There has been some sickening allegations about animals who endured megligence, and painful, gruesome deaths at the Bristol-Myers Squibb (pharaceutical giant). The person who has revealed these reports said that both a rat and monkey had been scalded to death when the cages in which they were each housed were carelessly put into the company's mechanical high-temperature, high-pressure cage weasher - with the animals STILL INSIDE! In another incident, it was reported that many monkeys were tethered to their cage doors to be weighed and then left unattended. When the workers finally returned, they found one of the monkeys strangled to death.
In conjunction with these allegations of neglect, from 2008 to 2010, Bristol-Myers Squibb has tormented more than 20,000 animals in it's laboratories, including more that 2,600 dogs and 3,400 rrimates who were imprisoned in cages, intentionally poisoned to dath, and subjecte dto other painful and stressful procedures.
What is amazing is that the more than 20,000 animals that were tortured DOES NOT include the the thousands of mice, rats, and other animals who aren't covered under teh Animal Welfare Act which I will never understand. They do not include animals used in experiments contracted out by Bristo-Myers Squibb to others laboratories as the cotorius Covance.
A shareholder resolution has been submitted to Bristol-Myers Squibb this year to urge them to be more transparent and to minimize it's use of animals by implementing modern, non-animal testing mehtods - recommended by the National Academy of Sciences.
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