Help Release Chimps from Medical Research
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MARCH 17, 2009
Tags: chimpanzees animal research animal cruelty vivisection anti-cruelty medical research. Visit this site. Project R&R is a campaign of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society.
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Leona Helmsley's Fortune Goes to Medical Research
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APRIL 23, 2009
Over $100 million went to medical research while about $1 million went to animal welfare causes. But a group of trustees got together, determined she was mentally unfit at the time, and decided to “responsibly” donate to medical research instead. It’s more money for medical research. To human causes.
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Class "B" Animals Sold for Medical Research
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APRIL 13, 2009
In the shadow of a $5 million-dollar grant given to Oklahoma State’s renowned veterinary school and then rescinded due to allegations of abusive and cruel animal research practices, Oklahoma State University Philosophy Club and Friends of the Forms will host animal activist Chris DeRose. DeRose will speak at 7 p.m., Truly unfair.
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Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting
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OCTOBER 21, 2010
An Ohio-based animal rights 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. Harvard Medical School has not listed those primates as receiving unrelieved pain or distress, Budkie said.
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Is Medical Research on Animals REALLY the Only Way?
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MARCH 10, 2009
Here's my response on medical research in general. I recently had a discussion about medical research using animals. This story on HIV research is one example. Tags: animal experimentation medical research monkeys. Perhaps it was a necessary “evil.” It’s just a question of WILL.
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American Veterinary Medical Association Makes Despicable Decision
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JULY 11, 2009
An AVMA resolution was quietly killed this afternoon that would have revised its policy on use of random-source dogs and cats for research, testing and education. Tags: breeders animal research veterinarians animal shelters medical research avma. From Veterinary News.
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Anti-Research Advocacy in Madison
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JUNE 15, 2010
Interesting article on anti-animal research advocacy in Madison, WI. Tags: animal research 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.
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Government Grants for Animal Research
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APRIL 2, 2009
If you really want to ruin your day, visit this web page with a list of government grants involving animal research. It has a list of grant applications, researchers and details on the actual studies. Tags: animal experimentation animal research military medical research us. Not pretty.
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Will Animal Research Ever End?
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JUNE 5, 2009
Some scientists say it could end in a generation if we pursue the creation of "virtual humans" and living cell banks as research replacements. Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical research science. I just don't understand why.
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Animal Researchers' Emotional Blackmail
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NOVEMBER 14, 2009
Here's a succinct letter to the editor that summarizes the emotional blackmail propogated by animal researchers. The million dollar ad campaign by the Foundation for Biomedical Research (“Critical research,” Nov. Tags: animal research drug companies medical research. How stupid do they think we are?
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Breeders Also Supply Universities with Research Animals
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MAY 26, 2009
I didn't know that there were specific breeders out there producing animal subjects for medical research. According to this article, some are so bad that the University of California and the University of Cincinnati have actually decided to end their relationships with them and stop purchasing animals bred for research use.
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100 Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories
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OCTOBER 12, 2009
I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I would never advocate violence against a researcher. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. All of this BS by medical researchers must be challenged.
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Marines Still Using Pigs for Medical Training
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AUGUST 13, 2009
It's the best way to train medical personnel. Tags: animal research military pigs. The Marines also claim that using live pigs and inflicting wounds on them is the only way to approximate real-life situations in combat. Read and decide for yourself.
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European Money Goes to Alternative Testing Research
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
We're not even talking drugs or medical treatment here, we're talking stupid cosmetics. A substantial fund of EUR50 million (US$74 million) is being offered to European research teams to develop alternatives to animal testing for cosmetics and related industries. It's disheartening. From the University World News.
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Some History on the New Iberia Research Center
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MARCH 23, 2009
Here's some background on the New Iberia Research Center, target of the Humane Society investigation showing alleged chimpanzee abuse. Tags: chimpanzees animal experimentation humane society new iberia research center medical research us.
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Growing Number of Scientists Question Animal Research
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APRIL 4, 2009
The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research 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.
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Some Groups that Still Support Animal Research
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SEPTEMBER 9, 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. Tags: animal research medical research.
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University of Louisiana Plays Defense on Primate Research
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APRIL 16, 2009
They are at least admitting there are problems with standard operating procedures at New Iberia Research Center. Tags: animal cruelty exper new iberia research center primates medical research. Officials claim to be taking steps to correct certain problems.
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Animal Researchers Use Billboards to Promote Themselves
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OCTOBER 29, 2009
The "brave" animal researchers are taking their argument to the public and bypassing animal right activists. a billboard funded by the Foundation for Biomedical Research. Thanks to animal research, you won't." I for one welcome them coming out of the woodwork and forcing animal research into the public forum.
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Jane Goodall Quote on New Iberia Research Center
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MARCH 16, 2009
Jane Goodall responding to the Nightline special detailing the mistreatment of hundreds of chimpanzees and other primates at New Iberia Research Center. Tags: chimpanzees new iberia research center primates medical research.
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100 Cutting Duplicative Research Could Save Millions
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Just read an August update from an ALDF lawyer about medical research. But would researchers be willing to share their results? Tags: animal research. I was struck by this paragraph. That's a lot of saved lives. Doubtful if it means endangering their potential patents.
