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Primate Breeding Facility Generates Controversy In Puerto Rico Itself

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Plus the fact that I personally know the Latin attitude towards animals. They've been planning to build a facility to breed research monkeys in Puerto Rico for some time. Tags: puerto rico animal research primates. Plus, the horrible pictures I've seen of strays in Puerto Rico. Plus, well, you get this picture.

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation. Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animal research primates medical research.

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DeMuth Agrees to Plea Bargain

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Instead, DeMuth will plead guilty to conspiring to damage a Minnesota company that breeds ferrets. Tags: animal research animal enterprise terrorism act FBI. DeMuth was originally charged in connection with a 2004 lab break-in at the University of Iowa that caused more than $400,000 in damage.

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Rats Taking Over from Mice in Labs

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Morse, corporate vice president for research model services at Charles River Laboratories, a Wilmington company that started by breeding lab rats in 1947 and has become a major supplier of rodents for research. “To what degree the rat will replace the mouse remains to be seen,’’ said Iva S.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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Actually, I didn't quit neuroscience as a result of the experiences described, but I did quit working with animals. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. But that's neither here nor there -- I'm very supportive of animal research in principle. But that's now what happened.