Report: Giuliani's wife worked for company that killed dogs (to demonstrate product)

[philosophie_en_rose]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/04/report_giuliani.html

A few days after GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani announced that his wife, Judith, would be welcome to attend cabinet meetings at the White House, the New York Post reports this morning that the registered nurse worked as a traveling saleswoman for a company that killed dogs to demonstrate surgical staples to potential clients.

"It was a horribly cruel, outrageous program," Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral said, according to the Post.

According to the tabloid, a Giuliani spokesman said "only that Judi had not been involved in procuring dogs for sales demonstrations - but did not comment on whether she participated in demonstrations involving dogs."

In a 1988 story about a woman who was accused of plotting to blow up the offices of U.S. Surgical Corp, Time magazine reported the company "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."

Leon Hirsch, the company's president, told the magazine at the time that it was important for his employees to use live animals. "A dead dog doesn't bleed," he said at the time. "You need to have real blood-flow conditions, or you get a false sense of security. A stapler improperly used is a very dangerous device."

[shain from kane]

1. Vivisection.

[aquart]

2. So the staples didn't kill the dogs, the company just threw them away

like garbage.

Judy should have married catkiller Frist.

[philosophie_en_rose]

3. Staples don't kill dogs. People killed dogs.

A loose definition of the word "people."

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Geesh! That's awful.

People really need to practice on people.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Ah! But volunteers for that would want huge sums of money. Dogs are so much cheaper

:cry:

[kskiska]

6. There was a US Surgical plant in my hometown in Connecticut

It was picketed constantly for years. They had a hard time finding employees.