‘Do we really need this?’

Re: Puppies secretly tested and killed at Ontario hospital for human heart research — Jenna Olsen and Robert Cribb, Investigative Journalism Bureau, Aug. 7

The editor’s warning was correct regarding the article about researchers at St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ont., inducing heart attacks up to three hours long in puppies and young dogs before killing them and removing their hearts. The piece was distressing.

Just one question: Do we really need this kind of medical information so badly that we have to torture animals to see how they are affected? Shame!

While I was pleased to see you expose the torment of dogs at London’s St. Joseph’s Hospital, your headline was off-the-mark: the dogs were not “tested” — they were experimented upon. This subtle yet impo

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