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Exposing the Pharmaceutical Industry's Interest in Animal Research

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In the United States, we are in the midst of a health care debate in which the pharmaceutical industry disguises itself as a champion of the people. Big pharma is also involved in promoting animal research for its own benefit. But animal research is necessary, they also claim, because there are simply no other alternatives.

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AVMA Reveals Itself As Apologist for Animal Research

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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. Wouldn't Fluffy die without all the benefits of animal testing? Here's the organization's defense of its primate veterinarian members.

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Growing Number of Scientists Question Animal Research

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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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RSPCA Collects 68,000 Signatures Supporting an End to Animal Research

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But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? How many of them actually see these animals in the labs? Tags: animal experimentation UK europe research alternatives medical research.

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A Place to Look For Animal Research News

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I stumbled across this site called FiercePharma that has all kinds of news about the drug industry. Note - this company has a lot of industry news sites on a wide range of topics, so they do more then just drug company news. Tags: animal testing. I've never heard of them before.

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Will Arizona Exempt Animal Testing from Cruelty Laws?

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This is all about making the stupid state friendly to the biotech industry. Tags: animal research biotech arizona. Supposedly people either 1) believe the State has no place overseeing labs (USDA does that) and 2) bioscience is already very well-regulated. They get a huge tax break?

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Group Pursues Investigation of US Labs

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researchers for allegedly filing fraudulent documents and performing nearly identical experimentation in violation of federal regulations, the organization said in a news release. The animal research industry is just as unregulated as Wall Street was before the current economic crisis," said Michael A.