{"id":4007,"date":"2019-07-26T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/picture-purrfect-cats-saved-from-govt-kitten-slaughterhouse-visit-capitol\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:32","slug":"picture-purrfect-cats-saved-from-govt-kitten-slaughterhouse-visit-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/picture-purrfect-cats-saved-from-govt-kitten-slaughterhouse-visit-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagen perfecta: gatos salvados del 'matadero de gatitos' del gobierno visitan el Capitolio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dos legisladores son el maullido del gato en el Capitolio.<\/p>\n

El senador Jeff Merkley, dem\u00f3crata por Ore, y el representante Brian Mast, republicano por Florida, quienes desempe\u00f1aron un papel decisivo para poner fin al llamado "matadero de gatitos" del Departamento de Agricultura, recibieron la visita el jueves de dos gatos que se salvaron cuando El programa gubernamental fue cerrado a principios de este a\u00f1o.<\/p>\n

"Me alegro mucho de que hayas sido liberado", dijo Merkley en su oficina del Senado mientras sosten\u00eda a la sobreviviente Delilah, quien fue llevada al Capitolio junto con otro gato llamado Petite por la organizaci\u00f3n White Coat Waste Project.<\/p>\n

El grupo es una organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro que lucha contra el despilfarro del gobierno en pruebas con animales, y emiti\u00f3 un informe a principios de este a\u00f1o que muestra que el laboratorio del Departamento de Agricultura de EE.UU. en Maryland hab\u00eda estado realizando espantoso y fatal<\/a> pruebas en gatos.<\/p>\n

Merkley le dijo a NBC News que no estaba al tanto de las medidas del USDA. programa de d\u00e9cadas de antig\u00fcedad<\/a> hasta que los defensores le presentaron la informaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuando me enter\u00e9 de la matanza absolutamente innecesaria de estos animales, pens\u00e9 que eso estaba mal, no tratamos a los animales de esa manera, as\u00ed que apliquemos un poco de presi\u00f3n y tratemos de cambiarlo. Y por eso me siento como un socio en el \u00faltimo momento despu\u00e9s de que hayan hecho todo el trabajo real\u201d, dijo.<\/p>\n

El laboratorio de Servicios de Investigaci\u00f3n Agr\u00edcola del USDA, con sede en Beltsville, Maryland, hab\u00eda estado infectando gatos con toxoplasmosis y luego sacrific\u00e1ndolos desde 1982 como parte de su esfuerzo para combatir esta enfermedad transmitida por los alimentos.<\/p>\n

"Pero estos eran gatitos adoptables sanos y saludables", dijo el presidente de la WCW, Anthony Bellotti. "La toxoplasmosis es algo que se puede tratar".<\/p>\n

Y algunas de las pruebas fueron francamente extra\u00f1as, incluida la alimentaci\u00f3n gatos carne de gato contaminada<\/a>, encontr\u00f3 la WCW.<\/p>\n

Durante el transcurso del programa, que cost\u00f3 $22 millones, el USDA mat\u00f3 a 3.000 gatos. Delilah naci\u00f3 en las instalaciones en 2013 y Petite fue comprada a un criador en 2015, la WCW. Ambos se utilizaron para criar gatitos para experimentos.<\/p>\n

El representante Brian Mast, republicano por Florida, otro legislador que jug\u00f3 un papel en presionar al USDA para que detuviera el programa, se reuni\u00f3 con los dos gatos en la oficina de su C\u00e1mara.<\/p>\n

Mast y Merkley hab\u00edan estado defendiendo una legislaci\u00f3n bipartidista llamada ley Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now (o KITTEN) cuando el USDA anunci\u00f3 que terminando el programa<\/a> en abril.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo es frecuente que necesariamente puedas tenerlo en tu oficina y ver los resultados de parte del trabajo que haces\u201d, dijo Mast sobre los gatos. "Para m\u00ed, es bueno que los traigas aqu\u00ed y ver los resultados de un poco del trabajo que hicimos all\u00ed".<\/p>\n

Catorce gatos que hab\u00edan permanecido en las instalaciones fueron adoptados, y Delilah y Petite actualmente est\u00e1n siendo acogidos y se espera que sean adoptados pronto, dijo la WCW.<\/p>\n

\u201cYa sea que seas un amante de los animales o un amante de la libertad, no te gusta el factor de desperdicio gubernamental en todo este asunto, esto era algo que todos pod\u00edan apoyar. No es una cuesti\u00f3n dem\u00f3crata o republicana\u201d, dijo Bellotti.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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