Did you know that Ed Boks supports having Western University Veterinary School cherry pick animals at the city shelters to kill and then dissect? Can you imagine that? Well, it's exactly correct, unbelievable as it is!

The purpose of an animal shelter is to provide a safe haven for lost and homeless animals until they are located by their owners or adopted into loving homes. (Can you imagine the horror of a distraught owner's searching for a beloved lost pet only to discover that his or her companion has been prematurely killed and is lying on a slab awaiting dissection?) A shelter is not supposed to be a supply house for dissection classes, especially when most schools - elementary, secondary, collegiate and even medical schools - are phasing out the anachronistic practice in favor of the much scientifically superior and more innately compassionate techniques like computer modeling, and internships for students at established veterinary practices.

Setting up a program in which animals are pre-selected from a "shelter" to be killed and whose bodies are sent out to the dissection mill also gives students the clear message that animals are expendable commodities whose lives - and deaths - are meaningless. It makes a mockery of the misfortunes and maltreatment they suffered at the hands of random fate or negligent guardians before they had the even worse luck to end up incarcerated in the shelter system. Such desensitization toward those who were only shortly before living, breathing, sentient beings capable of feeling the same pain and loneliness as any human can induce attitudes of callousness and contempt with the potential for escalating abuse of animals that ultimately "graduates" to people.

It seems that the idea of NO KILL is becoming more and more an elusive fantasy. It shows that Ed Boks is now abandoning all pretense at attempting to implement the policies, protocols, procedures, and programs that would lead Los Angeles in the direction of that supposedly stipulated objective. He has empirically failed dismally at it - with kill stats higher than ever before despite his lies and disingenuous endeavors to "cook the books." Perhaps now he has discovered yet another category to be conveniently omitted from the kill numbers - not to mention one which can allow him to facetiously boast that he is "supporting education" while he commodifies the dead. Ed is nothing if not a shameless opportunist and proven dissembler of the first order.

Los Angeles is progressively becoming more unfriendly to the animals who live off this City's streets. They are terrorized by the environment's inherent dangers and then by a shelter system that provides little relief other than an unceremonious and undeserved death.

This spiritually repugnant proposition which Ed Boks supports, must be stopped in its tracks.