Animals in Labs Article from All-Creatures.org

The U.S. Navy is in the ANIMAL TESTING business

From WCW White Coat Waste Project
November 2023

Sea lions and Dolphins are captured from their wild habitat. Endoscopes rammed into their blowhole. Deliberately trapped in nets just to study how they react. It's called the Marine Mammal Program. And its victims are some of the most intelligent, sentient animals on the planet.

What if I told you the war on lab animals isn’t just happening in laboratories anymore?

What if I told you the new battlefield isn’t on land… but at sea?

77 dolphins. 47 sea lions. $40 million in taxes.

We just uncovered a trail of abuse so severe…so HEART-BREAKING…that even I couldn’t have imagined our government was capable of such depravity.

I was wrong.

Captured from their wild habitat. Endoscopes rammed into their blowhole. Deliberately trapped in nets… just to study how they react.

It's called the Marine Mammal Program. And its victims are some of the most intelligent, sentient animals on the planet.

Here’s what we found across 2,200 published papers:

• Removed from Water. Then Experimented On: Being restrained on land is highly stressful for bottlenose dolphins.
• OBEY! Or No Dinner Tonight: Victims train for tasks in exchange for meals. If they disobey, they’re denied food and scared with loud noises.
• Testing In Extreme Cold: They’re thrown into frigid temperatures, just to see at what point their metabolic rate rises.
• Sleep Deprivation Experiments: Dolphins are forced to swim around their cramped enclosures with no real sleep. For over two weeks!
• Forced to Drink Saltwater: It’s pumped directly into their bodies. Dolphins don’t normally consume seawater. So, they get very ill.

Guess where the Navy gets its lab specimens from?

SeaWorld.

We’ve obtained hard evidence that the Navy acquired animals from the infamous amusement park disgraced by the Blackfish scandal.

This an actual federal contract proving SeaWorld breeds lab specimens for the Navy.

The Pentagon also went on a $48,000 shopping spree at SeaWorld for “male sea lions.” [Payout #N6600110P5361]

Here’s the real scandal:

The Navy doesn’t want to do this anymore. Congress is FORCING them to do it!

The Navy actually announced a plan to phase out the use of marine mammals for locating sea mines in favor of modern, high-tech underwater drones.

But the heavy hand of Congress just passed a 2023 defense bill prohibiting the Navy from retiring the Marine Mammal Program.

 

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