Posted on 04/18/2025 7:25:46 AM PDT by MrRelevant
Harvard academics have warned they will be forced to euthanize animals used for medical research because of Donald Trump’s $2.2 billion funding freeze.
They will also be forced to fire workers, and withdraw critical funding for cancer and ALS patients, CNN reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Sorry to hear about your kitty. We had to do it three times in less than 18 months. And it’s tough every single time. Note to self, never get three cats who are less than three years apart.
That is sad, but that was always going to be the fate of those lab animals.
I know it is not an easy decision but you made the right one. You are a good pet owner.
Next will be the graduate assistants :>
Where is PETA when you need them?
For various reasons I doubt they are adoptable.
So the ‘propals’ better watch out.
if true, the msm will have a field day with this one. they’ ll be crying “ MURDER. MURDER, MURDER” SMDH
We see them for what they are.
3 times?! I’m very sorry.
2 xanax are the only thing that are making it possible for me to get there.
I had no idea it would be so rough...i never had a cat before.
Oh but your house must have been so much fun before the sad days. A full house :)
Like I said in another post, my mom and lady got me the cat when I was in ICU 17 years ago.
Never even dreamed I’d have a cat one day.
Now I can’t imagine life without him.
Oh well.
May I recommend they just shut the joint down. When Davy Hogg is you rising star, your not doing a very good job.
I know.
PETA only cares about self righteous speeches, conferences and any cause approved by the Comrades in charge. In other words, whatever their Ivy League graduate leadership tells them to parrot.
Better than torturing them for years.
I think it’s probable they were going to eventually be euthanized anyway, now they’re just using this for political reasons.
the National Lampoon defense
RIP your kitty
It probably isn’t that simple legally for them to just dip into their endowments for day to day operations due to strings attached to some donations when they were made. Some endowments can be used to fund certain departments or to fund scholaships that can be offered to certain classes of students or those students who are promising music or arts students. Yale’s 53 billion in endowments isn’t just one big pool of money lying around...it’s a multiple of legally defined smaller endowments, defined scholarships , legally special awards, or legally defined funds limited to upkeep of grounds or the physical buildings but nothing else. Unless laws are passed that colleges can shift endowment funds around outside of their legally defined uses or endowment restrictions under which alumni members or businesses donated them...then such colleges are stuck. Yale can’t just draw from them to replace billions of cancelled federal funds.
Not saying Yale should get the funds but the endowment systems need to be revised and regulated via state and federal laws to allow re-allocation of endowment funds by colleges when needed.
It is true that lab animals are always euthanized after experiments are finished, at least at some point. Often they are sedated during the experiments. Very often the larger lab animals like dogs and cats were purchased from shelters that are too full. Those animals were going to be euthanized anyway, which is an unpleasant truth.
Mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs are often bred by companies specializing in that type of thing, for a specific purpose. Most all of these are euthanized after the experiment is finished.
The animals were to be euthanized after experiments anyway, so?
Propaganda headline.
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