Below you will find the response I got in regard to their video, "Getting
Away With Murder."
 
Thank you for your message to PETA.
 
Our "Getting Away With Murder" video is one of many examples of useless
and cruel experiments on animals.
 
The video footage was filmed by an undergraduate student and an ecology
professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.
Their so-called "predator study," which involved throwing tame mice,
rats, and rabbits into an enclosed tub where they were attacked and
killed by domestic ferrets, was neither reviewed nor approved by the SUNY
animal use committee, as is required for all animal experiments.  Dr.
Mark Lerman, medical director of Lifeline for Wildlife, commented that
the ferret studies served "no useful purpose whatsoever.  The conduct
of the experimenters is both morally repugnant and scientifically
offensive."
 
Through diligent detective work, the student and professor responsible
for these voyeuristic cruelties were identified and publicly exposed, and
the case was investigated by SUNY and government agencies.  Releasing
this video provided proof of horrific cruelty on the part of university
experimenters that would not have been discovered--or
believed--otherwise.
 
To learn more about animal experiments and why we oppose them, please see
our Web site www.StopAnimalsTests.com.
 
Thank you again for writing and for everything you do for animals.
 
Sincerely,
Paula Moore
Staff Writer
[Posted in FML issue 4076]