NY Post: Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors, The Post has learned.
"It was a horribly cruel, outrageous program," Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral said about the demonstrations of medical staplers on dogs conducted by U.S. Surgical Corp. employees during Giuliani's tenure there in the late 1970s.
Feral said U.S. Surgical's demonstrations on hundreds of dogs each year through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were done to boost sales, not for medical re search or testing.
The dogs were "either put to death following the sales demonstrations because they can't re cover from them, or they die during them," Feral said.....
....(Judi) Giuliani spent four years at U.S. Surgical.
The company, now part of Tyco Healthcare, has long acknowledged its salespeople routinely demonstrated staples on anesthetized dogs as part of sales pitches to doctors.
Then-CEO Leon Hirsch defended the practice in the 1980s, saying there was no other way to properly show how the staplers worked.
"A dead dog doesn't bleed," Hirsch said in a 1988 issue of Time magazine. "You need to have real blood-flow conditions, or you get a false sense of security."
Doggie killer?????????????????? In case you need reminding, here are some pictures of dogs---- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Here is that Time magazine article about U.S. Surgical and their puppy killing procedures. Here is an excerpt from the 1988 Time article:
....Since 1981, U.S. Surgical has been the target of heckling demonstrators, some carrying signs reading STAPLE HIRSCH and KILL HIRSCH. Animal-rights activists have also launched at least two unsuccessful legal efforts to revoke the company's license to use live animals. According to Hirsch, U.S. Surgical uses hundreds of dogs a year to train doctors and the company's own salesmen with the high-speed surgical staplers it manufactures. The trainees practice by stapling multiple surgical incisions on anesthetized dogs, after which the animals are destroyed....
>>>Sen. McCain wants us to believe that his recent trip to a Baghdad open market was like a walk in the park. Why did he need a bulletproof vest, 100 American troops (no Iraqi soldiers), and 3 circling helicopters?
Is McCain's campaign out of touch and low on funds? Check out this article from Politico.
In my opinion, McCain is about as exciting and inspiring a gray linoleum.
