{"id":9401,"date":"2011-06-22T18:06:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-22T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T18:06:21","slug":"Help-PCRM-Stop-the-University-of-Mississippi-s-Cruel-Pig-Lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9401","title":{"rendered":"Help PCRM Stop the University of Mississippi&#8217;s Cruel Pig Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, PCRM filed a criminal complaint against the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) School of Medicine for violations of the state&#8217;s animal cruelty law for using live pigs in its training of medical students. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure2.convio.net\/pcrm\/site\/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&#038;page=UserAction&#038;id=429&#038;autologin=true\">Please help this effort by asking UMMC to end this animal use today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UMMC uses live pigs in its medical student physiology lab. In these laboratory sessions, students place catheters in the pigs&#8217; arteries and veins, block the animals&#8217; arteries, and inject them with drugs. Students then open the pigs&#8217; chest cavities and massage the hearts. Afterwards, the animals are killed.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the UMMC faculty and administrators have ignored pleas to change this method. Please help us <a href=\"https:\/\/secure2.convio.net\/pcrm\/site\/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&#038;page=UserAction&#038;id=429&#038;autologin=true\">by e-mailing<\/a> UMMC School of Medicine dean James Keeton, M.D., and University of Mississippi chancellor Daniel Jones, M.D., today and urging them to end this cruel and unnecessary practice.<\/p>\n<p>UMMC is one of <a href=\"http:\/\/pcrm.org\/resch\/meded\/ethics_medlab_list.html\">only seven medical schools<\/a> in the United States and Canada still using live animals for training. Furthermore, UMMC already has a medical simulation center that could easily provide nonanimal training methods for its physiology lab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure2.convio.net\/pcrm\/site\/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&#038;page=UserAction&#038;id=429&#038;autologin=true\">Please e-mail<\/a> Dr. Keeton and Dr. Jones today and ask them again to join the 95 percent of medical schools that use human-based training methods.<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, PCRM filed a criminal complaint against the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) School of Medicine for violations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"njaiyo","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"This week, PCRM filed a criminal complaint against the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) School of Medicine for violations","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":125,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"njaiyo","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=6"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}