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European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research

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Drug industry group EFPIA said the parliament had managed to balance the protection of animals, the reality of biomedical research, and the needs of patients. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers. Tags: europe animal research medical research.

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Support the Great Ape Protection Act

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Tags: chimpanzees animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty medical research. End the use of chimpanzees in animal experiments. It's unconscionable.

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Elizabeth Kucinich and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

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She's the new Director of Public Affairs and she's already started lobbying for the Great Ape Protection Act, which would phase out invasive medical research on chimpanzees. Tags: chimpanzees activism apes medical research us. For you international readers, she's Dennis Kucinich's wife.

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. states and jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting animals. The sweeping set of reforms provided for in Act 154 (P S.

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Atttorney's File Motion to Dismiss Charges Against AETA 4

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These activities are protected by the First Amendment. Tags: animal experimentation AETA 4. I have to say, this is pretty lame. Blowing things up or burning down buildings is one thing, but writing things on the sidewalk?

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.