JD Vance Makes Money Poisoning and Torturing Animals
Reports of JD Vance’s involvement in grisly cruel animal experiments are just now being reported in the media. Rolling Stone reports that the Columbus, Ohio-based company AmplifyBio, funded with $200 million from Vance’s VC firm, is responsible for the torture and death of numerous dogs and monkeys. Vance brags that he owns $100,000 worth of stock in this private company.
AmplifyBio’s mission, “advancing science for humankind,” does little to describe the terror and immense suffering going on behind its industrial park walls. The company contracts with pharmaceutical firms to test experimental drugs using macaque monkeys, beagle dogs, “mini-pigs,” ferrets, rabbits, and rodents.
AmplifyBio’s marketing material advertises their animal subjects as ‘platforms’ upon which their customer’s cocktail of drugs will be applied. Protocols of AmplifyBio’s experiments include drilling through the heads of 25 monkeys into which botulism was injected. Before death, these animals endured agonizing pain with no relief, as painkillers could have negatively impacted the results.
Forty-eight Beagles were orally dosed with Cyclocreatine twice a day to test for chronic toxicity. The dogs either died in their kennels or were euthanized before the experiments could be evaluated for NOAEL (no-observed-adverse-effect-level). These animals were intentionally poisoned to death so that JD Vance could get richer.
Care and concern are non-existent for the animals used in Vance’s money-making endeavors. Several “accidents” have been reported, ending in the unimaginable deaths of innocent animals.
A monkey died of asphyxiation after being trapped in a “squeeze machine” used to immobilize animals so that staff can do their deeds without the flailing of desperate, terrorized animals.
Several monkeys recovering from having batteries implanted into their bodies were placed too close to a heat blower, which resulted in second-degree burns to their genitals. These same monkeys were used in a botulism study from which they suffered “labored breathing, shallow respirations (and) coughing, gasping, prostrate posture, then death.”
Today, the use of animals in laboratory research is old-fashioned and outdated. Alternatives include in vitro, computer models, stem cells, and cell-based devices.
Studies show that those who empathize with animals have higher levels of empathy for humans. Maybe we don’t want a man in the role of Vice President who capitalizes on the brutality suffered by animals used in his house-of-horrors laboratories at AmplifyBio.