The National Institutes of Health defended a grant awarded to a study experimenting on 2-month-old kittens after the agency promised to “phase out” dog and cat testing.
The study involves surgeons separating the ribs of cats and cutting near their hearts to place a band around their aorta. After the study is completed, the cats are euthanized.
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