The USDA is turning lab cats into cannibals by forcing them to eat feline meat, watchdog group says
A cat and her kittens in this undated file photo. By Eli Rosenberg Eli Rosenberg General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow March 19 at 8:37 PM Government scientists fed its lab cats the meat of other cats and dogs, purchased in markets overseas, according to a new report from an advocacy organization devoted to eliminating wasteful spending in research.
The report notes that some of the cats and dogs had been purchased from overseas markets that were condemned in a resolution in the House last year, which urged other countries, specifically in Asia, to ban the consumption of animals commonly kept as pets in the United States. In 2017, Taiwan made it illegal to slaughter dogs and cats for human consumption.
Keen, who is now an academic but said he does work for the White Coat Waste Project voluntarily, said in a phone interview that he found the details about cats being fed cats and dogs by scouring research papers published by the USDA and affiliated departments. The practice of eating dogs and even cats in some countries has drawn more scrutiny in recent years, with a spotlight trained on events like a dog meat festival in Yulin, China.
Science magazine notes that the group won’t go after “untold millions of mice, rats, and even dogs owned by pharmaceutical companies, biotech corporations, and other industry labs." The White Coat Waste Project has been taking aim at the cat testing program for months, including a lawsuit it filed last year against the USDA that claimed that the agency was blocking Freedom of Information requests for information about the cats experimented on in Beltsville. Bills to end the killing of kittens at the lab, called the KITTEN Act, were introduced in Congress by Rep. Mike Bishop and Merkley last year. And they were reintroduced this year as well, but they have not been acted on.
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