Animal rights

For those interested in animal rights... an interesting study is being done at the Oregon Health and Science University. Apparently they've decided that the best use of animal lives is for a study being done to see if they can figure out the hormone that causes homosexuality. "WHAT???", you say? "Is this the Dark Ages, or what?", you say? I guess so. Here's more information:

Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), a school that has received criticism in the past for torturing monkeys in its labs, has officially been outed. Information has been brought to light about ridiculous “gay sheep” experiments that are being conducted at the school. You heard right—OHSU experimenter Charles Roselli is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to kill homosexual rams and cut open their brains in an attempt to find the hormone behind homosexual tendencies so that these tendencies can be changed. Roselli is also working with experimenter Frederick Stormshak of Oregon State University (OSU), who has surgically inserted an estrogen implant in the bodies of these rams in an effort “to restore tissue levels of estrogen comparable to those of heterosexual rams and affect sexual behavior accordingly.”To put it simply, these experimenters believe that homosexuality is a defect that needs to be fixed, and they’re cutting open and killing gay sheep to do it. Roselli has made it very clear that he intends to use the findings of his experiments to “cure” humans next. In his application for public funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), he states that “this research also has broader implications for understanding the development and control of sexual motivation and mate selection across mammalian species, including humans.”

-source,
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/
p2gaysheepexperiments?c=p2ggsheep
PETA

Well, for gay rights and animal rights activists alike, this is ridiculous and scary. The immediate action to be taken can be found on the website, at the link I put right there. They have a form to email the presidents of the university and let them know that we're not ok with such craziness.

PETA is a great organization in many ways. I mean, it's not like I agree with everything having to do with them, but what organization is 100% what I'd want? And why should they be! Ahem, anyway. They have some great volunteer and other opportunities outlined very nicely on this page: http://www.peta.org/actioncenter/.

Take this opportunity to help out creatures that are powerless to help themselves, as well as to tell OHSU that what they're doing is just wrong on SO many levels.