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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.1

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I read the following in a book about the pharmaceutical industry by Marcia Angell (the first woman to serve as the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and currently a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School) called The Truth about the Drug Companies. It is about the Bayh-Dole Act and it has really stuck with me.

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Animal Researchers' Emotional Blackmail

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They want us to keep on funneling billions and billions of taxpayer dollars to the drug companies, the research universities and the suppliers of the animals and the animal testing equipment. Tags: animal research drug companies medical research. How stupid do they think we are?

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New Mexico Governor Opposes Chimp Transfer

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Bill Richardson is asking to tour a former medical research lab in southern New Mexico that houses more than 200 chimpanzees. with officials of the National Institutes of Health, which contracts with a private company to care for the chimps. Tags: chimpanzees animal research animal laboratories Texas new mexico. From the AP.

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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. Tags: animal experimentation UK drug companies medical research biotech.

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Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?

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They have drug companies that are just as powerful as those here. To enable this new approach to be developed, the European Commission and companies that are members of the EPAA are working hard to initiate novel methods of research and technology transfer that will reduce the need for animal testing. I just don't understand it.

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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. Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia. Fortunately, there are Malaysian activists opposing it. But of course, the argument will be that the project is economic development, jobs and "for the good of humanity.".

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Beagles Rescued from Bankrupt Lab

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One hundred and twenty beagles who faced lifetimes being used in medical research experiments have been freed — just in time for the Fourth of July weekend. Tags: animal research dogs Best Friends animal laboratories. a site for dog lovers. and Elmsford, N.Y.,

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