OHSU Ordered to Pay PETA $400K+ After Hiding Videos of Experiments on Voles

In a resounding victory for transparency and accountability, a court ordered Oregon Health & Science University to pay PETA more than $400,000, after the university went to extreme and illegal lengths to keep hidden videos of cruel experiments on voles, during which the animals were given the equivalent of 15 bottles of wine a day in attempts to draw conclusions about the impact of human alcohol consumption on infidelity.

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 Ingrid E. Newkirk

“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind