Feeder Rodent Businesses Closing?

[satomi325]

Has anyone ever bought frozen jumbos and thawed them out to find out that they had their throats slit? I won't say all, because I can't verify it, but a lot of those rats are from labs. They experiment on them, then they give the carcasses away if you know who to talk to. These rats are very often sold as feeders at reptile shows. Its not cool in my book, but I don't have to live with the guilt of doing it because I don't do it.

May I ask where these rats came from? I'd like to find out which labs they came from.
I work in a research lab and it is illegal to resell laboratory rats as feeders. All research subjects must be terminated humanely (Co2, cervical dislocation, or anesthesia overdose) at the end of a study, then processed as bio hazard waste (usually burned). That is seriously a violation of public safety and should be reported.