Beagle (deposit photo)
GOP State Rep. Joseph Aragona is leading a group of Michigan lawmakers who want the National Institutes of Health to stop funding medical experiments on beagles at Wayne State University.
The Michigan Advance reports:
Since 1991, the university has experimented on beagle dog breeds in which medical devices are implanted and they are forced to run on treadmills until they have heart attacks, the lawmakers said in a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. Every dog in this program eventually dies, the letter states.
“I agree that animal testing is needed in some circumstances, but I’ve repeatedly asked WSU for over a year for proof that this research program provides benefit to humans, and they haven’t given me any,” Aragona said, according to the Michigan Advance. “Taxpayers don’t want their money being used to kill Snoopy.”
