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When you think of how animals are normally treated in labs, how bad was it that the treatment of the animals stood out as cruelty.
This was abuse above and beyond what the animals endure. 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/german-lab-...-1.4644912

I am glad that this is being investigated and something is going to be done. However, it would make more sense to go a little further and recognize that the testing is cruelty and put a stop to that too.  The institutionalized cruelty of the testing of animals leads directly to other forms of animal abuse. When your job involves doing cruel things to animals there is not much incentive to treat them well in other ways.

To stop animal care cruelty in labs you would have to stop animal testing.
The sort of people who choose to do such work is bound to include some who enjoy giving pain. This is appalling and I can only hope that the adverse publicity will stop this lab from conducting such cruel and unnecessary experiments.
Quote:The sort of people who choose to do such work is bound to include some who enjoy giving pain. This is appalling and I can only hope that the adverse publicity will stop this lab from conducting such cruel and unnecessary experiments.
You are right about the type of people who would take such jobs in the first place. They would have to lack empathy for the animals they work with.

I think any kind of publicity is helpful if it makes the public aware of what goes on in labs. If the truth makes people uncomfortable it might influence their choices. Many of us choose to avoid products that were tested on animals. The more people know the truth, the more likely they are to make the same choices. Companies become aware of trends like that and respond to them.

If some companies can produce products that are not tested on animals why can't all companies produce products that are not tested on animals.
I asked how bad could they have been treating animals in the lab and I found out.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...german-lab

Sadly even if the lab had been following "humane" lab guidelines it still would have been horrific.
This company has been fined by the German authorities in the past (cf the last article you cited). This was because in Germany inspectors have the right to visit without warning. In the UK, vivisection facilities are only visited by Home Office inspectors following a letter sent prior to visit. That means that many of the horrors are never uncovered. That is an ongoing problem in the UK, unrelated to the cruelty case mentioned here.
The UK should do unannounced visits, like Germany. That is a complete sham !

Re: the original post....how awful. Lab animals go through a terrible life, suffering enough in their short time, without cruelty added. Poor Souls.
The unannounced visits are far more effective. If nothing else a lab might be more careful just incase of an inspection.


I want to hope for better inspections and regulations for labs, but no I want the testing to stop. All this animal testing with its inherent cruelty is not producing any meaningful results.  The lab in the video was doing toxicity tests, but all those dead animals don't tell us if something is toxic to humans. Something could past lab tests and yet turn out to be very toxic to humans.