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Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
The EU's executive Commission last year proposed a range of measures to improve the welfare of the 12 million vertebrate animals used in experiments each year, mostly mice and rats. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers. Tags: europe animal research medical research.
Critter News
AUGUST 10, 2009
Big pharma is also involved in promoting animal research for its own benefit. It claims that it must research on animals in order to save people, but then charges such high costs for drugs to these same people that many, even in the rich country of the US, must forego them and risk their lives.
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
The increase was largely due to new EU rules on chemical compounds, which have led to an increase in testing on rats, the inspectors said. More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research. Tags: animal research Netherlands.
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
And let's not forget the required sanctimonious quote from an animal researcher “Our primates are essential partners in medical progress, as are mice, rats, guinea pigs and opossums. Tags: primates medical research. Oh brother.
Critter News
OCTOBER 24, 2009
But see the qualifications in the article.The animal research has offered one explanation for the rising number of babies born with these conditions. However, it involved exposing rats to chemicals at levels that humans are usually not exposed to. So, why put the animals through this if it's not even a reflective experiment.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
Actually, I didn't quit neuroscience as a result of the experiences described, but I did quit working with animals. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. But that's neither here nor there -- I'm very supportive of animal research in principle.
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