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TO RUSSIA FROM YOU-GOV: U.S. government funding cruel and deadly kitten experiments in Russia lab

In one ghoulish experiment, 18 healthy cats were 'decerebrated,' then forced to walk on a treadmill. Decebration is a procedure in which experimenters cut off a cat’s brain function while they are still alive.

MARYANN HUSSEY: The U.S. has been sending money to Russia’s state-run labs for monstrous experiments on kittens… The experiments, recently unearthed by WCW researchers, are some of the worst we’ve ever seen — and that’s saying something… Cat experimenters at Russia’s Pavlov Institute of Physiology in St. Petersburg, Russia, received nearly $550,000 from the N.I.H. in 2021 alone…

In one ghoulish experiment, 18 healthy cats were “decerebrated,” then forced to walk on a treadmill. “Decebration” is a procedure in which experimenters cut off a cat’s brain function while they are still alive. The cats are knocked out and their brain stems are severed, and sometimes, pieces of their brain are even removed. The “zombie” cats then have electrodes implanted into their spines and are forced to walk on treadmills…

If that sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because these same experiments are done on kittens here at home, too. Having to pay for these experiments in America is bad enough. So why does Uncle Sam want us to pay for these experiments in Russia, too? We’ve uncovered that you’ve been paying this Russian lab to torture cats in experiments like this one since 2018 (see here and here). Here’s a diagram from the experimenters…

Electrocuting zombie cats to make them move. Utterly horrifying. The fact that we’re paying for this? “Disgusting” doesn’t even begin to cover it… WCW researchers also found experiments at the same Russian government lab — which, thankfully, American tax dollars did not fund — involving injecting chemicals into dogs’ brains, implanting electrodes in monkeys’ brains, and removing the brains from kittens as young as 4 days old…

The NIH spent around $140 million on animal experiments in foreign countries in 2020. A total of 353 labs in 57 countries worldwide are authorized to receive U.S. taxpayer funds — including countries like China and Russia, which the U.S. government has called “foreign adversaries”… The White Coat Waste Project-backed AFAR Act, from Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) legislation would prohibit tax dollars from funding animal experiments in countries that have been deemed foreign adversaries by the U.S. government. SOURCE…

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