Many people assume that animal experimenters are law-abiding citizens who deserve “protection” from animal rights “extremists.” The reality is that animal experimenters conceal themselves and their work in part because what they do is NOT lawful. Case in point:

“Government inspection reports cited three research laboratories for a host of animal welfare violations, ranging from problems with surgeries that forced researchers to euthanize a dog and a primate to leaving a live hamster in a walk-in freezer.” (source: AP)

Here are the violations, emphasis added:

The USDA reports show that:
_At Charles River Laboratories’ Shrewsbury, Mass., facility, two primates undergoing surgical procedures were handled improperly. One subsequently had to be euthanized. A dog also had to be euthanized after a gauze square was left in its abdominal cavity during a previous surgery and caused an obstruction. [...]

_At BioReliance Corp., in Rockville, Md., a lab assistant reported a hamster running loose inside the walk-in refrigerator, and a live hamster was found in a euthanasia bag inside the walk-in freezer. Failure to follow established euthanasia procedures “caused undue pain and distress for 2 hamsters and possibly 18 other hamsters.” [...]

_At Tufts University’s School of Veterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Mass., a 2006 USDA inspection report faulted the school for withholding anesthesia from piglets and lambs during procedures without adequate scientific justification for doing so. The report does not identify the procedures. School spokesman Tom Keppeler said it was castration.

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