Ontario will ban research testing on dogs and cats in the province, Premier Doug Ford announced on Aug. 25.
“You aren’t going to use pets—cats or dogs—to experiment any longer. Simple as that. We just don’t do that. It’s cruel and it’s not acceptable,” Ford said during an unrelated funding announcement in London, Ont.
Ford’s pledge to ban the animal tests come in the wake of reports from two whistleblowers at the Lawson Research Institute (LRI) at St. Joseph’s Health Care in London, Ont., who raised concerns about puppies being killed as part of cardiac health research experiments….