The USDA kittens are forced Cannibals for research, the report says watchdog

Updated April 2: The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the USDA on Tuesday announced it will realign its research toxoplasmosis, and that “the use of dogs as part of a research protocol at any ARS laboratory has been set and there play “Fourteen cats that are currently part be used. the research program are also USDA employees are assumed according to the statement. In response, the white coat Waste President Project Anthony Bellotti said in a statement that the excited group “happy that after a year of intense campaign of White Coat Project Waste and our 2 million members and supporters, as well as the leadership of dozens of Republican and democratic members of Congress, the kitten USDA slaughterhouse was finally banished to the history litter. “a shocking statements watchdog report issued by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) of $22.5 million” useless research and unjustifiable “, which involved killing cats and forces” Kitten cannibalism “, performing among other unsavory practices. The report – by the nonprofit White Coat Environment Project, which opposes the government of animal experiments, and former USDA scientist Jim Keen – says a large part refers to this research toxoplasmosis, a disease spread by exposure to the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, it was not until 2015, according to the report, the USDA and dogs and cats purchased from countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have killed, and fed the parts of the body to the lab to force purebred cats and other animals for research effectively what the watchdog reports refer to as “cannibalism kitty” cat’s remains were purchased in China, also injected into mice, according to the document. “Dog and cat meat an abnormal diet for cats, dogs and mice, so it’s probably irrelevant to the natural biology is toxoplasmosis,” the report said. “Your scientific relevance and justification is questionable at best, as its relevance to the American public health as we do not consume dogs and cats, and the practice is now banned in the US,” the spokesman at the USDA Agricultural Research Service has the accuracy of the report does not explicitly stated, when asked about the weather. “The Agricultural Research Service continue our efforts on how to better assess research toxoplasmosis behavior safeguarding the health of the American people,” the spokesman said. “USDA remains committed to protecting the safety of the US food supply and maintains the strictest adherence to ethical standards and best management practices.” T. gondii is very common, and can transfer the disease that occurs through contact with spoiled food, cat feces or mother-son but most of the people who are exposed never develop symptoms of toxoplasmosis, according to the Mayo Clinic . And ‘very serious for people with weakened immune systems, and pregnant women and their babies. Cats are the only animal in which T. gondii can be completed its entire life cycle, those that traditionally toxoplasmosis research have been used to the new report says. According to the report, research at the Agricultural Research Service of Animal Parasitic Disease Laboratory in Maryland conducted specifically involved to feed them raw meat infected with T. gondii breeding. then collected in food safety research to gather researchers from cat faeces to use the parasite eggs, and killed the animals after the eggs stopped over – despite the fact that the veterinary experts have said it would be no risk to public health if have been set up for adoption, the report said. The program cost 1.982 billion from $22.5 kills more than 3,000 cats, according to the report. “USDA kitten Toxoplasmosis animal testing causes unnecessary pain and suffering little or no scientific value and waste millions of taxpayer dollars as a result of intra eternal federal funds are not competitive,” the report said. The Waste white coat before the USDA research project toxoplasmosis highlighted in a study last year, the new report says. The lawmakers last year introduced the kitten in traumatic Testing Ends Now (kitten) Act, which calls for an end to this type of research cat. It ‘was introduced this month in Congress yet again, NBC News reported. “The fact that the USDA pets and other innocent dogs and cats abroad rounding was convicted in Chinese meat markets -including by Congress – to kill them, and again here in the US is the supply of laboratory cats just disgusting and inexcusable “Florida Rep. Brian mast, who co-sponsored the legislation, said NBC. image copyright
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