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Last Monday (January 18, 2010), this country reached a milestone with regard to animalresearch when a booklet on the ‘Guidelines for Ethics Review of Research Proposals Involving Animals in Sri Lanka’, was launched at a simple ceremony held at the Colombo Medical Faculty presided over by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof.
They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy. The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. Even if you become 100 percent vegan, how much of the drugs you take, the makeup you wear and the cleaning products you use have been tested on an animal?
Here's a scathing overview in Primate Freedom of the new organization "Pro-Test," an organization of animalresearchers who want to advocate for their work. Tags: animalresearchmedicalethicsmedicalresearch. Long and impressive expose.
This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animalresearch. Tags: animal experimentation europe animalresearchmedicalresearch.
I occasionally read Scienceblog when there is mention of animalresearch issues. It's a site that, according to its own description, is half reader blogs and half press releases from research institutions. Here's the first of an apparent series by a blogger on why we need to do animal testing.part 1 - drug discovery!!!
I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. But see the qualifications in the article.The animalresearch has offered one explanation for the rising number of babies born with these conditions. So, why put the animals through this if it's not even a reflective experiment.
I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animalresearcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]
In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.
There are many excellent books on issues related to animalresearch. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animalresearch issues is knowing the arguments in support of animalresearch. It is not a free country for animals in laboratories, but it is a comparatively free one for you.
This is one of the reasons why we are still on the losing end of the battle with animalresearchers. Tags: animal experimentation medicalethicsmedicalresearch science. We don't speak their language as well as they do and society at large tends to listen to those who sound like they are "experts."
I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medicalresearch. Tags: animal experimentation animalresearch. From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6 The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.
Deka, director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after watching a video allegedly exposing animal cruelty at the New Delhi centre. "It It broke my heart to see the suffering that is documented in the enclosed video", wrote Anderson, in a letter sent on behalf of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
An animal-rights group that watchdogs research facilities across the country has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, citing multiple incidents in which animals were injured, escaped from their cages or were found dead. From the normantranscript.com.
There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. He writes, "The dog remained a vital tool in biomedical research for more than 300 years and was the vehicle for a remarkable run of medical breakthroughs.".
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