Critter News
NOVEMBER 10, 2008
Their is a proposal to ban testing on apes in the EU. But some animal welfare groups and researchers accused the European Union of masking weak regulation with empty gestures, as no great apes have been used in EU research for six years. Tags: europe apes. Is this a solution to a problem that doesn't exist?
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. Tags: europe animal research medical research. Oh, but if you actually FEEL something, you might actually THINK about what you are doing.
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Animal Person
MARCH 23, 2009
Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? He also notes that evidence that welfarism is misguided is that even the sealers are for it. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. which includes a poll. There is an elephant who deperately needs our help.
Critter News
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. Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates. From the AFP. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.".
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