Good for ewe!
This fall, students who are enrolled in the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) training course at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will no longer be practicing on live sheep.
The decision to end the use of sheep comes after a long campaign animal rights organizations, physicians, activists and hospital employees that kicked off with a protest in 2009 calling for non-animal alternatives.
Since then, over 38,000 emails were sent to hospital administrators opposing the practice.
The sheep used at MGH were subjected to various invasive 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. The animals are also subjected to the trauma of confinement, shipping, and preparation for surgery.”
We are glad out wooled friends are safe from unnecessary death, and can go back to making us sweaters! (jk)
[Image via WENN.]