Cats are given painful spinal cord injuries, implanted with experimental devices, and then fake faeces are forced into their rectums. At the end, the cats are killed.
DEBBIE WHITE: Frightening experiments on America’s cats include snapping their spines and injecting potato up their bums for “research”, sickening records show. Barbaric tests on moggies as young as six months old for constipation and incontinence experiments involve the implantation of electrodes to stimulate bladders and colons, say campaigners.
Gut-wrenching photos and video of cats being operated on to insert devices have been provided exclusively to The Sun by the White Coat Waste Project, which obtained them through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The group was given receipts showing that thousands of dollars are being spent on lab cats supplied for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) research. These include a tabby called Milo; Oreo, a black and white cat; and tabbies Prince, Otis and Joey – all used for constipation research.
The Veterans Department says it has been granted approval to use felines to help Americans with debilitating illnesses. For example bladder-based research was needed as, “more than 15 million Americans face the challenges of incontinence, frequent urination, or dysfunctional voiding”, where people struggle to pass stools”…
But, the VA has been slammed by the White Coat Waste Projects as “taxpayers are being forced to pay over $500,000-$1million (£782,000) per year for this waste and abuse. “Using the FOIA, we have obtained never-before-seen videos, photos and other documents detailing constipation experiments in a US govt lab.
“Cats are given spinal cord injuries, implanted with experimental devices, and then fake faeces are forced into their rectums. “At the end, the cats are killed,” the group says… Analysis of medical records obtained via the FOIA show the experiments and procedures cause the cats “distress, seizures, bloody urine, and depression”, the group found.
It’s accused the VA of “torturing cats as young as six months old in cruel and wasteful constipation and incontinence experiments”… Instead of using animals, the tests “could be done in human volunteers which would give results directly related to people”, WCW urged. From initial information released so far, two of the experiments show approval to “use and kill 35 cats”, the campaigners added…
Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy at the taxpayer watchdog group, told The Sun: “Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay millions for VA bureaucrats to buy healthy cats, cripple and mutilate them, and videotape their abuse in wasteful, bizarre and deadly constipation experiments.” SOURCE…
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