loving homes.
The young dogs were headed for a laboratory where they were slated to endure cruel toxicity tests in which they would be injected with or force-fed chemicals, experimental drugs, and pesticides in increasingly higher doses until they became very sick or died.
PETA also discovered that the notorious laboratory breeder that sold the dogs, Marshall Biotechnology (a subsidiary of U.S.-based Marshall BioResources), lied to the airline transporting the beagles from China to India, stating in a letter that "they ... won't be hurt or killed as Lab Animal."
Based on whistleblower evidence and additional information gathered by PETA India staff, including heartbreaking photos and videos, our Indian affiliate filed a complaint with the government alleging that the shipment was done in violation of the law and calling for the dogs' release.
News about the case spread like wildfire around the world, and through PETA's international websites, 50,000 compassionate people sent e-mails asking Indian authorities to rescue the dogs.
We've saved these 70 lucky dogs from lives of misery and pain in a laboratory, but there's still more work to be done to keep animals out of the hands of experimenters in India. Air India recently resumed shipping animals to laboratories after promising PETA that it had banned the practice. Click here to write to Air India officials now and tell them to stop facilitating cruelty in laboratories.
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Justin Goodman
Director
Laboratory Investigations Department
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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