Yale Animal Researchers Complain About Paperwork
Critter News
MARCH 4, 2010
Yale animal researchers complain that all these darn regulations for animal welfare are creating too much paperwork. Tags: Yale animal research. insert crying baby here).
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Critter News
MARCH 4, 2010
Yale animal researchers complain that all these darn regulations for animal welfare are creating too much paperwork. Tags: Yale animal research. insert crying baby here).
Critter News
MAY 8, 2010
Michelle Basso was a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who worked with primates. From Current.com She was recently suspended from working with animals, a “rare move prompted by what officials called a ‘clear pattern’ of problems with animal welfare.” Now, she's been suspended from working with animals.
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Critter News
APRIL 23, 2009
Over $100 million went to medical research while about $1 million went to animal welfare causes. Actually, less than $1 million dollars went to animal welfare because a portion went to guide dog associations and that is human welfare as far as I’m concerned.) It’s more money for medical research. To human causes.
Critter News
OCTOBER 21, 2010
An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
Quick work on the part of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), in partnership with the Humane Society of the U.S. Tags: animal abuse animal research cats North Carolina dogs PETA.
Critter News
APRIL 13, 2009
How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition. This is really interesting. I certainly didn't.
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. Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.".
Critter News
JANUARY 19, 2009
This year, the European Commission will issue a research contract, worth up to €1 million for a study into alternatives to the castration of pigs and dehorning of cattle. Tags: europe pigs farm animal welfare.
Critter News
MARCH 15, 2009
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.
Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2009
The National Animal Interest Alliance is an association of business, agricultural, scientific, and recreational interests dedicated to promoting animal welfare, supporting responsible animal use and strengthening the bond between humans and animals. Tags: corporate lies. Clever bastards.
Critter News
JANUARY 25, 2010
Last Monday (January 18, 2010), this country reached a milestone with regard to animal research when a booklet on the ‘Guidelines for Ethics Review of Research Proposals Involving Animals in Sri Lanka’, was launched at a simple ceremony held at the Colombo Medical Faculty presided over by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof.
Critter News
OCTOBER 12, 2009
I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I don't believe they are working for human welfare. I would never advocate violence against a researcher. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. I'm sorry, but I am not moved.
Critter News
APRIL 4, 2009
The group is called NC3E (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research). The Centre funds high-quality 3Rs research, organises workshops and symposia to disseminate and advance the 3Rs, and develops 3Rs information resources and guidelines.
Critter News
JUNE 20, 2009
Tags: university research animal research welfare violations medical research animal laboratories. .: A 2006 USDA inspection report faulted the school for withholding anesthesia from piglets and lambs during procedures without adequate scientific justification for doing so.
Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers.
Animal Person
JUNE 2, 2009
Daniel Engber, senior editor at Slate , has posted the first of a five-part series about animals used for research. A Dalmatian, stolen and sold for research, she was likely terrified and probably in enormous pain when she was killed, a couple of weeks after she was taken. Tags: Economics Ethics. Stay tuned.
Critter News
DECEMBER 22, 2009
Tags: animal research. Kansas University Medical Center was nailed by USDA inspectors for violations including improper treatment for sick animals, aging facilities and failing to provide appropriate enrichment opportunities for animals who appear to be under psychological stress.
Critter News
OCTOBER 18, 2010
It's bad enough having to deal with the welfare of normal farm animals, but what about the welfare of cloned animals? If they are cloned solely for the products they provide, will it be more difficult to argue for their welfare as living creatures? Tags: europe cloning farm animal welfare. From the Daily Mail.
Critter News
JUNE 28, 2009
Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness. The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 In South Carolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually. Changing production conditions are bound to affect the bottom the line.
Critter News
MAY 15, 2009
The investigation is related to the Animal Welfare Act and Clemson's research activities, but no details are available at this time. Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research USDA medical research.
Critter News
MAY 17, 2010
Aside from their support of animal research, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. for cancer research. The more fattening food you eat, the more money goes to cancer research. Tags: animal research Stupid KFC farm animal welfare susan g.
Critter News
APRIL 22, 2010
An animal rights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.
Critter News
APRIL 27, 2010
Now, they are continuing their plans to grow into a significant drug research company by acquiring WuXi AppTec Co, a Chinese pharmaceutical contractor. The USDA here may be sadly wanting in its animal welfare oversight, but it is heaven compared to the vaccuum in China. I'm not surprised Charles River wants to move into China.
