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This protest comes after an undercover PETA investigator collected evidence of alleged animal abuse in the University laboratories. Tags: animalresearch utah medical researchPETA.
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? They are so polarizing.
From PETA'sAnimal Times (I tore out the page and there's no date anymore.but it was 2009). Komen Foundation *British Heart Foundation *World Cancer Research Fund I can't tell you all what I do for a living because it's kind of sensitive, but let's just say that my unit has had dealings with Susan G.
PETA's undercover investigation showed some really questionable practices going on in the University of Utah's animalresearch program. Here, the Salt Lake Tribune tries to smooth things over by showing the "happy side, " by talking about the research subjects that end up being adopted. So sad, too bad?
Animal Person , someone who is clearly smarter than me, has a great analysis about the recent "Pepper" series in Slate about animalresearch. At least he didn't try to make me feel happy or warm and fuzzy about animalresearch. Animal Person points out this comment made by Daniel Engber, the author.
An undercover PETA investigator shot hours of footage of alleged mistreatment of animals. s vice president for research. It's a remarkably banal list of ordinary events in an animal-care facility." Tags: universities animalresearch utah undercover investigation PETA. Certainly a case to follow.
The PETA activist who worked undercover at the University of Utah, and collected video footage of alleged mistreatment of lab animals, was also involved in an operation at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Tags: university researchanimalresearch undercover investigation PETA.
Now PETA is saying that the NIH (National Institutes of Health) should take back the grant money it gave the university. Tags: animalresearch Kansas PETA. Sorry for the cynicism, but.HAH! Good luck with that argument! The NIH doesn't take back grant money.
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. Tags: animal experimentation animalresearch primates PETA NASA.
It's a flurry of activity out there in the animalresearch fight! This one involves PETA and Saginaw Valley State University. Tags: PETA Saginaw Valley State University.
Some of the animals are 60 years old and veterans of the US space program. Tags: chimpanzees animalresearch primates National Institutes of Health PETA new mexico. The Governor of New Mexico has already met with the National Institutes of Health to try and stop this transfer with no apparent success.
Awful story, but this is the reason I support PETA, even when they do wacky things sometimes. We applaud the dedicated efforts of animal welfare advocates who stepped up to take in these animals, and hope that the exposure of this situation will underscore the need for stricter enforcement to protect animals in research facilities."
Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. Tags: animalresearchanimal shelters strays.
Follow-up from the Utah scandal in which shelter animals were being sold for research purposes. The Davis County Commission has agreed to pay the legal fees of an animal rights group after settling a lawsuit over animal shelter records. PETA will have access to the requested records.
PETA and the Alliance for Animals are asking for charges to be filed against the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The university stopped conducting the experiments last fall when it learned that it may have been violating state law, said Eric Sandgren, who oversees animalresearch at UW-Madison.
Now animal shelters have the right to refuse to release animals to the University of Utah for animalresearch. Davis County Animal Shelter, a key supplier to the University of Utah, has already ceased this practice. Tags: animalresearch utah university of utah legislation PETA.
They received citations for animal welfare infractions, although apparently few of these infractions overlap with PETA claims from an undercover investigation. Tags: animalresearch utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA. You decide. From the Deseret News.
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.
Investigative journalism by the Salt Lake Tribune, following-up on allegations levelled by PETA against the University of Utah's Comparative Medicine Center and the Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute laboratories revealed the two laboratories had used 190 dogs and cats in 2009, all obtained from shelters.
Her letter to the Indian research facility is pretty distressing. Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. "It Sounds like she watched a harsh video.
PETA has complained to the USDA that the University of Texas has been severely mistreating its lab animals. There may be a surprise inspection, but I don't really understand how effective a "surprise" inspection is when the facility is notified in advance!!
Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.
But it certainly raised my awareness that animals are used in military trauma-training exercises. Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and poisoned every year in Department of Defense (DoD) training exercises designed to train medics and infantry in how to treat various human battlefield injuries.
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