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# Why Are They Injecting Pregnant Sheep with Alcohol?
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/injecting_pregnant_sheep_with_alcohol_0519140117/
- Published: 2014-05-19T14:17:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:31:35.000Z
- Description: A letter from the Physicians Committee asks readers to urge Texas A&M's president to halt federally funded experiments in which pregnant sheep are injected with alcohol and their near-term lambs are killed so the brains can be studied.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Miscellaneous, Health News, #vivvo-import

I'm writing to ask for your help with ending cruel, unnecessary experiments conducted at Texas A&M University. In these experiments, pregnant sheep are injected with alcohol to simulate the effects of binge drinking. When their fetuses are near-term, the sheep are killed and the lambs are removed and killed so that their brains can be studied. [**Please ask the president of Texas A&M to immediately halt these experiments**](http://support.pcrm.org/site/R?i=OEKO48VN3JYIUeMinKpDvQ&ref=foodconsumer.org).

We all know that fetal alcohol syndrome is a serious public health issue and that it should be addressed. But the experiments at Texas A&M, which have been going on for more than 17 years and received more than $4 million in federal funding, are not helping a single mother or child. Instead of wasting money and harming animals, Texas A&M and the researcher's funder, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, should redirect research to programs that could help reduce the rate of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

What American mothers and their future children need is the implementation and careful testing of interventions to prevent alcohol use during pregnancy, biomarkers and imaging techniques to aid in the detection of fetal alcohol syndrome as early as possible, and treatment and support measures for individuals and families affected by the disease.

[**Please join us in calling on Texas A&M to halt these experiments immediately—to save animals and help people**](http://support.pcrm.org/site/R?i=QpPv%5F%5FgaiGaKUts1jTuVGg&ref=foodconsumer.org).

To bring attention to this issue, the Physicians Committee recently placed two billboards near the Texas A&M campus and advertisements in two Texas newspapers. The billboards urge Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to help cut the wasteful spending directed at these experiments. See [recent media coverage of our efforts](http://support.pcrm.org/site/R?i=UWQbCkuTFp%5FXaSA0zZBY4Q&ref=foodconsumer.org).

Thank you for your help.

Very truly,

Sarah Cavanaugh, Ph.D.  
Medical Research Specialist