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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

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While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. Despite that, a Quebec-based seal fur company has begun championing Pibarot's hypothesis, seeing the research as a buoy for Canada's beleaguered seal harvest.

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UK Records Increase in Animal Testing

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The increase marks the greatest leap in animal use in medical research since 1986, when the government introduced new auditing procedures. Substantial numbers of animals are used to test the safety of new drugs before they are allowed to be used in human trials.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.1

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But universities and scientists are not always there working for pure learning or the improvement of humanity. Until then, taxpayer-financed discoveries were in the public domain, available to any company that wanted to use them. There may be a business component there as well.

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Malaysian Firm to Establish New Animal Testing Facility

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The stupid project is in partnership with a French pharmaceutical company. But of course, the argument will be that the project is economic development, jobs and "for the good of humanity.". Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia. Fortunately, there are Malaysian activists opposing it.

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Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories

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I don't believe they are working for human welfare. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. She is a data tech for a clinical testing company (for profit by the way.) All of this BS by medical researchers must be challenged. I'm sorry, but I am not moved.

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Rats Taking Over from Mice in Labs

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Scientific advances over the last three years have now made it feasible to easily tinker with rat genes, creating the possibility of far better models of certain human diseases, and potentially shortening the time it takes to develop medications. While both rats and mice have similarities to humans, rats win out in key areas.

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

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In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. This adorable poster that draws you in to the sweet faces of these animals basically proclaims that it is a good thing to use their bodies for medical research, which almost always leads to pain and death. It was a jarring moment.