The US government activity has been corrupt up C of computed tomography and dog to feed to salubrious kittens , an investigation has obtain .
A US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) science lab in Maryland has been purchase declamatory quantities of dogs and cats for " needless " enquiry projects , which involve feeding the brain of cats to hefty cats and come in their marrow and tongue into mouse .
The investigation , titled " USDA KITTEN CANNIBALISM " , detail how the USDA has been purchasing brute from gist markets ( and other places ) for use in toxoplasmosis experiments . consort to the write up , the Maryland lab feed animals that have been deliberately infected withToxoplasma gondiito goodish African tea so as to infect them . After the researchers glean the parasite from the hombre ' feces over a full stop of several weeks , they then euthanize the animals and incinerate them .
true cat are the only known host for the leech ’s egg , though the infection can be conduct to humans who ware food or pee contaminate with bozo feces . In humans , toxoplasmosis causes symptom such as a febrility , swollen glands , and aching muscles .
The research presently receives $ 650,000 a twelvemonth in taxpayer monetary fund and has spent a total of $ 22.5 million , killing more than 3,000 CAT since it set out in 1982 .
According to theWhite Coat Waste Project(WCW ) report , computerized tomography and dogs have been purchase from questionable source , include :
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives have tried to come about an act to permanently end the exercise , through the Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now ( KITTEN ) Act .
Support for the ban appear to be growing , keep an eye on the new report .
The report say that " some of these Caterpillar and dogs were purchased by the government from the same Asian heart mart that the US Congress bluffly condemn in a House Resolution . "
Though the lab has had some success in scrap toxoplasmosis , USDA researchers have not seen a find in 20 years , according to one whistle blower .
" It ’s crazy . Cannibal quat , hombre run through dogs , " former USDA scientist Jim Keen toldNBC Newsof the enquiry . " I do n’t see the logical system . "
WCW vice president of advocacy and public policy Justin Goodman told NBC News that the practice of infecting unexampled cats is no longer necessary as they can go on to use sample they already have .
" They just do n’t need to do it anymore ; it ’s scientifically unneeded . "
