«Breaking News» Bipartisan lawmakers continue to condemn USDA kitten killing experiments

The United States Department of Agriculture has been condemned once again by bipartisan lawmakers, months after it was revealed the department uses taxpayer money to fund thousands of deadly kitten experiments.

Since 1982, the USDA has been operating a program that 'involves breeding hundreds of kittens, feeding them Toxoplasma-infected raw meat for two to three weeks and collecting their feces,' Republican Congressman of Michigan, Mike Bishop, wrote in a letter to United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. 

Then, the department harvests parasites and kills the kittens by discarding them through 'incineration,' Bishop said.

Representative Mike Bishop, Republican of Michigan, holds a kitten on Capitol Hill in June 2018 in Washington, DC at an event in support of the Kitten Act which aims to stop testing by the United States Department of Agriculture

Reps. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., left, Bishop, and Hannah Shaw, an animal advocate know as 'Kitten Lady,' pose during a event in Rayburn Building on bipartisan legislation to end the Department of Agriculture's scientific testing on kittens in June 2018

The testing, which takes place at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland, was exposed by taxpayer watchdog group, White Coat Waste Project in the spring.

As many as 100 kittens have been used for the deadly experiments each year and at least 3,000 have died as a result.

Bishop condemned the animal testing this week to Fox News and said Congress is working to put a stop to it.

'This is inhumane what they are doing... it is blatantly inhumane,' he said.

'The Senate is now starting to help and we'll continue to pressure the USDA as well as choke off their funding if this testing continues.'

The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland is shown, where the lab experiments take place

He added the issue is deeper than just wasteful government spending.

'I first started out looking into wasteful government spending...  but when I found out about this, it became even bigger and more important.'

The Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act, or Kitten Act, was introduced in May by Democratic Congressman of California, Jimmy Panetta.

Bishop is listed online as one of the sponsors.

Republican Congressman of North Carolina, Walter Jones, who is also a sponsor, previously expressed his disapproval for the deadly kitten experiments.

Walter Jones, R-N.C., speaks with a reporters in Statuary Hall before votes on repealing and replacing Obamacare in May  2017. Jones is also a sponsor of the Kitten Act

'As a long-time cat owner, I was alarmed that the federal government has been secretively spending American’s tax dollars for archaic experiments on kittens, and then needlessly killing the healthy animals at the end of the project,' he said in a public statement.

'Abusing pets in government labs with taxpayers’ money has to stop and I'll continue to fight until it does.'

The USDA told Fox News: 'The cats are essential to the success of this critical research.

'The USDA does not seek adoptions of these cats because of the risk the cats could pose to their adoptive families. 

'Our goal is to reduce the spread of toxoplasmosis. Adopting laboratory cats could, unfortunately, undermine that goal.'

DailyMail.com reached out to the department for further comment on the matter.

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