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Quote of the Week

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Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures. -- Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Key AETA Supporter Suspended Over Animal Welfare

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According to the Wisconsin State Journal: University administrators say researcher Michele Basso has had a bumpy history, citing a lack of respect for veterinarians, incomplete record-keeping and instances where monkeys developed brain injuries… It is unusual for the university to suspend a main researcher’s work with animals, and officials say they (..)