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Critter News
APRIL 4, 2009
They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy. The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. Tags: animal experimentation medical research. This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week.
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2009
One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's] Tags: ethics animal rights medical research.
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Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director.
Critter News
JUNE 5, 2009
Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.
Critter News
MAY 2, 2012
An animal-rights group that watchdogs research facilities across the country has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, citing multiple incidents in which animals were injured, escaped from their cages or were found dead. From the normantranscript.com.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 16, 2007
To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. This follows from everything said in the text about the rights of animals. This does not mean that animals may never be deliberately harmed or become subjects of research. Animals cannot give consent.
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