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I don't support animalresearch and I have no sympathy for animalresearchers. I don't believe they want an honest dialogue about what they are doing to animals. I do believe they want prestige, tenure, royalties and patent rights. I would never advocate violence against a researcher.
The "brave" animalresearchers are taking their argument to the public and bypassing animalright activists. a billboard funded by the Foundation for Biomedical Research. Thanks to animalresearch, you won't." Let's discuss the research. Let's discuss the research. Here's an example.
Not sure I agree with posting the researcher's photo. Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.) Animalrights 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.
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.
To see an issue of such moral debate minimized to simply economic activity is just not right. Tags: animalresearch Obama University of North Carolina federal stimulus. But it disappoints and frustrates me to see it consistently used for purposes that I passionately oppose.
The feud between animalrights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animalresearch remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.
This article in the Herald Tribune claims that animalrights is winning out over animalresearch. I would take the article with a grain of salt. I've read the same on the other side. It depends on who's writing the article of course.I think it's still a long, long fight. But perhaps these are positive signs.
MALAYSIA will not shut down a controversial British-funded animal testing lab after investigations showed that the animals were not exposed to torture, a senior official said on Thursday. Tags: animalresearch malaysia.
Animalrights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!" From Oregonlive.
Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. That's because of a little-known state law that requires government-run pounds to turn animals over to researchers if asked.
Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) An Ohio-based animalrights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Sounds awful.
The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animalresearch laboratory based near Cambridge. Tags: europe activism huntingdon animalrights. I support their cause, but am uncomfortable with their tactics. From Reuters.
For all of you who think there are no moral quandaries to vivisection and animalresearch, read this. At least someone who has conducted animalresearch has a conscience and is willing to write about it. They just want to take away our rights to research!" In fact, read the whole 5-part series in Slate.
Thanks to Patty at AnimalRights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. There are many excellent books on issues related to animalresearch. For sleuthing on animal experimentation, you will want to visit a library with good science holdings. Get FOIAed Up!
Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Unfortunately, the CTA is requiring Air Canada to continue shipping primates to laboratories while it considers the issue. "We
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.
I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animalrights group.) These scientists are NOT an animalrights group. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animalresearch is useless.
A British animalrights activist is starting a prison sentence after being found guilty of (I think) conspiracy to commit arson. He planted petrol bombs at Oxford University to protest plans to build an animalresearch laboratory. Tags: UK activism animalrightsanimal laboratories.
The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Under pressure from animalrights groups and the public, many airlines have banned the practice.
Aside from their support of animalresearch, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. for cancer research. It's not just a question of animalrights. The more fattening food you eat, the more money goes to cancer research. Komen Foundation.
According to this interview, he credits animalrights extremists for fueling the public backlash against animal protection. Tags: UK animalresearch. Discouraging article.
Malaysia, under pressure from animalrights activists, is going to investigate Progenix Labs. Malaysia is considering shutting down a controversial British-funded animal testing lab if there is evidence of cruelty there, the goverment's top veterinary official said on Sunday. Tags: animalresearch malaysia.
Charles River Labs, a company which develops drugs and conducts contract animal testing, has an atrocious animalrights record, although they deny it of course. Now, they are continuing their plans to grow into a significant drug research company by acquiring WuXi AppTec Co, a Chinese pharmaceutical contractor.
An animalrights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animalresearch vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.
An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. Tags: austria animalresearch pigs. From USA Today.
An Alachua County Circuit Court judge has ordered the University of Florida to provide an animalrights activist with records on primates involved in research. She said UF resisted releasing the records out of concern about the safety of researchers.
To which I say, many universities are just as opaque and irresponsible in their animal care as any private sector entity. I'm as skeptical about this claim as other animalrights advocates. Tags: animalresearch hamner institutes university of chapel hill.
They've been planning to build a facility to breed research monkeys in Puerto Rico for some time. That didn't make it right. Tags: puerto rico animalresearch primates. Plus, well, you get this picture. Hey, it's a chance for some jobs for the young folks. I'm sorry, but this is not the way to create jobs.
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 animalrights activist, and the third is an animalresearcher. This quote from the animalrights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]
I'm trying to come up with a book for my book club about animalrights. One is a huge supporter of animalresearch. But now we have "Eating Animals,"by Jonathan Safran Foer. Sounds pretty powerful. What do I choose? All of them are meat eaters, two because their "doctors" told them they had to eat meat.
I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director.
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.
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 animalrights group after settling a lawsuit over animal shelter records. For the full story, go to NECN.com.
This gives animalrights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. Bill Richardson on Thursday the chimps will not be transferred to a San Antonio, Texas, facility until the National Academy of Sciences reviews policies on using chimpanzees in biomedical research. Good way to end 2010.
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.
Animal-rights activists are urging Air Canada to stop shipping live monkeys and other animals destined for experimentation, saying the airline can change its tariff rules if it wants. I don't think it's likely that Air Canada is going to budge on this. Excerpted from the Montreal Gazette.
Are animalrights organizations more effective? At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. Is public outcry greater? What gives?
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