Current Events > Wow the USDA has been experimenting on kittens for decades

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/usda-cat-experiments/index.html

and I've driven past that facility before and it is creepy as shit.
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Some highlights from the article:

A watchdog group filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking documents from the US Department of Agriculture about experiments conducted by the agency's research center in Maryland that have allegedly killed hundreds of cats by incineration.

White Coat Waste Project first learned of the experiments after noticing that a USDA database listed that cats were being used in experiments at the Beltsville facility. The group filed a FOIA request in December 2017 about those experiments and received documents in April showing that the agency had been using kittens in experiments for decades, according to Justin Goodman, White Coat Waste Project vice president for advocacy and public policy.

The documents in the initial FOIA request showed that the agency was breeding about 100 kittens a year, force-feeding them parasite-infected raw meat for two weeks, collecting their feces to harvest the parasites and then killing the kittens by incineration after using them in the experiments, according to Goodman.

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Wait until you hear about how many mice have been killed in lab experiments. it will blow your mind
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SH_expert44 posted...

Wait until you hear about how many mice have been killed in lab experiments. it will blow your mind

In all seriousness, did you suspect they were doing testing on dogs and cats? Or are you just tryin' to be a smart ass?
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Hexenherz posted...

SH_expert44 posted...

Wait until you hear about how many mice have been killed in lab experiments. it will blow your mind

In all seriousness, did you suspect they were doing testing on dogs and cats? Or are you just tryin' to be a smart ass?

I bet they have been testing on allllll kinds of animals and even people.
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SH_expert44 posted...

Wait until you hear about how many mice have been killed in lab experiments. it will blow your mind

...and then there's fruit flies.

Questionmarktarius posted...

SH_expert44 posted...

Wait until you hear about how many mice have been killed in lab experiments. it will blow your mind

...and then there's fruit flies.

And Chimps!
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So you guys don't find it kinda sad that they were infecting kittens with parasites, collecting the feces and then burning the cats to death?

I'm also pretty sure that lab testing on chimps was outlawed...
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