Two weeks ago, we asked you to sign a petition to Benjamin Sachs, M.B., senior vice president and dean of Tulane University School of Medicine, urging him to end the use of live pigs in a trauma training course.
With your help, the response was overwhelming. We collected more than 12,000 signatures in just two days. Now, I am asking you to help us achieve our goal of 20,000 signatures by forwarding our petition to your friends and family and posting it to Twitter and your Facebook page.
Tulane Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses typically involve cutting open live, anesthetized pigs and practicing procedures such as inserting a tube and needle into the animals’ chest cavities and cutting into their throats. After the training session, the animals are killed. Tulane is currently one of only 5 percent of ATLS courses in the United States and Canada that sill uses this cruel and ineffective method.
The next course begins at Tulane on June 5. We still have time to stop this.
Please forward our petition to your friends and family.
Thank you so much for your support. If you have any questions, please contact me at ngittell@pcrm.org.
Best regards,
Noah Gittell
Research and Education Programs Coordinator