Critter News

MARCH 14, 2010

Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 17-24) exposes their plight and the broken federal research funding system that perpetuates outdated animal experiments at the expense of modern and more humane technologies.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Here's a site for kids to program them to become "the next generation of laboratory animal science professionals." the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Foundation. Experimenting on animals is fun and it helps everyone.even animals! It's sponsored by (surprise!)

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? How many of them actually see these animals in the labs? Tags: animal experimentation UK europe research alternatives medical research. They are too disturbed, frightened, or threatened to do so.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.).

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JUNE 9, 2009

Animal Person points out this comment made by Daniel Engber, the author. Actually, I didn't quit neuroscience as a result of the experiences described, but I did quit working with animals. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. Bring on the PETA hotties!

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Critter News

MAY 11, 2009

Others say that emotion is the only way to move humans to care about anything other than themselves. But in my experience, it usually backfires, particularly with men. Tags: animal rights advocacy. I'm really torn. I think you have to take a little of A and a little of B. I can pack an emotional punch as well.

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JUNE 16, 2010

From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6 If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.

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JULY 20, 2009

Do not be fooled into thinking scientists are using animals unnecessarily for perverse reasons. There is only one alternative to testing drugs on animals: testing them on humans. That's why I truly wish someone would explain to me to me why humans are so unique and of such higher value than anything else. How about this?

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MARCH 7, 2009

And researching the company she works for makes me wonder whether the clinical trials she sells actually include animal experiments. These are core issues to me that are an integral part to who I am as a human being. Tags: animal research. I am a hypocrite to my beliefs by associating with her. but not with this.

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