French dog breeders allowed to sell excess dogs to labs

[Catherine]

Quote:I quite agree. This is appalling. It is to be condemned without reservation. The breeders should not be allowed to unload their excess puppies in this way.

This is shocking and we all react to it, but you are right that animal experimentation has been going on for centuries. It happens all around us, everyday, in universities and drug companies. Medical research and product testing go through horrific numbers of animals. Using animals for so called science has become a way of life for us.

I don't know when it started. I think Descartes would have been a product of his time. No one reacted to his animal torture because others would have been doing similar things. They were not afraid to experiment on poor human children. Experimenting on animals would have been nothing to them. It is so deeply ingrained in our methodologies that even knowing it doesn't work isn't enough to stop it. Scientists work for years on projects that torture many animals and give no useful results and it never occurs to them to stop. As long as there is money to pay for it people will keep on doing it.

This current issue is just part of a larger problem. It needs to be fought and full outrage expressed. If possible breeders need to be exposed for what they are doing. Best not to buy a dog from any breeder that has so many puppies that they would consider selling them to labs.

As always, boycott products that come from companies that use animal testing. Some day humans have to give up these practices. We need to be better than that.