To the editor,
I would like to alert those concerned with animal rights to the experimentation that takes place on campus and is presumably paid for with your tuition and tax dollars. Here’s the basic gist.
Plattsburgh State appears to conduct the same test, year after year, on chinchillas. The animals — sometimes restrained physically, sometimes not — are blasted with computer generated noise eight hours per day, five days a week. PSUC’s report to the United States Department of Agriculture tries to reassure us, laughably, saying the noise exposures “are less severe than unprotected exposures experienced by military personnel.” When the experiments are completed, all the animals are euthanized.
No doubt the experimenters would defend their work by saying they go to great lengths to protect the animals’ welfare — except for that nasty bit about killing them, whoops! But even if this were true, it’s hardly the point. The real issue is that animals are not means to human ends.
Please write to President John Ettling and tell him to abolish animal testing at Plattsburgh State. Here’s his e-mail address: president_office@plattsburgh.edu. For information about upcoming events, including a potential protest here against experimentation, please join the “Adirondack Animal Rights” group on Facebook.
Jon Hochschartner
PSUC student
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