Critter News
MARCH 15, 2009
He is the assistant vice president for research communications in the Office of University Relations. Tags: chimpanzees medical research animal welfare. Here's his post about it.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.
Critter News
MARCH 27, 2009
Tags: louisiana animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty new iberia research center animal welfare us. . # A 2006 inspection found no problems. USDA inspections dated July 19, 2005 and Dec. 7, 2004, found numerous problems.
Critter News
JUNE 29, 2010
Citing research showing that feeding antibiotics to animals on factory farms in order to promote growth "is not in the interest of protecting or promoting public health," the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recommending that farmers stop routinely mixing antibiotics into animal feed. From Opposing Views.com.
Critter News
JANUARY 24, 2010
In this week's podcast ending January 26, 2010: **Animal rescue efforts are underway in disaster-stricken Haiti; **A research study involving the burial of live pigs is halted; **The blood sport of dogfighting enjoys a revival in Afghanistan; **And a report by animal welfare organizations criticize pig farming in the European Union.
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2010
Department of Agriculture's online inspection reports and documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Institutes of Health's Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare. The public doesn't want animals to suffer gratuitously in research laboratories," said Martin Stephens, Ph.D.,
Critter News
APRIL 24, 2009
We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animal welfare. Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness. Better conditions for animals hurt the bottom line. Here's an example.
Critter News
JULY 7, 2009
This particular animal research controversy is occurring in New South Wales (Australia). Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.
Critter News
APRIL 23, 2010
They received citations for animal welfare infractions, although apparently few of these infractions overlap with PETA claims from an undercover investigation. Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA. You decide. From the Deseret News.
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2010
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was cleared of animal welfare violations in a report released yesterday. Tags: animal research animal laboratories wisconsin. It had twenty violations back in December 2009. Of course they passed the January inspection. They had to do so after the December report or heads would probably roll.
Critter News
MAY 15, 2009
Around 12 million animals are used each year in the European Union (EU) for research purposes. This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animal research.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 10, 2008
But some animal welfare groups and researchers accused the European Union of masking weak regulation with empty gestures, as no great apes have been used in EU research for six years. Tags: europe apes.
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2009
One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. Tags: ethics animal rights medical research. I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals.
Critter News
MARCH 23, 2009
It was an "experiment" you see, even though they are just Animal Control, not a research facility. Clay County violated five federal animal welfare regulations in a in September 2008 experiment that involved putting a dog in a non-air-conditioned truck for an hour at midday, according to a U.S. Weather conditions were also similar.
4 The Love Of Animals
DECEMBER 16, 2009
The Found Animals Foundation ( www.foundanimals.org ) is a privately funded Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated to animal welfare issues and led by business and medical professionals. Tags: events. Event: Save a Stray for the Holidays originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on December 17, 2009.
Critter News
APRIL 7, 2010
Why change for welfare purposes if there is no clear economic benefit? Tags: australia sheep mulesing. Such an awful practice. But, as is typical with many large industries, there is a resistance to change unless there is a clear and immediate profit windfall. From the Sydney Morning Herald. From the Sydney Morning Herald.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
Thinking Pink for Pups: Dogtopia Pampers Dogs for Cancer Research. Dogs across the country will get primped and pampered in October, all in the name of breast cancer awareness and research. billion for breast cancer research, education and health services. Tags: events. is partnering with Susan G. About Dogtopia®.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Keeping primates as pets threatens public health and safety, as well as the welfare of the animals. 80 would not affect the transportation of animals for zoos and licensed research facilities. Tags: captivity exotic pets primates congress us. The Captive Primate Safety Act is bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 1, 2009
When researchers at Queen's University in Belfast daubed acetic acid on the antennae of 144 prawns, the animals reacted by vigorously rubbing and grooming the affected antenna for several minutes. Tags: lobsters animal rescue food. A study in New Scientist gives chefs who insist that crustaceans cannot feel pain "claws" for concern.
Critter News
DECEMBER 11, 2008
Elephants born in European zoos die at much younger ages than those bred in protected spaces, says a new study that's adding fuel to an already fractious debate over the welfare of the animals in captivity. Tags: zoos captivity elephants. And it didn't include data on poaching, a major threat to wild elephant populations.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.
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