Two years after a whistleblower provided photos and video from inside a University of Alabama–Birmingham (UAB) laboratory showing the egregious pain and suffering of animals there due to inattentive, unqualified staff who kept shoddy records that they often falsified, PETA has the federal receipts to back the allegations up.
Newly obtained federal reports show that David K.C. Cooper’s xenotransplantation laboratory, where organs cut out of one species are implanted in another, is exactly the cruel clown show the whistleblower described back in 2020.
PETA, in a letter sent to UAB top brass today, demands that the university take immediate action by banning experimenters who violate federal animal welfare regulations and guidelines.
Among a litany of animal welfare violations, the whistleblower alleged that staffers in Cooper’s FrankenTransplant lab squirted Woolite laundry detergent on the open, hemorrhaging surgical wound of a baboon named Laja before parading her in front of the bigwigs whose money bankrolls the lab.
A pig kidney had been transplanted into Laja in January 2019 at UAB. By September, she was dead.
Federal inspectors appear to back up this claim of astonishing cruelty. The report states that the lab “purchased and used a detergent for cleaning topical areas on animals when a more appropriate clinical use product should have been obtained for this purpose” [emphasis added].
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