According to an article in the Detroit News today, PETA has filed a formal complaint against the University of Michigan for using live cats and pigs in nurses survival flight training. Michigan claims there is no alternative to live tissue in this training, and nurses need this kind of training. PETA claims that Michigan already uses simulators for its other similar programs, and has found them to be superior.
Most schools don't use live tissue in training. In 2009,the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine asked the USDA to investigate UM's use of dogs in the trauma center, which has been discontinued.
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