Despite determined efforts by PCRM members, concerned citizens, and a coalition of animal protection organizations led by the Wisconsin Humane Society, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is scheduled to hold another round of unnecessary animal labs during the 2008-2009 academic year. The school plans to continue to use live pigs, frogs, rats, and the intestines of rabbits. MCW's animal use puts it in an ever-shrinking class of medical schools that use live animals to teach medical students. In addition, the widespread nature of this animal use-all of it in the first year physiology course-is testament to the outdated thinking of the school's Physiology chairman Allen Cowley Jr., Ph.D.

Pigs are highly intelligent, social animals who have been shown to be more intelligent than dogs. Animal behavior experts agree, and scientific evidence suggests, that pigs are very smart, very sensitive animals.

Now it's time to keep the pressure on MCW. Please let MCW know that using any animal in a live lab is cruel and unnecessary.

Call, e-mail, or write a letter to MCW Department of Physiology chairman Allen Cowley Jr., Ph.D., and politely ask him to end the school's live animal lab program. Send an automatic e-mail>

Allen Cowley, Jr., Ph.D.
Chairman
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone: 414-456-8277
Fax: 414-456-6546
cowley@mcw.edu

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