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Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animalresearch. website, where she posted the researcher's address and a picture of his home.
After two years of heated debate on how to protect animal welfare without scuppering scientific research, the new limits, updating regulations from 1986, were adopted by the European Parliament despite objections from Green MEPs. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.".
It's in response to the arrest of Yale animal technician Raymond Clark for the murder of Annie Le, but makes some important points about animalresearch. No wonder the research community wraps a "saves lives" cloak around its work whether falsified journal articles or Larson's "speech" studies. For how many years?
PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. Tags: animalresearch Stupid primates NASA. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. We can't even get out of Afghanistan and we're going to Mars. Give me an effing break.
I'm behind on my email and only just read this action alert from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Another crass attempt at primate slavery for money wrapped in "we put people first" robes." Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animalresearchprimates medical research.
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. My personal philosophy is that millions of animals shouldn't suffer on anyone's behalf, especially when they do so against their will. I really hope this passes.
Johannesburg - A Bloemfontein man received a criminal record on Friday for a "backyard experiment" on a pregnant monkey, the NSPCA said. He had severed her spinal cord to paralyse her for a "backyard experiment. The NSPCA in November 2008 charged Jordaan for his "merciless treatment" of a heavily pregnant vervet monkey.
I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Plus, are mice comparable to kids (although I would prefer mice subjects to primates who are so much more sensitive)? One of the conclusions? Don't let your mouse watch TV."
I live in Seattle and, while I don't always agree with PETA, I hate the UW's animalresearch practices. I don't believe these animals get the quality of care they deserve for the suffering they undergo. If you "humanize" the animal and grow attached, how can you conduct experiments on it?
An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England PrimateResearch Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act.
April Jean Evans was a NASA engineer, but resigned her position in protest over radiation experiments on monkeys. She's living with her brother now and falling into debt, but she is dedicated to working with PETA and other organizations to try to ban primates in experiments. That takes a lot of courage and conviction.
However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National PrimateResearch Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.".
Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. It's from a Reuters article from last May.I
Michelle Basso was a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who worked with primates. She testified in favor of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Now, she's been suspended from working with animals.
The contract expires next year and Richardson opposes a plan by the agency to transfer the chimps from the Alamogordo Primate Facility, where they are no longer used for medical testing. The animals can be used again for medical experiments if transferred to the Southwest National PrimateResearch Center in San Antonio, Texas.
A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. The activists say Malaysia has no regulations on animalresearch, which could lead to test subjects being abused.
This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments. Sincerely, Tags: chimpanzees animalresearch almagordo primates new mexico. They deserve better and we are capable of providing them with better.
Videos showed mistreatment of the lab animals. The Humane Society wants 9 chimps that are not being "used" as part of experiments to be released to a sanctuary. I just love the language used by the Research Center's spokesperson. {Dr. This is the same place that was nailed by a Humane Society undercover investigation.
For more than a year, we have worked to block NASA’s planned radiation experiments on live squirrel monkeys. We have just learned that the experiments have been cancelled. Due to the basic anatomical, biological, and physiological differences between squirrel monkeys and humans, these experiments were destined to fail.
This is a link to a recent scandal at a primate center in Louisiana. And researching the company she works for makes me wonder whether the clinical trials she sells actually include animalexperiments. Tags: animalresearch. link] I don't want to go into details, but it's bad. She supports this.
They include reports on 16 incidences of fractures received by primates and one swine during handling between 2007 and 2009. Six of the primates and the swine are reported to have been euthanised as a result.
I recently was escorted through a large primateresearch laboratory by its director. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. Tags: animal experimentation animalresearch. How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
President Obama promised to eliminate wasteful government spending; funding for animalresearch is one area that is overdue for reform. Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. Tags: animalresearch Obama. Gundl Bhutani Sarasota.
In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. Anyway, I couldn't enter the actual rooms where the animals were kept because I would have had to wear a bio-hazard suit.
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