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Animal Welfare Concerns May Be Influencing UK Animal Research

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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. I've read the same on the other side. It depends on who's writing the article of course.I think it's still a long, long fight. But perhaps these are positive signs.

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Yale Animal Researchers Complain About Paperwork

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MARCH 4, 2010

Yale animal researchers complain that all these darn regulations for animal welfare are creating too much paperwork. Tags: Yale animal research. insert crying baby here).

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Sri Lanka Attempts to Establish Animal Research Guidelines

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Last Monday (January 18, 2010), this country reached a milestone with regard to animal research when a booklet on the ‘Guidelines for Ethics Review of Research Proposals Involving Animals in Sri Lanka’, was launched at a simple ceremony held at the Colombo Medical Faculty presided over by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof.

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Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I don't believe they are working for human welfare. I don't believe they want an honest dialogue about what they are doing to animals. I don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists.

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Key AETA Supporter Suspended Over Animal Welfare

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MAY 8, 2010

Now, she's been suspended from working with animals. From Current.com She was recently suspended from working with animals, a “rare move prompted by what officials called a ‘clear pattern’ of problems with animal welfare.”

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Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) From the MetroWest Daily News. An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals.

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University of Utah Cited by Dept. of Agriculture

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APRIL 23, 2010

They received citations for animal welfare infractions, although apparently few of these infractions overlap with PETA claims from an undercover investigation. From the Deseret News. Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA. You decide.

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Kansas University Tries to Correct Welfare Violations

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

Kansas University Medical Center was nailed by USDA inspectors for violations including improper treatment for sick animals, aging facilities and failing to provide appropriate enrichment opportunities for animals who appear to be under psychological stress. Tags: animal research.

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Good News for the Alamagordo Chimps!

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DECEMBER 31, 2010

The NIH proposed sending them to Texas to be used in research aimed at finding a hepatitis C vaccine. Animal welfare activists protested the transfer. Richardson spokeswoman Alarie Ray-Garcia says that's expected to postpone the transfer for about two years. A federal contract covering the chimps expires next year.

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Physicians Committee Accuses University of Washington of Cruelty to Ferrets

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I live in Seattle and I am always skeptical of how the UW treats its lab animals. I had never heard of the use of ferrets in medical research though. News to me. The UW has been cited in the past for deficiencies in animal research, including allowing a monkey to starve in 2009. Full story in the Seattle Times.

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Uncovered Reports Show Three Research Labs Fined for Violations

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JUNE 20, 2009

Here's the Honor Roll from Fox News. Thanks to Stop Animal Exploitation Now! Tags: university research animal research welfare violations medical research animal laboratories. These entities were all cited for violations by the USDA. for finding them. 1) BioReliance Corp.,

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Komen and KFC: A Match Made in Hell

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MAY 17, 2010

Aside from their support of animal research, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. for cancer research. It's not just a question of animal rights. Tags: animal research Stupid KFC farm animal welfare susan g. Komen Foundation.

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Thousands Offered for Primate Freedom

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APRIL 22, 2010

An animal rights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.

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USDA Investigating Clemson University

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MAY 15, 2009

The investigation is related to the Animal Welfare Act and Clemson's research activities, but no details are available at this time. Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research USDA medical research.

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Charles River Labs Continues Expanding

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APRIL 27, 2010

The USDA here may be sadly wanting in its animal welfare oversight, but it is heaven compared to the vaccuum in China. Lord only knows what horrors researchers can commit over there with no accountability. Tags: Charles River Laboratories animal research china.

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Humane Society Cites Abuses at University of Minnesota

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MARCH 19, 2010

Department of Agriculture's online inspection reports and documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Institutes of Health's Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare. The public doesn't want animals to suffer gratuitously in research laboratories," said Martin Stephens, Ph.D.,

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Leona Helmsley's Fortune Goes to Medical Research

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APRIL 23, 2009

Over $100 million went to medical research while about $1 million went to animal welfare causes. Actually, less than $1 million dollars went to animal welfare because a portion went to guide dog associations and that is human welfare as far as I’m concerned.) It’s more money for medical research.

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New Iberia Inspection Documents Available

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MARCH 27, 2009

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Research Animals Rescued from North Carolina Lab

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a North Carolina animal testing facility that closed its doors after an undercover investigation revealed apparent abuse of the animals by workers at the facility.

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Wisconsin-Madison Cleared by USDA

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JANUARY 26, 2010

The University of Wisconsin-Madison was cleared of animal welfare violations in a report released yesterday. Tags: animal research animal laboratories wisconsin. It had twenty violations back in December 2009. Of course they passed the January inspection.

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Millions of Animals Used in EU Experiments

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MAY 15, 2009

This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animal research. My personal philosophy is that millions of animals shouldn't suffer on anyone's behalf, especially when they do so against their will.

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British Center Working On Animal Replacement in Research?

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APRIL 4, 2009

The group is called NC3E (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research). The Centre funds high-quality 3Rs research, organises workshops and symposia to disseminate and advance the 3Rs, and develops 3Rs information resources and guidelines.

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European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research

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JUNE 4, 2009

Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers. Tags: europe animal research medical research.

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Our Strange Relationship with Animals

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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SAEN Files Complaints Against University of Washington Again

Critter News

MAY 2, 2012

Department of Agriculture, which regulates the care of research animals, will look into the complaint, said agency spokesman David Sacks. It’s too early to say whether any of the incidents violate the Animal Welfare Act, the yardstick for triggering enforcement action, he added.

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Another Research Company Accused of Animal Mistreatment

Critter News

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Animal welfare watchdog group, Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), has released documents which, it claims, provide evidence that CRO MPI Research has been operating in violation of the US Animal Welfare Act. For the full story, go here to outsourcing-pharma.com.

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Air Canada Feeling Pressure to Stop Shipping Lab Monkeys

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AUGUST 17, 2011

In our opinion, Air Canada is not legally obligated to accept monkeys as cargo," said the opinion written by Lawyers for Animal Welfare. According to a legal opinion solicited by the Humane Society International Canada, Air Canada can set and amend the terms of its tariffs. "In

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Animal Testing Debate Continues in New South Wales

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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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EU Bans Use of Great Apes in Animal Research

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Europe banned the use of great apes in animal testing Wednesday as part of drastically tightened rules to scale back the number of animals used in scientific research. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.". Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates.

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Animal Welfare Concerns May Be Influencing UK Animal Research

Yale Animal Researchers Complain About Paperwork

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Sri Lanka Attempts to Establish Animal Research Guidelines

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Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories

Key AETA Supporter Suspended Over Animal Welfare

Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting

University of Utah Cited by Dept. of Agriculture

Kansas University Tries to Correct Welfare Violations

Good News for the Alamagordo Chimps!

Physicians Committee Accuses University of Washington of Cruelty to Ferrets

Uncovered Reports Show Three Research Labs Fined for Violations

Komen and KFC: A Match Made in Hell

Thousands Offered for Primate Freedom

USDA Investigating Clemson University

Charles River Labs Continues Expanding

Humane Society Cites Abuses at University of Minnesota

Leona Helmsley's Fortune Goes to Medical Research

New Iberia Inspection Documents Available

Research Animals Rescued from North Carolina Lab

Wisconsin-Madison Cleared by USDA

Millions of Animals Used in EU Experiments

British Center Working On Animal Replacement in Research?

European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research

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SAEN Files Complaints Against University of Washington Again

Another Research Company Accused of Animal Mistreatment

Air Canada Feeling Pressure to Stop Shipping Lab Monkeys

Animal Testing Debate Continues in New South Wales

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