The US government spent millions of dollars on cat torture experiments, a compliment to American taxpayers.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) highlighted more than $1 trillion in government waste in this year's Festivus report, some of which our friends uncovered through the White Coat Waste Project. There seem to be some things related to cats.
According to the report, the Department of Defense (DOD) spent $10,851,439 on what it called an “Orwellian cat experiment.” The experiment was completed under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the University of Pittsburgh.
In the experiment, they cut the backs of male cats and exposed their spinal cords. The researchers then used electrodes to “deliver an electric shock while the incision was still open to induce an erection in the cat.”
Things got worse as the researchers continued to torture the cats, administering electric shocks for up to 10 minutes at a time and severing their spinal cords.
But fear doesn't end there. These cats were then given more electric shocks, sometimes for up to 10 minutes at a time, before their spinal cords were severed and their lower bodies paralyzed. And just to be sure, the shock lasted another 10 minutes. All this is done in the name of “science”.
In another shocking DARPA-funded experiment, researchers “attached electrodes to cats' spinal cords, inserted condom balloons into their colons, and inserted marbles into their rectums.”
“The purpose? To shock these poor animals with electricity and make them defecate out of the marbles,” the report said. One cat was shocked for 11 minutes.
Your hard-earned money, nearly $11 million of it, was spent on an experiment more at home in a dystopian novel than in the real world. This means that if government spending is left unchecked,
An area that overturns common sense.
The report does not fail to highlight cruel experiments at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), officially led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which spent $2.24 million on the experiments. It won't be completed.
NIAID and the Department of Agriculture donated $2.24 million to Cornell University to “research whether felines can contract and transmit COVID-19.” In this experiment, they also took healthy cats, injected them with a disease, watched them suffer, and ultimately killed them.
Some people died within two days of infection. Because it was a “control” group, some people did not get infected with COVID-19, but they still died. During the experiment, cats were completely isolated in cages.
The waste report highlights one more thing. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $1,513,299 on research that involved training female kittens into submission and torturing them by strapping them to rotating and tilting hydraulic tables. The purpose was to induce motion sickness. A bright light was shone into their eyes and they were given injections of copper sulfate to induce vomiting.
“According to the NIH, the purpose of these experiments is to study how different species, such as cats and monkeys, respond to motion sickness,” the report states, adding that the American public should not accept this reasoning. He argued that he would definitely reject this as a legitimate reason for torture.
Read the full waste report here.
