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If the SPCA knows of even one UBC animal being deprived of food or water it should seize it and have charges laid.... shouldn't it?

"...injection, blood sampling/testing, blood removal (large volume), gavaging, physical restraint, infection induction, whole‑body radiation, physical euthanasia, food deprivation, water deprivation, special diet, altered environmental exposure, physical restraint (duration).

Are animals at UBC deprived of food and water at any time? Here's what the BC Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, which the SPCA is empowered by the government of BC to enforce, says:

(2) For the purposes of this Act, an animal is in distress if it is

(a) deprived of adequate food, water, shelter, ventilation, space, care or veterinary treatment,

(b) injured, sick, in pain or suffering, or

(c) abused or neglected.

The SPCA has seized for a lack of food and water, possibly hundreds of times. In court the SPCA gives its opinion of what is and is not "adequate". So if there are animals at UBC being deprived of food and water, perhaps, according to the SPCA's expert opinion, they are getting "adequate" food and water. Or perhaps they are dying of a lack of food and water in the name of some research. UBC won't say in detail what it is doing to animals. Nor has the SPCA. They both should be specifically asked that question.

If the SPCA knows of even one UBC animal being deprived of food or water it should seize it and have charges laid.... shouldn't it?

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Is this some of the animal torture going on at UBC? *LINK*
Gavaging? Stereotaxic surgery? Cannulation
Vancouver Sun: UBC must come clean about animal research *LINK*
If the SPCA knows of even one UBC animal being deprived of food or water it should seize it and have charges laid.... shouldn't it?

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