A piece slated to air during Sunday's "Full Measure" takes a look at the practice of using dogs in the lab. Host Sharyl Attkisson discovered that it sometimes involves running dogs on a treadmill for long periods and dissecting their hearts after they suffer deadly heart attacks.
The practice occurs nationwide in several government facilities. Anthony Bellotti and his group White Coast Waste Project want to see it end.
"What we found in the open, in our analysis of their paperwork, was that in 2016 the VA said they had not — were not — experimenting on any dogs. Didn't turn out to be the case," Bellotti said. "What we found was that they were indeed experimenting on these dogs. We're talking about experiments involving high levels of pain and distress, unrelieved by anesthesia or pain relief.
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Makes me sick to think of how these
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hope to God this is stopped.
What kind of person could stoop so
low to inflict pain/torture on
an animal----they must be mentally
unbalanced!
When I was a Medical student at John Hopkins, we received 55 gallon barrels filled with cats and dogs for dissection.
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