PETA Urges Funding Cuts for Aussie Animal Strangulation Tests at Monash University

PETA is renewing its calls for retractions of Monash University’s rat strangulation papers, including one published last month, and a cut in taxpayer funding after its authors failed to adequately defend their cruel experiments. A laboratory at the Melbourne university has strangled rats, bashed them over the head with weights, and forced them to swim until exhaustion, supposedly to mimic human domestic abuse.In a joint letter sent to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC