Posted on 05/24/2018 9:45:44 AM PDT by TBP
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) breeds 100 kittens per year so they can be fed toxoplasma-infected raw meat, and scientists can collect parasites from their feces to use in experiments. The kittens, only 3 months old, are then killed and incinerated. Keep in mind, after the USDA has collected the parasites, the kittens are healthy and could easily be adopted out to the public. But that’s not how the USDA works.
This program has been receiving tax money since 1970 — currently $650,000 a year — and has been based in Maryland since 1982. It’s much closer to home than you realize.
A D.C.-based watchdog group called White Coat Waste Project (WCW) exposed this disgusting, inhumane practice. WCW reports on its website, “The USDA kills all of the kittens, even though it admits that virtually all of them are healthy after the experiments. Expert authorities — including the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — agree that Toxoplasma-exposed cats are safe and adoptable because after just one Toxoplasma exposure, cats shed the parasite, become immune and won’t transmit to humans or other animals.”
Are you comfortable with your tax dollars paying for that?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Paging PETA.
Would it matter to you if the animal were a rat or mouse?
Damn, what are we.........China, Korea and all those countries that kill and eat PETS???????? Outrageous!
My only concern is what’s the justification for continuing the program after 40 years? What are they learning? Is it useful? Does it save human lives?
While the kittens are adoptable, my understanding is that shelters are overrun with kittens anyway, so if you put these up for adoption, you’re just going to displace other kittens at the shelter.
Could the program use kittens from shelters instead of breading their own?
Not for unnecessary animal cruelty, but not against animal testing to save or improve human lives.
But at least you can see when you walk them. :)
Killing the excess cats is likely much cheaper than giving them to a a shelter to kill.
We have far, far, more cats than we have people who are willing to take them.
Ok, you beat me on that one.
But they’re deliberately bred to test and then kill. That’s not right.
To make a WAG, I’d say the reason it continues after 40 years is because only about 50 grand of that nearly 3/4 million actually go for the tests, and the balance finds its way into a few high-ranking pockets.
But they’re deliberately bred to test and then kill. That’s not right.
I agree that the program should be considered for the ax. What are they really accomplishing.
Experiment on liberals instead.
What is done with them after they're breaded? Deep-frying or roasting?
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I know, I know --- I'm a baaaad boy!
Why are we doing any of it and spending tax money on it? Don’t they have all of the information they could ever need after, oh, 40 YEARS!
PETA kills way more kittens than that per year.
Not surprised for a government that pays for abortion, sex-”change” operations, aids treatment, and euthanasia.
Does it save human lives? Human suffering?
Then I’m okay with taxpayer funds being used for this.
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