{"id":4273,"date":"2019-04-02T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-panetta-applaud-end-of-taxpayer-funded-kitten-slaughter-2019\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:52","slug":"merkley-panetta-applaud-end-of-taxpayer-funded-kitten-slaughter-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-panetta-applaud-end-of-taxpayer-funded-kitten-slaughter-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley y Panetta aplauden el fin de la masacre de gatitos financiada por los contribuyentes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 El senador de Oreg\u00f3n Jeff Merkley y el congresista Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), patrocinadores principales de la campa\u00f1a bipartidista <i>Ley GATITO<\/i>, aplaudi\u00f3 hoy un anuncio del Departamento de Agricultura de EE. UU. (USDA) de que la agencia pondr\u00eda fin a sus experimentos con gatitos financiados por los contribuyentes. Previamente, la agencia hab\u00eda infectado gatitos con un par\u00e1sito para realizar investigaciones sobre la toxoplasmosis, luego los sacrific\u00f3 y se deshizo de los gatitos una vez que se agot\u00f3 el uso de animales para la investigaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLa decisi\u00f3n del USDA de sacrificar gatitos despu\u00e9s de que se usaron en investigaciones fue una pr\u00e1ctica arcaica y un trato horrible, y ya es hora de ponerle fin\u201d, dijo el Senador Merkley. \u201cEl USDA tom\u00f3 la decisi\u00f3n correcta hoy y los aplaudo por su voluntad de cambiar de rumbo. Es un buen d\u00eda para nuestros amigos de cuatro patas en todo Estados Unidos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFelicito al USDA por su decisi\u00f3n de poner fin a este tipo de pruebas en gatitos. Escucharon a la gente y respondieron adecuadamente a nuestras preocupaciones\u201d, dijo el congresista Panetta. \u201cAs\u00ed deben y deben funcionar nuestras instituciones, nuestro gobierno y nuestra democracia. Agradezco al USDA, al White Coat Waste Project, al exrepresentante Mike Bishop, a los copatrocinadores de mi proyecto de ley y al senador Merkley por su trabajo en nuestra legislaci\u00f3n y trabajar para hacer lo correcto\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Desde 1970, el USDA ha gastado $650,000 cada a\u00f1o para infectar y luego matar gatitos en su Laboratorio de Enfermedades Parasitarias de Animales en Beltsville, MD. El laboratorio ha criado hasta 100 gatitos por a\u00f1o. Una vez que cumplieron 2 meses, los gatitos fueron alimentados con carne cruda infectada con par\u00e1sitos. Luego se recogieron sus heces y se recolectaron los huevos par\u00e1sitos para usarlos en otros experimentos. Una vez que se recolectaron los huevos, los gatitos de 3 meses fueron sacrificados e incinerados.<\/p>\n<p>El <i>Ley KITTEN (Gatitos en pruebas traum\u00e1ticas termina ahora)<\/i> habr\u00eda requerido que el Secretario de Agricultura terminara con el uso de gatitos y gatos en cualquier experimento del USDA que da\u00f1e innecesariamente a los animales. Merkley tambi\u00e9n asegur\u00f3 un texto en el proyecto de ley agr\u00edcola del Comit\u00e9 de Asignaciones del Senado que insta al USDA a considerar m\u00e9todos de prueba alternativos para infectar y matar gatitos.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &mdash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley and Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), lead sponsors of the bipartisan KITTEN Act, today applauded an announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that the agency would end its taxpayer-funded experiments on kittens. 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