Action Alerts & Updates
Stop Cruel Pig Lab
August 4, 2008
On August 7, the Omni Interlocken Resort is hosting an event in which pigs will be killed and sacrificed in a "Hands-On Pig Lab" to demonstrate electrosurgical tools.
The Pig Lab is being devised by Covidien Electrosurgery, a company that performs laboratory tests on animals in order to market its surgical tools.
Formerly known as ValleyLab, Covidien has a history of controversy, including an incident that prompted the University of Colorado at Denver to ban all non-research vivisection in 2007.
The August 7 event advertises, "Procedures that will be performed include: ureteral dissection, pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy, repair of simulated bowel and bladder injury, bowel resection, ureteral re-anasomosis, and liver resection."
In other words, pigs will be mutilated and cut apart at the August 7 so that Covidien can hawk its wares to buyers.
You Can Help
Contact the Hotel that is hosting the conference in which Covidien's cruel Pig Lab will be performed. Tell them that animal cruelty is a black mark on their name, and that you will not patronize a place that plays host to such gratuitous abuse.
David Jurcak,
General Manager, Omni Interlocken Resort
Broomfield, Colorado
ph: 303-438-6600
fax: 303-438-7224
SEND AN EMAIL THROUGH:
http://www.omnihotels.com/Home/ContactUsForm.aspx?…
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