"The ACC [Animal Care Center] distributes some 100,000 creatures, both large and small, to dozens of UBC affiliated research projects."

Does the SPCA's duty to protect animals from cruelty and distress stop at UBC's gates? Or as with the Canadian government, is there a legal and moral duty not to send prisoners to other agencies where their treatment can't be observed? And make no mistake, the animals in research facilities are prisoners.

It's not known if the SPCA's participation in the Animal Care Committee has resulted in any animal's suffering being alleviated (aside from death releasing the animal from its suffering). Nor is it known if the SPCA oversees the animals that UBC distributes. But it is known that the SPCA has never had cruelty charges laid against UBC, even though the SPCA's representative on the committee has indicated that what he has seen for three years is hellish.

Yet the SPCA has had many charges laid against many people whose animals are being far better treated than the treatment of animals it approves of at UBC. It has seized happy, healthy animals and has sickened them and killed them.

Would UBC make any changes to its treatment of animals as long as the SPCA approves?