Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Europe banned the use of great apes in animal testing Wednesday as part of drastically tightened rules to scale back the number of animals used in scientific research. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.". Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates.

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

states and jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting animals. The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation. The sweeping set of reforms provided for in Act 154 (P S.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time. Our findings follow many other studies demonstrating mental anguish in traumatized animals.

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