This is quite a long-running story. It was exposed some months ago. At a USDA testing centre (the Agricultural Research Service – ARS) young cats were being fed with Toxoplasma gondii infected cat meat imported from China and I believe dog meat as well. The …
The USDA purchased toxoplasmosis infected dead cats from the objectionable Asian cat meat markets in order to feed them to hundreds of young cats over many years at an animal testing facility in Beltsville, Maryland. They also purchased dogs from the domestic animal meat markets …
A dental study on six black labradors is in the process of taking place at Gothenburg University, Sweden. The dogs have to be killed in order to assess the success of the process being tested. They had a third of their teeth pulled and replaced …
To “improve carcass merit” means to boost livestock industry profits. It’s a euphemism for animal abuse, in truth. I’m referring to the taxpayer-funded USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in Nebraska, the world’s largest livestock research center. A whistleblower, Jim Keen, writing on the truthabout.org …
This is questionable behaviour in my opinion. Chinese scientists say they have cloned five baby monkeys from a genetically edited macaque monkey with a brain disorder. The intention is to create cloned versions of this monkey so that they can do animal testing on them. …