Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Here's the final paragraph of the piece, which I'm sure you'll have some thoughts about: Pepper's journey in the summer of 1965 helped start a national media sensation and a broad panic over the theft of pets for biomedical research. Was what followed animal protection or pet protection, as pets are the animals who really matter?

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Drug industry group EFPIA said the parliament had managed to balance the protection of animals, the reality of biomedical research, and the needs of patients. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers. They have no qualms about what they do.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

He writes, "The dog remained a vital tool in biomedical research for more than 300 years and was the vehicle for a remarkable run of medical breakthroughs.". To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act."

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