About Mowgli and the University of Mississippi Medical Center
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In October 2006, a seven year old (b. 2/7/99) male rhesus macaque (like the ones pictured
above) named Mowgli was transferred to the University of Mississippi Medical Center
when a research lab at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) was closed
after accruing eighteen violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act and receiving harsh
scrutiny from the university, USDA and local activists.  The facility is currently under
investigation by the USDA.

Mowgli was received at UMC under the supervision of Dr. Paul May, a Professor of
Anatomy who conducts similar highly invasive, deadly neurological research on both
monkeys and cats.
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Click here to contact UMC and request his release
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While the University of Mississippi Medical Center has recently produced a statement
claiming that they are currently in compliance with all relevant animal welfare guidelines
(this has yet to be verified), the institution has an abominable history of concern for animal
welfare.  Would you consider the following, as UMC does, the "highest standards" of
animal care??

  • UMC ABUSES ANIMALS As of the most recent available USDA annual
    population reports from UMC (Fall 2005), there were 63 nonhuman primates, 27
    dogs, 61 cats, 106 hamsters, 165 rabbits and 68 pigs being exploited at the facility
    in experiments that involve "accompanying pain and distress."

  • UMC SUPPORTS ANIMAL ABUSERS For over ten years, UMC conducted
    business with Arkansas random-source animal dealer C.C. Baird who, in 2005, was
    charged with over 100 counts of animal abuse and neglect and ordered to pay a
    $262,000 fine to the USDA.  In March 1994, Baird transported 56 dogs and six cats
    to the UMC. When the truck reached the center, 42 of the dogs were dead, the
    university continued to conduct business with him until at least 2003 (scroll down
    on the page for list of Baird's customers as late as 2003).  It was also discovered
    that Baird purchased dogs that had been stolen from their owners and
    subsequently sold to research labs such as UMC.   

  • UMC ELIMINATED ACCOUNTABILITY In 2000, UMC in concert with a variety of
    biomedical industry lobbying groups, helped block a widely supported amendment
    of federal animal welfare legislation that would have placed regulations on the use
    of rats and mice in laboratory research.  These animals currently represent over
    90% of animals used in biomedical research yet, thanks to UMC and the Foundation
    for Biomedical Research, among others, they receive no protection under federal
    legislation.

  • UMC VIOLATES THE LAW  Furthermore, UMC remains one of only twelve
    medical training schools in the U.S. that continues to utilize live animals such as
    dogs in student surgical training exercises when schools such as Yale, Harvard and
    Stamford have all abandoned the practice in favor of humane alternatives. In May
    2006, the health advocacy group Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine
    submitted a letter to UMC notifying them that “their use of live animals in student
    training exercises is unlawful under the federal Animal Welfare Act because
    alternatives are readily available.”
Photos from a 2005 undercover investigation at contract testing firm and primate supplier. Covance Laboratories.  The macaques above
are used for drug testing at Covance before they are eventually sent to labs like the one at UMC and UCHC to be abused and killed.
All sentient animals (human and
non-) have an inherent value that
exists outside of their utility to
others.  We recognize this value
and afford these individuals the
right to be treated in a manner
that is respectful of it.  To act in
a way that reduces animals
(human and non-) to mere
resources for others to exploit
for food, experimentation,
clothing or entertainment is a
violation of this right and it is our
obligation to insure that such
exploitation does not continue.