Saving Opus One has been made of aware of a horrible upcoming event where pigs will be killed and tortured. Please read the information below and help by calling or emailing the people listed and tell them that they should not be taking part in such abuse of pigs. This kind of research is cruel and unnecessary and needs to be stopped!

On August 7, Covidien Electrosurgery is hosting a lab in coordination with a conference held by the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists in which pigs will be killed and sacrificed in a "Hands-On Pig Lab" to demonstrate
electrosurgical tools.

Covidien Electrosurgery, who devised the "Pig Lab", is a company that performs laboratory tests on animals in order to market its surgical tools.

Formerly known as ValleyLab, Covidien has a history of controversy, including an incident that prompted the University of Colorado at Denver to ban all non-research vivisection in 2007.

The August 7 event advertises, "Procedures that will be performed include: ureteral dissection, pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy, repair of simulated bowel and bladder injury, bowel resection, ureteral re-anasomosis, and liver resection."

In other words, pigs will be mutilated and cut apart at the August 7 event so that Covidien can hawk its wares to buyers.

You Can Help
1. Please contact Covidien Electosurgery, the Pig Lab organizers, and urge them to remove live animals from their demonstration.

Bryan Hanson
President, Covidien Electrosurgery 
ph: 303-530-2300
fax: 303-530-6285
e-mail: bryan.hanson@covidien.com

2.  Politely contact the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists and urge them to not promote such live animal labs.
ph:  312-235-4060  
fax: 312-235-4059
e-mail: sgo@sgo.org and jenna.cummins@sgo.org

3.  Please contact your federal representative and urge him or her to co-sponsor H.R. 2193- legislation that will amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit the use of animals for marketing medical devices.  You can find out who represents you by going to
http://action.farmsanctuary.org/legislatorlookup.   The sponsors of this bill are Reps. Steve Israel (D-NY) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) and if your member of Congress has already become a cosponsor, please thank them!