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PETA Leads Anti-Animal Research Protest at University of Utah
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NOVEMBER 22, 2009
Tags: animal research utah medical research PETA. This protest comes after an undercover PETA investigator collected evidence of alleged animal abuse in the University laboratories.
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100 Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals
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AUGUST 25, 2009
Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. Around 10,000 are bred and exported from Mauritius to the US, UK and Japan.
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100 Biomedical Foundation Launches Campaign to Show Animal Research is Grrrrrrreat!
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
The Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) announced today it has launched a one-year national animal research education campaign. Since 2004, public support for humane animal research to advance human and animal health has fallen 10 points.
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Vast Majority of Medical Schools Do NOT Use Animals To Teach Surgery
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APRIL 18, 2010
Only one of the interesting points in this opinion piece on animal research by Lee Schneider on the Huffington Post. Only three accredited medical schools in the whole country use animals to teach surgery. Tags: University of Tennessee animal research Uniformed Services University Johns Hopkins University.
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100 Sri Lanka Attempts to Establish Animal Research Guidelines
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JANUARY 25, 2010
Last Monday (January 18, 2010), this country reached a milestone with regard to animal research 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.
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British Center Working On Animal Replacement in Research?
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APRIL 4, 2009
The group is called NC3E (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research). The Centre funds high-quality 3Rs research, organises workshops and symposia to disseminate and advance the 3Rs, and develops 3Rs information resources and guidelines.
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AVMA Reveals Itself As Apologist for Animal Research
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AUGUST 8, 2009
It should be no surprise that the American Veterinary Medical Association is an apologist. They have paying members that are part of the animal research industry itself. Cleverly, they also emphasize how many "animals" are saved by animal research. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates avma.
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Settlement Forces Animal Research Facilities to Disclose More
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JULY 6, 2009
Animal research 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. Tags: animal experimentation animal research humane society USDA medical research.
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Exposing the Pharmaceutical Industry's Interest in Animal Research
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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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OCTOBER 31, 2010
This looks like its for farming of livestock, not medical research, but that's bad too. Research on animals is research on animals. Mike Rounds wants a biotech animal research facility built in South Dakota. Tags: livestock agriculture. From the High Plains Journal.
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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center
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MARCH 15, 2009
The warning cited three errors in veterinary care, including a serious 2007 incident where a pregnant monkey died when a researcher failed to notice she was having a troubled labor. And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response.
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100 RSPCA Collects 68,000 Signatures Supporting an End to Animal Research
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
I really believe the more people learn about what research animals go through, the more common decency becomes a factor. But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? They are too disturbed, frightened, or threatened to do so.
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JUNE 20, 2009
Tags: university research animal research welfare violations medical research animal laboratories. .: A 2006 USDA inspection report faulted the school for withholding anesthesia from piglets and lambs during procedures without adequate scientific justification for doing so.
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Read an Analysis of Slate's Animal Research Series
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JUNE 9, 2009
Animal Person , someone who is clearly smarter than me, has a great analysis about the recent "Pepper" series in Slate about animal research. At least he didn't try to make me feel happy or warm and fuzzy about animal research. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.
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JULY 12, 2009
In addition to troubling questions about its legality, such a facility would also place Puerto Rico behind the curve in the current context of scientific debate about laboratory research involving live animals. Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animal research primates medical research.
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Profile of "Pro-Test"
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
Here's a scathing overview in Primate Freedom of the new organization "Pro-Test," an organization of animal researchers who want to advocate for their work. Tags: animal research medical ethics medical research. Long and impressive expose.
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AUGUST 18, 2009
This editorial in the web version of the Oklahoman denounces animal rights terrorism; however, it finishes off by supporting medical research on animals. But they do try to cover themselves by pointing out they oppose cosmetics research.). Tags: animal rights medical research.
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Almagordo Chimp Story Hits the New York Times
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
These aging chimps deserve to retire permanently and NOT be subjected to more medical research. Tags: chimpanzees primates National Institutes of Health medical research new mexico. Here's hoping this poignant story will stir more public outrage and pressure on the NIH.
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Elizabeth Kucinich and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
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OCTOBER 30, 2009
She's the new Director of Public Affairs and she's already started lobbying for the Great Ape Protection Act, which would phase out invasive medical research on chimpanzees. Tags: chimpanzees activism apes medical research us. For you international readers, she's Dennis Kucinich's wife.
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100 Poet Laureate of California Questions Animal Testing
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Tags: animal research medical research. Here's her piece in the Huffington Post.
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100 USDA Investigating Clemson University
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MAY 15, 2009
The investigation is related to the Animal Welfare Act and Clemson's research activities, but no details are available at this time. Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research USDA medical research.
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World Week for Animals in Laboratories is April 16-26
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APRIL 10, 2009
Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical research. I like this short opinion letter that gets right to the point.
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100 Support the Great Ape Protection Act
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MARCH 7, 2009
Tags: chimpanzees animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty medical research. End the use of chimpanzees in animal experiments. It's unconscionable.
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