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Texas Tech Allowed to Withhold Info on Animal Testing

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The Texas Attorney General ruled earlier this month that the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center can withhold records of a committee that oversees the use of animals in training and research. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal rescue medical research.

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Animal Researchers' Emotional Blackmail

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It is all about convincing us that a cure for everything is just around the corner as long as we keep funding their animal research gravy train. They want us to keep on funneling billions and billions of taxpayer dollars to the drug companies, the research universities and the suppliers of the animals and the animal testing equipment.

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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center

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And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response. Tags: medical research PETA animal welfare us. The lab reported the incidents to the National Institutes of Health, said Jim Newman, a spokesman for Oregon Health & Science University, which runs the center.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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You could easily argue," he added, that the resources necessary to buy and train a new monkey would be a net minus for animal welfare. Wouldn't you at some point say: That's not right--we need to stop that immediately and put our money and energy into finding alternative ways of performing medical research.