Critter News
JANUARY 18, 2010
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. The two-week experiment involving 29 pigs began Tuesday in the Western Austrian Alps. From USA Today.
Critter News
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. Surgical simulators and supervised operating room experience work just fine.
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Critter News
MARCH 19, 2010
It is illegal in Wisconsin to kill an animal by means of decompression. The university stopped conducting the experiments last fall when it learned that it may have been violating state law, said Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research at UW-Madison.
Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. Tags: animal experimentation animal research.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
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.
Critter News
JULY 7, 2009
This particular animal research controversy is occurring in New South Wales (Australia). Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.
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