These Universities Give Animals Seizures—Help Stop Them NOW!

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Two universities are teaming up with the U.S. Navy to torment animals—help end these deadly decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity experiments!

This doomed animal in a hyperbaric chamber is one of the countless rats who University of South Florida experimenter Jay Dean has used to supposedly study oxygen toxicity in humans, even though human-relevant, animal-free methods are widely available.

PETA has saved sheep from being injured and paralyzed in similar experiments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With your help, we can save more at these schools: 🙏

Duke University
The Navy pays experimenter Heath Gasier nearly $845,000 to give young mice seizures, subject them to high-pressure oxygen, force them to run on a treadmill using electric shocks, and gas them to death.

University of South Florida
The Navy gave experimenter Jay Dean more than $1 million to give rats seizures without pain relief, put recording devices in their abdomens, and thread wires through their bodies before killing them all.

What You Can Do
Please shoot a quick (but polite) email to these university officials urging them to end deadly and pointless tests on animals. 🫶

Just copy + paste this block of e-mail addresses in the “To” field: [email protected]; [email protected]

You can use these talking points, but your own words will always hit harder:

Please immediately stop all U.S. Navy–funded decompression sickness and/or oxygen toxicity tests on animals at your school.
The navies of France and the U.K. have banned decompression sickness tests on animals. The U.S. should do the same.
Animal-free research methods are more effective, ethical, and economical.

Then, tell the U.S. Department of War to ban all decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity experiments on animals!

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Secretary of War

Research and Engineering

Office of the Secretary of War

The Honorable

Hung Cao

Navy

Message to {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName}:

I’m writing today to thank the U.S. Navy for its decision to ban the use of dogs and cats for tests on animals. Building on this important step, I urge the Navy and the U.S. Department of War to take further action by banning the use of all animals in cruel decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity experiments.

In 2010, the Navy pulled its funding for these gruesome and pointless experiments on sheep at the University of Wisconsin–Madison after PETA and other animal rights organizations filed complaints and brought massive public attention to this cruelty. After similar tests on sheep were subsequently resumed there, and PETA advocated against them, the university terminated the crude experiments in 2022, years ahead of schedule.

Unfortunately, the Navy is still wasting taxpayer money on similar decompression or oxygen toxicity tests on animals at Duke University and the University of South Florida.

Sheep, mice, and rats who have been subjected to almost unimaginable pain, cruelty, and often death in these experiments are not miniature humans. And results from these tests are not directly applicable to humans.

There are better ways to advance human health without harming animals. In vitro studies and reanalysis of existing human-diver data have already returned promising results. Machine-learning and computer-modeling methods also hold more promise than dicing up animals, and their results are directly applicable to humans.

Moreover, the British navy stopped using animals in decompression experiments way back in 2008. The French navy has also abandoned this archaic practice. The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Department of Defense should follow this precedent and commit to good science by banning decompression and oxygen toxicity tests on all animals immediately.

Sincerely,

{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}
{user_data~EMail Address}

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