Giving beagle puppies 3 hr heart attacks and then killing them gives science a bad name.

If you’re going to do animal research you should be prepared to openly explain why it’s necessary.

That’s a terrible way to do it because you and me and 99.999% of the population are not qualified to make the decision about that and understand the very difficult but ethical rationale behind it.

and cows and pigs and chickens

This completely fails to address the actual gaps in scientific animal care legislation, in this case lack of oversight to make sure they actually adhered to the CCAC guidelines and a major lack of transparency. This legislation just sets back science that has good reason to use dogs as model organisms while letting abuse of other animals continue (especially non-government-funded work which has no requirement to follow CCAC rules!)

What we need is auditing and enforcement of our already comprehensive ethical restrictions on scientific research across fields. He’s using this one instance of gross negligence and misconduct to attack science in general, rather than do the proper job of enforcing the regulatory apparatus. Why is he doing this? Attention and optics to distract from his massive failures and bad ideas and investments, and also his side dealing which is getting harder and harder to ignore.

Testing should be limited to the researchers and owners trying to make money out of their questionable concoctions.

Wait I had no idea this was even allowed to begin with

That led to an article published earlier this month that found the dogs — mostly puppies — were used for tests and killed before their internal organs were removed for further examination.

What the fuck?

Pretty standard practice for animal research. Mainly mice and rats, but some types of research are better modeled by different animals.

What makes dogs and cats special?

In regard to some avenues of research that’s too bad. Cats are a point of study for weight gain and loss since they appear to have issues similar to us. Some cats gain and hold weight faster than their mates with similar amounts of food. Some cats compulsively overeat while their mates do not. And so on.

as he called the practice “cruel.”

Cool. Then we can agree that fishing, animal-based agriculture, hunting, fur farms, and puppy mills should be banned, too? Right, Doug?

Ontario has both a spring and fall bear hunt.

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Now do rabbits, mice, bats, primates and everything with a brain actually.

Most people only view cats and dogs of having any value worth protecting, which is terrible.

Oh, by the way, Doug’s government also wants to make it illegal for people to know about the cruelty on factory farms.

Willing human beings are a better choice than unwilling animals. It’s not just speciesism since I don’t think speciesism is “bad” in the sense that it is inevitable, but rather that it is questionable how much results replicate across species.

It’s because Ontario has among the poorest involvement in biomedical research in Canada despite having 10 universities.

and Doug Ford brought back penned hunting last year.