Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

California recently passed a law protecting animal researchers from animal activists. Ralph Freeman has killed cats and kittens in his laboratory at UC Berkeley with no benefit for humans for over twenty years. Tags: academic research ALF. In the short term at least, it's not working. This law changes NOTHING.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2010

PETA and the Alliance for Animals are asking for charges to be filed against the University of Wisconsin at Madison. It is illegal in Wisconsin to kill an animal by means of decompression. The research is an effort to prevent "the bends," or injuries to divers as they ascend from deep water.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

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 not shocked enough.

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