Which is the most immoral? Experimenting on animals or the SPCA approving it? According to John Hepburn, UBC’s vice president of research, UBC subjected dogs to its research as recently as 1990. How long has the BCSPCA been part of this cruelty, cruelty so horrific that BCSPCA Chief Animal Protection Officer, Shawn Eccles, the current SPCA member of the committee that approves of the methods used on the animals, said he agonizes over his conflicting roles and his knowledge that decisions by the committee can result in animals suffering.

"I struggle with this every day, but if I didn't do it, who would?", he said in an interview in the Vancouver Sun. "Maybe I will serve my penance in hell."

Mr Eccles: None of the very experienced people I know of in animal welfare are hardened enough to killing and torture to do it. Did any of the dogs and cats ever come from the SPCA?