04-03-2019, 04:42 PM
Since 1982 the United States Department of Agriculture has been using kittens to conduct research on Toxoplasmosis.
The kittens were fed infected meat and the eggs of the parasite were harvested. The kittens were then killed. Over 3000 kittens have been killed.
In March legislation called the Kitten Act was introduced to put an end to the slaughter.
The remaining 14 cats will be adopted out and the project has been ended.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47795500#_=_
This project has been going on for 37 years. That means they have been repeating the same things over and over.
Worse, Toxoplasmosis is treatable so infected cats could have been cured and adopted out. They just chose to keep needlessly experimenting on kittens and killing them.
It is a good thing this is over, but it is also about time it was over. I commend the legislators who supported this bill and ended the killing.
The kittens were fed infected meat and the eggs of the parasite were harvested. The kittens were then killed. Over 3000 kittens have been killed.
In March legislation called the Kitten Act was introduced to put an end to the slaughter.
The remaining 14 cats will be adopted out and the project has been ended.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47795500#_=_
This project has been going on for 37 years. That means they have been repeating the same things over and over.
Worse, Toxoplasmosis is treatable so infected cats could have been cured and adopted out. They just chose to keep needlessly experimenting on kittens and killing them.
It is a good thing this is over, but it is also about time it was over. I commend the legislators who supported this bill and ended the killing.
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Catherine
