DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ghostbusters actor and Wayne State University graduate Ernie Hudson today called on his alma mater to end its controversial dog experiments after seeing “disturbing” images from the breeding facility that supplies animals to the school. In a letter to Wayne State President Kimberly Andrews Espy, Hudson wrote he was “shocked” to learn of the “painful, deadly heart failure experiments” conducted on dogs at the university but realized “the cruelty goes even deeper” after seeing the new images. He described long rows of elevated cages holding beagles, feces piled underneath. He also references “a dead dog shoved into a metal bin, his head twisted sideways, his brown coat soaked with what appears to be mud or feces.”

“These dead-end dog experiments haven’t helped a single patient”

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An employee of Marshall BioResources, a factory farm in western New York where more than 18,000 adult dogs and puppies are caged, provided the photos and videos to the U.K.-based group The Camp Beagle, which shared them with the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Public records obtained by the Physicians Committee from Wayne State show the university purchased at least 86 dogs from Marshall between 2014 and March 2023. The dog experiments began in 1991 and involve performing multiple invasive surgeries, implanting devices in the animals’ arteries and hearts, and running the dogs on treadmills until their bodies give out or they die—often due...

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