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Essay/Joel Freedman: Dr. Fauci’s egregious cruelty to ‘man’s best friend’
Joel Freedman
A recent national survey by the Pew Research Center revealed that most Americans oppose vivisection — the use of animals in research and experimentation that harms the animals — because such exploitation of animals subjects them to horrifying cruelty, and because a host of less costly modern alternatives such as advanced studies of human cells and tissues lead to more accurate and useful information for people.
Over the years, reliance on vivisection has actually been detrimental to human welfare. To cite just a few examples: Albert Sabin, one of the creators of the polio vaccine, admitted to a congressional committee that “work on prevention was delayed by an erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease, based on misleading experimental models in monkeys.” Manufacturers withdrew two of America’s most popular diet drugs after a major study confirmed that many healthy women had developed serious heart valve defects from using the drugs. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration official explained that “no one had initially thought to examine patients’ hearts, because animal studies had never revealed heart abnormalities.” And because animal experiments didn’t establish tobacco’s link to lung cancer, warning labels on cigarettes were delayed for many years.
The efforts of anti-vivisection societies — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, White Coat Waste Project, Last Chance for Animals, SHARK and other animal protection organizations — in their endeavors to abolish vivisection have found support from many scientists, physicians, nurses, veterinarians and others who regard vivisection the same way as the famed psychoanalyst C.G. Jung: “During my medical education I found vivisection horrible; barbarous and above all unnecessary.” Or as Linn Paulis, a polio victim, concluded, “I would not want to promote research on animals — fortunately, only my back is twisted, not my mind.”
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, an internationally recognized expert on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, doesn’t have a twisted back, but does have a twisted mind in regards to his continuing strong support for vivisection.
Among Fauci’s many projects involving the senseless torture of animals is his expenditure of $400,000 to the University of Georgia to infect 28 beagles with disease-causing parasites. The dogs were given an experimental treatment and then introduced to biting flies that carry a parasite known to be harmful to humans. The beagles were reportedly allowed to suffer for three months before they were euthanized so their blood could be collected.
Parasite experiments on beagles in Tunisia, Africa, were supported by a $375,800 grant from Fauci’s department at the National Institutes of Health, even though the NIH has no oversight in Tunisia. While laws protecting animals used in experiments in the U.S. are weak and laxly enforced, Tunisia has no laws protecting these animals. Thus, taxpayer funds were used to lock the heads of live beagles in mesh bags filled with hundreds of infected sand flies. An investigation by the White Coat Waste Project also reported that in a second part of the Fauci-funded experiments in Tunisia, experimenters locked beagles in cages alone in the desert for nine consecutive nights, using them as bait to attract infectious sand flies. Prior to using the parasite-infected flies in these experiments, the flies were starved so they would be hungry and would feed on the dogs, who were then eaten alive by the flies.
There is evidence that Fauci funded China’s dangerous coronavirus experiments on animals that may have initiated the COVID-19 pandemic.
In July, a coalition of House Republicans issued a letter demanding answers from the NIH regarding its funding of overseas animal experimentation. They should be joined by all Republicans and Democrats in both the House and Senate to stop such awful experiments in America, as well as abroad. Other federal agencies are also vivisection-oriented, including the Department of Veterans Affairs. Among other horror stories of VA vivisection, cats had holes drilled in their skulls and were suffocated — their oxygen cut off as part of an asphyxiation experiment.