Critter News

MAY 26, 2009

Nice article about people who are committed to defending "lab rats" used for medical research. Tags: rats animal experimentation laboratories medical research. I've worked with rats and I find them charming and intelligent creatures. So I think it's sad to read this.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

I do believe they want prestige, tenure, royalties and patent rights. I don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists. I think they are clever cowards who use extremists to hide their work and to obfuscate the truth about what they do to animals and whether it is truly necessary.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2009

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 animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]

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APRIL 4, 2009

This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week. The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. Even if you become 100 percent vegan, how much of the drugs you take, the makeup you wear and the cleaning products you use have been tested on an animal?

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MARCH 14, 2012

This article in the Herald Tribune claims that animal rights is winning out over animal research. I would take the article with a grain of salt. It depends on who's writing the article of course.I I've read the same on the other side. think it's still a long, long fight.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. I especially like these suggestions. Get On-Line The world is a web and you are its spider.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

Full article in the Gainesville Sun. An Alachua County Circuit Court judge has ordered the University of Florida to provide an animal rights activist with records on primates involved in research. This is good news, at least in my opinion.

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