Oklahoma State University officials now say that organs have been removed from live animals and bones have been broken on dead animals as part of the school’s method of training veterinarians.
On Monday, the school said that animals were not subjected to organ removal or broken bones at OSU’s Center of Veterinary Health Sciences in Stillwater.
The school was responding to public criticism by Madeleine Pickens, an animal advocate who has donated $5 million to OSU programs.
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What's wrong with breaking the bones of already dead animals? Who cares? Don't vets need to know what broken bones look like to learn how to treat them? Also, a representative from OSU has said that "organ removal can occur if the procedure is reviewed and approved by the school’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for a specific teaching or research project." The article goes on to say that "OSU complies with the Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of laboratory animals, which is applicable to all research and research training activities involving live vertebrate animals supported by the Public Health Service." What if they're telling the truth? What if they really are doing the right thing?
Also, do you think this may be a case of a wealthy donor throwing her weight around the object of her donations just because she can? What do you think?
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It does matter what they are doing at OSU because the terminal surgeries were just the tip of the iceberg here for cruel practices and mismanagement. I know because my daughter left this program two years ago because of the practices. She is not a member of any group, just a responsible human being. It took a lot of guts to do this, because basically it ruined her chances of ever being accepted at another vet school. She has volunteered at other vet schools and they did not treat animals this way.