Malganis
Knight of the Bleach
Join date : 2009-06-10
 | | Subject: Monkey boiled alive in giant washing machine Mon May 10, 2010 2:55 pm | |
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- A monkey, slotted to be used in a drug-product research experiment, was instead boiled alive inside an Everett laboratory, a KIRO Team 7 Investigation found.
Okay, those are two pretty shitty fates, but... eh, boiling alive is worse, I guess. - Quote :
- Our hidden camera footage, taken inside SNBL headquarters, shows just how obvious it is to see and hear these animals jumping around in their enclosures.
Despite that, KIRO Team 7 Investigators confirmed someone placed a wire kennel, with a healthy female macaque monkey still inside, into a giant rack-washer.
The 180-degree water, caustic foam and detergent killed the primate at some point during the 20-minute cycle.
Joanie McCully is a former Animal Care Supervisor for the SNBL.
"I was sick to my stomach. It broke my heart because that is so avoidable and unnecessary, and I couldn't believe it. I wanted to vomit right there. I had other people calling me and saying, 'Did you hear?' They were in tears. It was just horrible, especially when they described her, foam coming out of her mouth and her gripping the bars of the cage. They had to peel her off of that cage. Yuck.”
McCully is upset by what she calls a "long-standing disregard" for animal care at the Everett facility. As an example, she points to an e-mail from a veterinarian working at SNBL entitled "uh oh". Oops we accidentally the monkey, the whole thing. Wow, given this shoddy level of care, I wonder how accurate their tests are, huh?  | |
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