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The VA Doesn't Have Money To Heal Vets Because It Is Torturing Animals
by ARC Friday, Oct. 28, 2005 at 4:56 PM
porkworms@yahoo.com

animal torture by the Veterans Administration

Animal Torture By the Veterans' Administration

from a paper published by United Action For Animals
...Eleanor Seiling.. deceased director


While our nation's veterans are denied medical care and
forced to become poor charity patients, the VA continues to
subsidize experiments in which baboons are forced to
consume alcohol, cats sleep-deprived and then electroshocked,
nervous dogs terrorized into catatonic immobility to observe
'fear of humans', animals of many species are forced to inhale cigarette smoke, animals are forced to fight other animals,
rats are dosed with alcohol and presented with live mice
to observe the effect of drunkenness on mouse killing, rats are immobilized in refrigerators to produce stress ulcers, rabbits are subjected to electroshock in their eyes... in old outdated Pavlovian
experiments which have been repeated over 250 times.

*sleep deprivation in cats.. VA Medical Center Sepulveda Ca 1982


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Irradiating Dogs To Death, Sewing Rats Together

IRRADIATING DOGS TO DEATH

At the Univ of Iowa and VA Medical Center, dogs were
irradiated to death. At lower doses, dogs had vomiting, diarrhead and had to be fed through duodenal
catheters. 1984

SEWING RATS TOGETHER
Parabiosis is sewing animals together. 20 captive rats
were used. Hypertension was artificially produced in 10 rats by
tying a thread around the portal vein.

1985 VA West Haven, Connecticut


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CREATION OF BRAIN SEIZURES

VA in Sepulveda Ca produces seizures in cats through
kindling 1984

kind·ling: the electrophysiological changes that occur in the brain as a result of repeated intermittent exposure to a subthreshold electrical or chemical stimulus (as one causing seizures) so that there develops a usually permanent decrease in the threshold of excitability


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SPINE SEVERING


The Medical College of Georgia and VA in Augusta Ga have
severed the spines of rats. This research was paid for by
the Medical Research Svc of the VA. (1985)


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TREADMILL DEATHS


1982 Rats with pituitary glands removed were forced to run uphill on a motorized treadmill 140 minutes a day.. the speed and slope
of the treadmill were gradually increased. 4 rats died of
forced exertion. Survivors were killed.

Funded by NIH Exercise Stress Program Iowa City, Iowa VA


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RATS FOOD DEPRIVED AND RUN TO DEATH


At the Perry Point, Virginia VA in the Pavlovian Research Lab
41 rats were food deprived and run to death. Sick animals
were rendered unconscious by a sharp blow to the head and a piece of the liver was removed. All survivors were then
bled to death.

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