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-------------譯者：Oriri-審核者：龍騰翻譯總管------------ Hundreds of dead dogs and cats from Asia were purchased by the U.S. government then fed to healthy lab cats in a series of disturbing experiments, according to a breaking watchdog report. 據(jù)監(jiān)察機(jī)構(gòu)的最新報(bào)告，在一系列令人不安的實(shí)驗(yàn)中，美國(guó)政府從亞洲買了幾百條死貓死狗，喂給實(shí)驗(yàn)室里的健康貓咪。 The experiments with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's lab in Maryland are the center of a shocking report by the White Coat Waste Project, a nonprofit against wasteful spending on animal testing, released on Tuesday. 據(jù)周四的報(bào)道，這項(xiàng)由美國(guó)農(nóng)業(yè)部主導(dǎo)，在馬里蘭州進(jìn)行的實(shí)驗(yàn)是一項(xiàng)名為“白大衣廢料項(xiàng)目（White Coat Waste Project）”的核心。這一反對(duì)在動(dòng)物實(shí)驗(yàn)上浪費(fèi)資源的非盈利組織同樣令人震驚。 The experiments included feeding dog remains to cats and injecting cat remains into mice and took place at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service's Animal Parasitic Disease Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland. 在馬里蘭州貝茨維爾的美國(guó)農(nóng)業(yè)部農(nóng)業(yè)研究局動(dòng)物寄生蟲病實(shí)驗(yàn)室開展的這項(xiàng)實(shí)驗(yàn)內(nèi)容包括：將狗的尸體喂給貓，或?qū)⒇埵w的殘?jiān)⑷氲嚼鲜篌w內(nèi)等。 The agency claimed that the tests - conducted from 2003 through 2015 - were aimed at studying different forms of a parasite called toxoplasmosis, one of the leading causes food borne illness-related death in the U.S. 該機(jī)構(gòu)稱，這項(xiàng)實(shí)驗(yàn)從2003年持續(xù)到2015年，目的在于研究一種名為弓形蟲的寄生蟲的不同形態(tài)。在美國(guó)，弓形蟲是導(dǎo)致食源性疾病相關(guān)死亡的主要原因之一。  In the tests animals including 400 dogs from Colombia, Brazil and Vietnam and over 100 cats from China and Ethiopia that were euthanized and used as lab food. 實(shí)驗(yàn)的動(dòng)物包括400只來自哥倫比亞、巴西和越南的狗和100只來自中國(guó)和埃塞俄比亞的貓。它們將被安樂死，并用于實(shí)驗(yàn)中作為食物。  -------------譯者：yanina-審核者：龍騰翻譯總管------------ 'The details of these kitten experiments keep getting worse and they need to end now,' Republican Rep. Brian Mast said. He's the lead republican co-sponsor of legislation seeking to stop lab cat killings. “這些小貓實(shí)驗(yàn)的細(xì)節(jié)越來越糟糕，必須立即被停止，”共和黨眾議員布萊恩·馬斯特（Brian Mast）如是說。他是共和黨尋求立法阻止殺害實(shí)驗(yàn)用貓的共同提案人。  'The fact that the USDA has been rounding up pets and other innocent dogs and cats in foreign countries —including at Chinese meat markets condemned by Congress — killing them and feeding them to lab cats back here in the States is simply disgusting and unjustifiable,' he added. 他補(bǔ)充道：“美國(guó)農(nóng)業(yè)部一直在其他國(guó)家（包括被國(guó)會(huì)譴責(zé)的中國(guó)肉類批發(fā)市場(chǎng)）收集圍捕寵物和其他無辜的貓狗，殺害它們并喂食給美國(guó)實(shí)驗(yàn)室里的貓，這一事實(shí)簡(jiǎn)直令人作嘔且不合理?！?br/>  The agency has been breeding kittens in the lab since 1982 and feeding them raw meat to infect them with T. Gondii. Then scientists harvest the parasites from their stool and euthanize and incinerate the cats. 該機(jī)構(gòu)自1982年以來一直在實(shí)驗(yàn)室繁殖小貓，并喂它們生肉以感染弓形蟲。隨后，科學(xué)家們從貓糞中采集寄生蟲，并對(duì)實(shí)驗(yàn)貓進(jìn)行安樂死并火焚。 Cats are used at the lab because they're the only host animal that produces parasite eggs. 實(shí)驗(yàn)室用貓做實(shí)驗(yàn)是因?yàn)樗鼈兪俏ㄒ灰环N能產(chǎn)生寄生蟲卵的宿主動(dòng)物。 |
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