Critter News

AUGUST 10, 2009

Big pharma is also involved in promoting animal research for its own benefit. It claims that it must research on animals in order to save people, but then charges such high costs for drugs to these same people that many, even in the rich country of the US, must forego them and risk their lives.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Dutch researchers carried out 592,665 experiments on animals last year, a 2.5% The increase was largely due to new EU rules on chemical compounds, which have led to an increase in testing on rats, the inspectors said. Tags: animal research Netherlands. increase on 2008, government inspectors said on Friday.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

The EU's executive Commission last year proposed a range of measures to improve the welfare of the 12 million vertebrate animals used in experiments each year, mostly mice and rats. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers. Tags: europe animal research medical research.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I recently fostered the sweetest little rat and I currently have two mice. And, of course, our old friend, Charles River Laboratories, will be a major supplier of lab rats. While both rats and mice have similarities to humans, rats win out in key areas. Therefore, this Boston Globe article saddens me on both levels.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. But see the qualifications in the article.The animal research has offered one explanation for the rising number of babies born with these conditions. However, it involved exposing rats to chemicals at levels that humans are usually not exposed to.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

And let's not forget the required sanctimonious quote from an animal researcher “Our primates are essential partners in medical progress, as are mice, rats, guinea pigs and opossums. Tags: primates medical research. Oh brother.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

You can buy some extra time by presoaking the animal in a basin of ice water.)" For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. Part III: Pepper Goes to Washington.

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