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PETA Busts University of Utah Research Lab

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s vice president for research. In one case, up to 17 kittens from three litters died or were euthanized -- with no experiment data generated -- after injections to induce hydrocephalus. Tags: universities animal research utah undercover investigation PETA. Per the Salt Lake Tribune, these are some of the allegations.

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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center

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In December, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a warning letter to the primate center for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which regulates treatment of many commercial animals from pet kittens to laboratory guinea pigs. And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response.

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Activists Continue to Target UC Animal Researchers

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California recently passed a law protecting animal researchers from animal activists. Ralph Freeman has killed cats and kittens in his laboratory at UC Berkeley with no benefit for humans for over twenty years. Tags: academic research ALF. In the short term at least, it's not working. This law changes NOTHING.

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University of Utah Cited by Dept. of Agriculture

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Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA. They received citations for animal welfare infractions, although apparently few of these infractions overlap with PETA claims from an undercover investigation. You decide. From the Deseret News.

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On Charles and Project Treadstone

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The vet did give me a hard time about the dogs' animal-free diets (my traditional vets don't, ironically), and my response was that unless she could show me some research that his particular type of injury needs animal protein to heal, I wasn't going to change anything. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. been there. My poor boy.