[SouthBayVeggies] Electrosurgical tools and cruelty to pigs

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The " disgusting " part isn't the research and existence and testing of

the tools, but rather the torturing of live pigs in marketing

demonstrations.

 

 

At 1:39 PM -0700 8/21/08, Channa Rosenblatt wrote:

Hi,

 

I too am a vegetarian, and I'm a nurse as well.

 

My friend Jean had a laminectomy with severe complications two years

ago. She was 49 and lost her ability to walk for 15 month. I was with

her every day.

 

My friend was saved by surgery with electrosurgical tools. I am

certain they were tested on animals.

 

If you have a spinal cord injury, or you are pregnant and surgery

needs to be performed to save your unborn, or if you require head

surgery of any kind to save your life, electrosurgical tools will be

used. All electrosurgical tools are tested on animals.

 

By the time they are used to save your life, or that of someone whose

life is precious to you, the medical staff already knows these tools

are safe. They certainly won't test them right there on the person

whose life is in the balance.

 

If you are in a wheelchair all of a sudden, and spinal surgery would

give you back your chances of walking again, and you knew the spinal

surgery would be performed with electrosurgical tools that have most

assuredly been tested on animals, would you wheel yourself out of the

surgical suite and refuse treatment?

 

Would you refuse treatment for your son or your daughter? Your aging parents?

 

Please do not dismiss this issue by claiming these are cliches. They

aren't. Medical precision tools MUST be tested on live animals.

 

Doris called this a " disgusting practice " . I certainly could not do

it. I don't even kill spiders. But I also know I would fall to the

floor, weeping with gratitude, if someone whose life is connected to

my soul, can be saved with a medical procedure using electrosurgical

tools.

 

If it came to saving my 16-year-old son, I would hold down the pig

myself if that was what it would take.

 

I am a nurse; I am a vegetarian. I despise cruelty. It is partially

due to my ability to love that I chose a career that saves people and

fights for the life of those who cannot fight on their own.

 

Consider broadening your hearts and minds to electrosurgical tools,

and broadening your hearts and minds to the staff and hospitals whose

daily calling leads them to saving - perhaps us, one day.

 

In peace,

Channa

 

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On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Doris Sarni

<<dsarni%40sbcglobal.net>dsarni wrote:

 

Hi friends,

I know that this event has already happened and many animals were

cruelly treated and killed. But I think it might be worth it to email

this company and let them know how disgusted you are with their

practices.. It sounds like they do this regularly at surgical clinics

to sell their products.

Thanks,

Doris

 

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PCRM Research Program Coordinator Ryan Merkley

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<dsarni%40sbcglobal.net>dsarni

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 2:30:12 PM

Help Stop Cruel Pig Lab Scheduled for August 7

 

Dear Dr. Sarni,

On August 7, pigs will be killed in a ?Hands-On Pig Lab? to

demonstrate electrosurgical tools. Covidien Electrosurgery is hosting

this lab in coordination with a conference held by the Society of

Gynecologic Oncologists.

You Can Help

Covidien Electrosurgery performs laboratory tests on animals in order

to market its surgical tools. Please contact Covidien Electosurgery,

the lab?s organizers, and urge them to remove live animals from this

demonstration.

Bryan Hanson

President, Covidien Electrosurgery

phone: 303-530-2300

fax: 303-530-6285

e-mail: <bryan.hanson%40covidien.com>bryan.hanson

Formerly known as ValleyLab, Covidien has a history of controversy,

including an incident that prompted the University of Colorado at

Denver to ban all non-research animal experimentation in 2007.

The August 7 event advertises, ?Procedures that will be performed

include: ureteral dissection, pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy,

repair of simulated bowel and bladder injury, bowel resection,

ureteral re-anastomosis, and liver resection.? In other words, pigs

will be used and killed so Covidien can sell its products.

Please take action today. Thank you for your help.

Best regards,

Ryan Merkley

Research Program Coordinator

 

 

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