Release the Dogs: Texas A&M President to Face PETA’s Ire During Speech

For Immediate Release:
September 26, 2022

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Amanda Hays 202-483-7382

With National Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Month (September) well underway, a pack of PETA supporters will brandish signs that read, “President Banks: Release the 9 Healthy Dogs Now,” outside the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center on Wednesday as Texas A&M University President M. Katherine Banks delivers a speech. PETA is calling for the release of nine healthy dogs who were transferred from the school’s notorious canine muscular dystrophy laboratory to veterinary school cages instead of being put up for adoption as the university had pledged to do.

When:    Wednesday, September 28, 2:30 p.m.

Where:    Outside the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center, Texas A&M University, 1002 W. George Bush Dr., College Station

“These nine dogs have never had soft beds where they can sleep, leisurely days spent in the sunshine, or families to protect them,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “They aren’t needed for experiments, PETA has offered to take them all, and we’re calling on President Banks to make that happen.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.

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