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Ep.219: Seeing the Light: Animal Experimenters' Change of Conscience and Heart.
PETA's documentary, "Test Subjects" is winning hearts and minds on the film festival circuit. The film depicts three scientists who found the moral courage to leave vivisection behind and cross over to fight for the animals. After premiering at the famed Raindance Film Festival in England, it has been nominated for best documentary short at the Lancaster International Film Festival. In honor of that, we reprise an episode on one of the scientists featured in the documentary, Dr. Frances Cheng.
In conversation with Emil Guillermo, Cheng talks about how she came from Taiwan to the U.S. to become a scientist. As a graduate student, she did a test on saturated fats on rats and learned that the physiology of rats and humans are so different that too often it renders animal tests useless.
It's the reason 95 percent of drugs tested on rats fail in human trials.
Cheng talks about how that fact began a new emotional journey for her as a scientist. She now regrets having experimented on animals but is haunted by her past actions and can't talk about it without feeling the pain of her test subjects.
Cheng now works for PETA and is proud to say she has now saved more animals than she tortured and killed as a researcher.
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Go to PETA.org for more information.
The PETA Podcast
PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.
Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.
Contact us at PETA.org
Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk
Music provided by CarbonWorks.
Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.
Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok
Or at www.amok.com
Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.
Help us grow the podcast by taking this short survey.
Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!
(Originally released Dec. 18, 2019; Reprised July 15, 2020; April 13, 2022)
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PETA's documentary, "Test Subjects" is winning hearts and minds on the film festival circuit. The film depicts three scientists who found the moral courage to leave vivisection behind and cross over to fight for the animals. After premiering at the famed Raindance Film Festival in England, it has been nominated for best documentary short at the Lancaster International Film Festival. In honor of that, we reprise an episode on one of the scientists featured in the documentary, Dr. Frances Cheng.
In conversation with Emil Guillermo, Cheng talks about how she came from Taiwan to the U.S. to become a scientist. As a graduate student, she did a test on saturated fats on rats and learned that the physiology of rats and humans are so different that too often it renders animal tests useless.
It's the reason 95 percent of drugs tested on rats fail in human trials.
Cheng talks about how that fact began a new emotional journey for her as a scientist. She now regrets having experimented on animals but is haunted by her past actions and can't talk about it without feeling the pain of her test subjects.
Cheng now works for PETA and is proud to say she has now saved more animals than she tortured and killed as a researcher.
SEE THE DOCUMENTARY NOW
Go to PETA.org for more information.
The PETA Podcast
PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.
Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.
Contact us at PETA.org
Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk
Music provided by CarbonWorks.
Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.
Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok
Or at www.amok.com
Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.
Help us grow the podcast by taking this short survey.
Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!
(Originally released Dec. 18, 2019; Reprised July 15, 2020; April 13, 2022)
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