Wayne Hsiung

Thank you.

It's such an honor to be on the podcast.

I've had it with people abusing dogs.

And this is something I've seen since I was a kid.

I had an early experience in China seeing people killing dogs for meat.

Growing up in Chicago, you saw dogs chained up in the freezing cold and the police would never come to help.

And one of the biggest abusers of dogs is the vivisection or animal experimentation industry, which subjects tens of thousands of dogs to torture that's honestly just hard to even believe is happening.

The facility is called Bridgeland Farms, and it was started by, ironically, four veterinarians in the 1960s, partly because the US government, and particularly the US military, was performing a series of experiments on dogs, initially radiation experiments.

basically subject these poor beagles to lethal doses of radiation to see how their bodies deteriorated before they died, basically because we're afraid of nuclear war and didn't want to perform experiments on human beings, so we did it on dogs instead.

And then it's expanded from there to everything from pharmaceutical compounds to household products to things like pathogenic diseases like rabies.

And the facility since the 1960s has been implicated in just a huge number of controversies.

But just in the last 20 years, there have been accounts ranging from piles of dead dogs and burning pyres outside of the facility to employees saying that dogs are being thrown into freezer bags while they're still alive for disposal.

And so the facility for decades has been doing this sort of thing to at least hundreds, possibly thousands of dogs.

So we took 30 beagles out.

So they arrested 27 protesters and most disturbingly seized eight beagles from the rescuers and returned them to original farms.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, honestly, this relates to something you guys have talked a lot about in this podcast, just how our institutions are getting corrupted by money.

And this is true of Republicans for sure, but also Democrats.

Dane County is a Democratic county where the sheriff is a Democrat.