Posted on 02/04/2021 11:27:32 AM PST by RandFan
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals surprised GOP Sen. Rand Paul today with a great big hug for questioning costly and weird animal tests funded by Uncle Sam.
In a letter to the Kentucky senator, the animal rights group credited him for prompting those who experiment on animals to reveal details of their secretive world.
“We urge you to keep telling it like it is and do all you can to redirect funds from studies to superior animal-free methods,” wrote PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo in the letter shared with Secrets.
At issue is Paul’s annual report on government waste that he titles “Festivus,” named after the fake Seinfeld holiday of the “airing of grievances.”
His latest report mentioned that "researchers used grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs worth $4,575,431.00 to spray alcoholic rats with bobcat urine.”
That led somebody PETA identified as a Louisiana State University professor to tweet that Paul was “incorrectly” describing his work as “spraying alcoholic rats with bobcat piss.”
He then challenged others in the field to tweet how they think Paul would describe their work. Answers included “shocks lady rats until they run away” and “mice running on a homemade Peloton chasing imaginary cocaine.”
PETA called it a “rare and self-revelatory glimpse into a very secretive world.”
The group that helped Paul draw up his report also gave credit to Paul for calling out abuses in animal testing.
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I look around and see all the issues that gov’t should be addressing from election fraud to Covid-19, and I really don’t give a rat’s ass how rats are treated.
Oh, I thought they meant tests on alcoholic DEMOCRATS!
I thought that at first. It’s funny just for that.
I agree: Test on Pelosi.
I was looking for the Babylon Bee byline, to be honest.
:)
you care about the 4 million?
And yes, now we know you are a tough guy because you don’t give a damn about absurd, money wasting tests on rats.
Festivus, huh?
The man has a sense of humor! I already liked him, but this is great!
Jerry Stiller is laughing in Heaven. He and his wife Anne Meara were a gifted comedy team. And they often worked with their children, Ben Stiller and the woman; her name escapes me now.
Alcoholic Democrats...probably lots of those in D.C.
Maybe we can get $14 million to study gender roles of drunken rats.
Read what I said again. I’m saying the same thing, just a different way.
This is a rare moment of intellectual honesty from a leftist. They are still nuts, but it was a nice gesture.
"Global warming is a hoax"?
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