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Here's a succinct letter to the editor that summarizes the emotional blackmail propogated by animalresearchers. The million dollar ad campaign by the Foundation for Biomedical Research (“Critical research,” Nov. Tags: animalresearch drug companies medical research.
More criticism of the quality of animalresearch. Here is the Editor of "New Scientist" who suppports animalresearch, BUT he points out the terrible quality of the research and reliability of the results. It really hurts the scientific community's arguments that animalresearch saves lives.
If you really want to ruin your day, visit this web page with a list of government grants involving animalresearch. It has a list of grant applications, researchers and details on the actual studies. Tags: animal experimentation animalresearch military medical research us. Not pretty.
Yale animalresearchers complain that all these darn regulations for animal welfare are creating too much paperwork. Tags: Yale animalresearch. insert crying baby here).
Tags: animal experimentation animalresearch medical research science. I think we could change things even sooner, but I just don't see the will or the interest in most of the scientific community. I just don't understand why.
The animalresearch supporter I know says "we can do a better job of treating lab animals." Tags: animalresearch colorado state university. Another university cited.
The writer of this Guardian article supports animalresearch, but admits there are many problems with the research itself. His arguments are not based on humane treatment of the animals, but whether these studies are even properly conducted. Tags: animalresearch.
He said this research, along with other research that could vastly improve human quality of life, could absolutely not be done without animal testing, and wishes more people understood that “animalresearch is not cruel or inhumane, it benefits us all.” Does it benefit the animals?
They have paying members that are part of the animalresearch industry itself. Cleverly, they also emphasize how many "animals" are saved by animalresearch. Wouldn't Fluffy die without all the benefits of animal testing? Here's the organization's defense of its primate veterinarian members.
WISC-TV has learned that a public debate on the ethics of monkey research will be held on campus in March, keeping alive a touchy campus debate that's been brewing for years. Tags: animalresearch primates university of madison-wisconsin.
Tags: Charles River Laboratories animalresearch USDA. Even I didn't realize how bad it was until I read this article from the Associated Press. The spotlight is on Charles River Laboratories. This article lists some of the universities and private corporations with violations.
Big pharma is also involved in promoting animalresearch 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.
Here it is.the US Meat AnimalResearch Center. Tags: meat USDA cattle. Good site to visit to see what they're up to. Obviously, all the pictures will probably be nice and clean.
The "brave" animalresearchers are taking their argument to the public and bypassing animal right activists. a billboard funded by the Foundation for Biomedical Research. Thanks to animalresearch, you won't." Let's discuss the research. Here's an example. Ever had leprosy.
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. This is a long article from the Gainesville Sun.
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 don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists. I don't believe they are working for human welfare.
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. Tags: animalresearch medical research.
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.
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. What if an animal doesn't make it through?
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.
Animalresearch facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department. Now, I know it doesn't solve everything, but it's another chink in the armor. From the LA Times.
Dr Wirth said animal testing was increasing, with Victoria doing more research than any other state. Tags: australia animal experimentation animalresearch. "The selling of dogs from the pound for this purpose is morally wrong. They are owned by somebody," he said.
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. To see an issue of such moral debate minimized to simply economic activity is just not right.
The Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) announced today it has launched a one-year national animalresearch education campaign. Since 2004, public support for humane animalresearch to advance human and animal health has fallen 10 points. Once again, they're just using their most effective weapon.guilt.
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?
Rodent of the Week" supposedly highlights the "good things" that come out of animalresearch. But even this peppy little piece discusses the weaknesses of animalresearch. Tags: Los Angeles animalresearch. Here's a weird little piece I came across. Clearly, a PR instrument. So why not just end it?
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.
This protest comes after an undercover PETA investigator collected evidence of alleged animal abuse in the University laboratories. Tags: animalresearch utah medical research PETA.
Tags: universities animal experimentation UK animalresearch wales cardiff university. In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia.
The new facility is expected to result in 253 additional permanent jobs on the WVU campus, including 13 directly in the animal quarters and 240 in biomedical research laboratories around the Health Sciences Center. Tags: west virginia university animalresearch Obama tax dollars us.
The feud between animal rights 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.
California recently passed a law protecting animalresearchers from animal activists. Justice's hammer falls again and again until it ends when the price is a helpless animals life, --Feminists for Animal Liberation. Tags: academic research ALF. In the short term at least, it's not working.
But how many animalresearch supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? How many of them actually see these animals in the labs? Tags: animal experimentation UK europe research alternatives medical research.
Tags: ALF. On a long enough drive or a hot enough day the mufflers will be blown off. Leave the primates out of your inept and outdated science and we will leave you out of our quest for justice.".
Tags: animal testing. If you go to the very top, there are tabs for FierceBiotechResearch and other topics. Note - this company has a lot of industry news sites on a wide range of topics, so they do more then just drug company news. I've never heard of them before.
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.
This protest against animalresearch happened last Thursday. Tags: Cambridge University UK animalresearch protests. Apparently, they were "disrupting university business" and security guards were called in. This link has a video.
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: animalresearch medical ethics medical research. Long and impressive expose.
Interesting article on anti-animalresearch advocacy in Madison, WI. Tags: animalresearch medical research university of madison-wisconsin. Madison is a key battleground because it is one of only 8 cities with primate centers in the country.
I am a fervent opponent of animalresearch, but stalking, or any kind of threatening action, just doesn't work. Tags: animalresearch california. It simply creates sympathy and bad pr for the rest of us. So, while I understand this protester's convictions, I vehemently disagree with her methods. They do no good.
Here's an article in Nature about how many animal studies with negative or inconclusive results go unpublished. It raises the question of how useful animalresearch really is if we only see the studies that show relevant results. Tags: animalresearch drug companies animal studies.
million for an underground vivarium that will house University of Iowa animalresearch laboratories. The 35,000-square-foot facility would connect the Medical Education Research Facility and Carver Biomedical Research Building on the west side of campus. Poor, poor long-suffering animalresearchers.
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.
Research dollars are what keep animalresearch alive in the US.and control of those research dollars may be the only way to eventually kill it too. Tags: UK animalresearch. At least there is some interest out there. And it's fueled by one thing.research dollars.
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