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PETA Buys Shares of DeVry

If PETA is unsuccessful in getting the school to change its practices at the shareholders meeting, they intend to file a shareholders resolution next year demanding an end to inhumane practices.
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518 Reads | | Post a commentPublished August 26, 2008 - 2:08 PM
PETA Buys Shares of DeVry
The Loop, Chicago, Ill. —  

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals bought 65 shares of Chicago-based  DeVry University last week, part of a plan to escalate its campaign against the technical school's veterinary program.

PETA plans to show up at DeVry's November 13 shareholders meeting to stage a protest and appeal to the board. According to the animal welfare organization, the St. Kitts-based Ross University veterinary school requires their students to operate on healthy animals.

PETA charges that "healthy dogs have their stomachs, intestines and urinary bladders needlessly cut open. Sheep have tissue removed and suffer from infected wounds because skin flaps are improperly sutured.

 

Read the Windy Citizen's story on Ross University: Dying to learn: Veterinary student suing Chicago-based DeVry over terminal surgeries.

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