Company claims Brazil made them conduct the horrific beagle experiments
Undercover investigation into Charles River Laboratories – Mattawan, MI. This is one of twenty-one beagles killed in a test of two substances that have been on the market for years. The two drugs were infused into the beagles’ lung areas after they were surgically opened to expose the area. The study was sponsored by Paredox Therapeutics which was supported by the University of Vermont with a $1.366 million grant.
A Michigan lab owned by a subsidiary of DowDuPont Corp. has terminated a study in which beagles were force-fed agricultural chemicals, then were euthanized, after the practice was exposed by a Humane Society undercover investigation. The research amounted to animal torture because some of the dogs suffered for months. The company admitted “there are better ways to get the data” but claims Brazilian regulators required the testing. Even though the lab has now stopped this horrific mistreatment of the dogs, you have to wonder about the ethics of a company that would do such a thing in the first place and only quit doing it because they were caught. Read story here.
Photo: One of the dogs killed in the DowduPont pesticide experiments, shown confined in a metal box cage, with shaved skin and surgical scar plainly visible.
Comment: Is this even legal? Is “research” exempt from animal cruelty laws? If the researchers have to be licensed, isn’t this unethical under their professional conduct code? And even if it’s legal and professionally allowable, wouldn’t any person of normal sensibility walk away from such a job? If you or I did this (God forbid), we’d be criminally prosecuted and get five years — and we’d deserve it.