Eschaton

Ethel the Blog on Evil Doers and Doers of Evil Who Do Evil to Doggies.

Finishing in second place to no person on this planet in dog appreciation, I of course find the lower picture in the previous item a bit upsetting. Whether the dog was killed by the Evil of the Century of the Week or for propaganda purposes by the CIA or one of their bedfellows, I don't like to see, hear or even think of such things. But if you weep over the fate of a few dogs, consider the numbers in the following excerpt
from an organization that is routinely excoriated by the usual suspects for even considering that the routine torture and murder of animals for any research purpose might be a bad thing:


The U.S. military inflicts the pains of war on hundreds of thousands of animals each year in experiments. The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Veterans Administration (VA) together are the federal government's second largest user of animals (after the National Institutes of Health). They account for nearly half the estimated minimum of 1.6 million dogs, cats, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, primates, rats, mice, and "wild animals" used, as reported to Congress in 1983, the last year for which government figures are available.(1) Because these figures don't include experiments that were contracted out to non-governmental laboratories, or the many sheep, goats, and pigs often shot in wound experiments, the actual total of animal victims is probably much higher.