DC: U.S. scientists reportedly purchased hundreds of cats and dogs from Asian meat markets, used them for experiments and fed the remains to other lab cats, according to the White Coat Waste Project.
Scientists reportedly conducted the experiments at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s lab in Maryland between 2003 and 2015. The experiments involved hundreds of animals from markets in Colombia, Brazil, Vietnam, China and Ethiopia, according to the watchdog group. Some of the meat markets in question have been condemned by Congress.
“It’s crazy,” former USDA scientist Jim Keen told NBC News, which obtained a copy of the report. “Cannibal cats, cats eating dogs — I don’t see the logic.”
“It’s totally unrelated to the food safety mission,” Keen said. “We shouldn’t be paying for that as taxpayers.”
“[The Agricultural Research Service] continues to assess our operations on how to better conduct toxoplasmosis research, and we remain committed to the strictest adherence to ethical standards and the best management practices,” an ARS spokesperson told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement.
Lawmakers are already targeting the Agriculture Department labs with legislation to curb testing on cats. more
Did you ever think when you eat Chinese,
It ain’t pork or chicken but a fat siamese?
Yet the food tastes great, so you don’t complain.
But that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein.
Seems to me I ordered sweet-and-sour pork
But Garfield’s on my fork.
He’s purrin’ here on my fork.
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon,
The place that I eat every day at noon.
They can feed you cat and you’ll never know,
Once they wrap it up in dough, boy.
They fry it real crisp in dough.
Chou Lin asked if I wanted more
As he was dialin’ up his buddy at the old pet store.
I said “Not today. I lost my appetite.
There’s two cats in my belly and they want to fight.”
I was suckin’ on a Rolaid and a Tums or two,
When I swear I heard it mew, boy.
And that is when I knew,
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I gotta stop eatin’ there at noon.
They say that it’s beef or fish or pork
But it’s purrin’ there on my fork.
There’s a hair-ball on my fork.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4LW31EAuAM
AOC wants to know if cats fart?
Reminds me of a Husker Du song “How to skin a cat”. It’s noise but it’s also proof of my Minnesota street cred circa late 1980’s.
In short, if you can hear through the noise, two guys are talking about starting a cat ranch for cat skins. They ask “what shall we feed the cats?” to which they realize that they can feed the cats rats. But what shall they feed the rats? Well, they can feed the rats the dead cats. So they are going to feed the rats to the cats, the cats to the rats and then they can get the cat skins for nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qii5us2lB4
Well our last President ate dog right?
There is a pussy joke here somewhere, but I am taking the high road.
On a slightly different note, a hundred or so years ago when I was taking “Medical Science” in high skrewl, we dissected cats. Well, I was not one to waste their tabby skins, so with “Doc’s” permission I skinned them when we finished the exercise. I tanned the skins and made a cat fez which I presented to “Doc” at the end of the skrewl year and he proudly wore it on graduation day. Doc may have been twisted.
THIS CAT SUCK
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
“[The Agricultural Research Service] continues to assess our operations on how to better conduct toxoplasmosis research, and we remain committed to the strictest adherence to ethical standards and the best management practices,”
somebody needs to break it to them, that they are infected themselves.
obviously
Soylent Green Kitty Kibble
…for the record, my first job was washing dishes in a family-owned Taiwanese restaurant when I was 14, and I was like a pet after I had worked there loyally for awhile, so I was there for when they had OLD country dishes on OLD country holidays, too.
And I never saw anything weirder than a live squid they put in one of the holes of my three-hole sink until they were ready to kill it, or the chicken blood they used to make sauces after they cut the chicken’s throat to get it, or the “duck” dish where they cut off the head and feet of the duck, prepared the meat quite normally into a Spam-like consistency, then PRESSED IT BACK INTO THE SHAPE OF A DUCK AND SERVED IT WITH THE HEAD AND FEET BACK ON.
…BUT, despite their being an animal hospital not far away…I never saw a dog or a cat in the building, or in the pot.
And it was a little place, so I WOULD have.
…that said, though, you will notice that there is almost ALWAYS a vet or a pet shop around EVERY Asian restaurant. “Food” for thought…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zEfYbsrr0
Go visit Korea, it is amazing what they eat. I lost it when I passed one stall specializing in cow colon, raw. But why are we doing stupid studies like this?
1st – Horrified
2nd – Why in Hell are these numb nuts wasting money this way. This is pure crap.
3rd – Toxoplasmosis can be in soil which had been soiled by animals. The most common method of transmission is through handling raw meat directly or indirectly. Too many people cut up their meat on a surface and t hen their vegetables without adequate cleaning between the 2 actions.
All too often Doctors tell pregnant patients not to handle a cat litter box and fail to mention the other 2 methods of transmission.
Most people are immune to toxo and most cases occur outside the US.
Bottom line – I hope these sorry excuses for human beings rot in a parasite infested Hell.
Next thing you know, they’ll be funding LIGHTWORKERS
https://www.youtube.com/user/BeYourTrueSoul/videos
(SO HILARIOUS, you’ll *have* to watch at least one of the short ones!!!)
Sounds like an Obama era imperative.
Low road, Tony R.
There’s nothing like eating pussy and not needing dental floss.