A more disturbing question is why was so much money set aside for this weirdness....? People making gobs of cash for torturing animals is why and how animal torture gets to be “science.”
And yeah: There are lots of Democrats and socialists to experiment on. They’ll let you do it without protest if you give them free drugs. Everybody knows that.
Why? Because they could. And because they find being cruel to animals thrilling. Yes, they are that bad.