Cruelty pretending to be heroics at UW-Madison

Why are Chancellor Blank and vet school Dean Markell grinning? Does he imagine extra space for more hideous experiments on dogs and other animals like the ones he has conducted? [For example: rabbits, rats, and dogs]. Does she think her bosses, the Board of Regents, will extend her contract? Is she completely in the dark about the terrible things done to animals at the vet school? We need more sifting and winnowing.

There is something particularly distasteful, hideous in fact, about those who hurt and kill animals and at the same time portray themselves as “heroes” for animals. This would be like Joseph Mengele declaring himself a hero for children if something he discovered by experimenting on children turned out to be in some way beneficial to other children. A better example might be J. Marion Sims.

Sims, the “father of genecology” conducted experiments on enslaved Black women (and children) that led to improvements in gynecological care for women. His work is a textbook example of the ends not being justified by the means. He could and should have found unenslaved women willing to take part in his experiments.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is expanding its vet school. See the hype here and here.

Not mentioned anywhere in the propaganda are the terrible things done to animals at the vet school. I’ve pointed to a tiny fraction of them here.

People get rich by hurting the most vulnerable among us and they declare themselves heroes. No one but a tiny few seem to notice the dark irony. Local media jumps on-board. On matters concerning the terrible things done to animals there is next to no investigative journalism.

We live in a very sick world.