NDSU’s live pig use in trauma training class with Sanford Health under fire
October 27, 2011 at 5:02 am in Grand Forks Herald
A Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group believes the practice of killing pigs during North Dakota State University and Sanford’s Advanced Trauma Life Support class violates the state’s animal cruelty law and doesn’t fall within the exemption for scientific research because it’s a training program. Continue Reading
The PCRM is mostly an animal rights group, closely aligned with PETA and other fairly extreme groups in the animal rights world. The individual target here is the ATLS program which NDSU facilitates for Sanford. However, the goal is the elimination of any use of animals to benefit humans (food, medical research, hunting etc). The leader of PCRM is a Fargo born physician so PCRM has special interest in, and is on the lookout for, opportunities in Fargo.
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