US gov't scientists bought 100s of dead dogs and cats from 'Asian meat markets' and conducted experiments that included feeding their remains to healthy lab cats, according to a disturbing watchdog report being released Tuesday. - darehgregorian
The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, the Agriculture Department's agricultural research center and library in Beltsville, Maryland, on Aug. 30, 2016.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.U.S.
The experiments — some of which the agency said in scientific reports were aimed at studying different forms of a parasite that causes the food-borne illness toxoplasmosis — are believed to have been conducted between 2003 and 2015. The animals that were euthanized to be used as lab food included over 400 dogs from Colombia, Brazil and Vietnam and over 100 cats from China and Ethiopia.
A feline purchased by the USDA facility in Maryland stands on a table in this undated photo obtained by a FOIA request. Felines, like the one shown, are used to breed kittens for taxoplasmosis experiments.The experiments were carried out at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service's Animal Parasitic Disease Laboratory in Beltsville, Md. The facility was already under fire from some lawmakers for killing cats intentionally infected with T. Gondii, the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis.
"It's totally unrelated to the food safety mission," Keen said."We shouldn't be paying for that as taxpayers." The studies conducted using animals from China said"the cats were killed humanely according to PRC laws for slaughtering of food animal ." The WCW report calls that claim"concerning and deceptive," and pointed to the 2018
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