USDA scientists fed cat hearts and brains to other cats, then euthanized them—report
Scientists working for the U.S. government purchased hundreds of cats and dogs from meat markets in foreign countries and fed their tongues, brains, and hearts to other animals, a newly released report from an animal rights campaigning group has claimed.
According to the White Coat Waste Project, kittens and cats are used in the government tests as they are the “only host animal in which [the infection] can complete its life cycle.” It said U.S. scientists had bought and killed hundreds of pets, strays and unwanted cats and dogs from countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America as recently as 2015. In some cases, they were acquired from meat markets in China and Vietnam, the group alleged. Tissues from the slain animals were being fed to the USDA’s lab-bred cats and other animals, it said.
The project reportedly receives $650,000 a year in taxpayer funds. Since 1982, when the tests started, scientists have spent $22.5 million and killed more than 3,000 cats, the report said.
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