The animal testing industry portrays him as a scientist dedicated to saving lives and finding cures. But who really was Frederick Banting?

 

After killing thousands of dogs in insulin studies in the 1920’s, only to repeat information already known, Frederick Banting continued on into a new line of work... the development of biological weapons. The man vivisectionists would have us believe was a humanitarian was actually dedicated to finding new ways to destroy large civilian populations and spread disease.

His accomplishments include infected bullets, work on releasing disease-carrying insects as weapons, and large-scale spraying of deadly bacteria.¹

 

In The Biology of Doom, author Ed Regis states, “The Canadians had a germ warfare project under way by 1940… it had been motivated by a country doctor and funded by a group of private investors. The doctor was Frederick Banting.”²

 

Regis tells us that Banting believed in, “the use of bacteria and viruses as offensive weapons,” and that he considered conducting warfare by, “swarms of disease-carrying insects and disperse them over cities, you could infect bullets, bombs, and artillery shells with bacteria before firing them at the enemy.”³

 

1. John Bryden, Deadly Allies: Canada’s Secret War 1937-1947 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1989).

2,3. Ed Regis, The Biology of Doom: America’s Secret Germ Warfare Project (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1999), 23-4.