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Feds Issue Official Warning to Ohio State University After Pig Dies on Operating Table: PETA Statement

For Immediate Release:
August 5, 2025

Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Columbus, Ohio –

Please see the following statement from PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo regarding the just-posted Official Warning issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture against Ohio State University after an anesthetized pig suffered and died during surgery because staff failed to open a valve while switching breathing tubes, causing the pig to have difficulty breathing, leading to cardiac arrest:

Veterinary staff who don’t know how to operate anesthesia equipment is a huge red flag about Ohio State University’s entire experimentation program. Killing animals accidentally before killing them on purpose indicates that the school should stop tormenting animals altogether and shift immediately to state-of-the-art animal-free research methods that will actually help humans. To facilitate this, PETA urges the National Institutes of Health to shut off the flow of money to the university, which has proven it cannot or will not meet the bare minimum requirements of federal animal care regulations.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

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