In what can only be described as an inexcusable – and recurring – pattern, yet another government agency has been performing painful and, largely unnecessary, experiments on animals.
It emerged in a January 30th report by the White Coat Waste Project that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) disbursed nearly $2.3 million of taxpayer funds on an experiment involving injecting male beagle puppies “again and again and again for months” with cocaine and other drugs in order to make conclusions about overdose conditions. To add insult to injury, once their utility was exhausted, the dogs were sent back to the facility from which NIH purchased the dogs, “for future use” or euthanized.
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