Local Activist Takes On KU Med Center: KU Med Lies, Abuses Animals, and Shreds the Constitution…

With respect to the University of Kansas Medical Center’s statement in the KCTV 5 news clip, “Center officials said they have fixed the problems, but none of the issues dealt with animal welfare,” it is an utter fabrication. The University of Kansas Medical Center has blatently lied to the media and to the public (who [...]

Animal rights groups face off with scientists over fate of chimps

Ever since the first of their number arrived in New Mexico half a century ago as test subjects in the fledgling U.S. space program, nearly 200 government-owned chimpanzees were routinely injected with viruses and used to test everything from experimental vaccines to insecticides. They have enjoyed a decade-long respite from research at an indoor-outdoor habitat [...]

PETA urges probe in use of animals in University of Michigan nurse training

Critics are blasting the University of Michigan for a course that teaches students to save human lives but uses animals to train them. On Tuesday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and asked for an investigation into U-M’s Survival Flight course, which teaches future [...]

PETA says video shows cat, dog abuse at NC lab

An animal-welfare group believes workers at a North Carolina research lab abused dogs, cats and rabbits, and the activists released what they said was undercover video of caretakers handling the animals violently…

Denver firm hit by PETA for cruelty to hamsters

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is sometimes more known for their publicity gimmicks to call attention to animal cruelty, but Tuesday the group hit hard…

UK-funded animal testing in Malaysia not unethical

Malaysia will not shut down a controversial British-funded animal testing lab after investigations showed that the animals were not exposed to torture…

Prosecutor to consider charges in UW sheep deaths

A judge appointed a special prosecutor Wednesday to weigh animal cruelty charges against nine University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and officials responsible for experiments that killed sheep…

PETA urges college to stop live calf embalming

Animal rights organization PETA urged the Bombay Veterinary College (BVC) in Parel to stop the proposed killing and embalming of a calf scheduled for Tuesday as part of its course syllabus…

Ecstasy over Spanish cloned calf

Against the protests of animal rights activists, the Spanish bullfighting enthusiasts may have the opportunity to see their legendary fighting bulls getting killed over and over again…

MoD blew up 119 live pigs in explosive tests

The research took place at the Government’s secret military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, between 2006 and 2009. Official figures reveal 25 pigs were used in improvised explosive device experiments in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009. The animals are anaesthetised before the explosions…

Feds ID 9 problems at University of Utah labs

Researchers at the University of Utah don’t always follow protocols when it comes to the welfare of its laboratory animals, according to federal inspectors…

Animal Rights Group Seeks Charges Against UW Researchers

An animal rights group is working to reopen a case and bring criminal charges against a group of University of Wisconsin researchers. At a hearing Thursday, the Alliance For Animals argued that Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard refused to file criminal charges in connection with the killing of three research goats in a compression [...]

Animal activist group angry over research monkey deaths

In 2009, a monkey died when it was sent through a washer that was at a scalding temperature, while still in the cage, and in 2008, workers at a research lab in Nevada found 30 of their monkeys virtually cooked to death after someone left a heater on in the lab…

UW-Madison suspends researcher over animal welfare problems

UW-Madison suspended a professor who studies Parkinson’s and other brain diseases from working with animals last year, a rare move prompted by what officials called a “clear pattern” of problems with animal welfare, according to university records released this week…

Animal rights activist using FOI laws to target universities

A convicted animal rights activist is using freedom of information laws to force universities to reveal details of their animal experiments, raising fears that scientists involved could suffer renewed intimidation…

Animal-rights group says SVSU experiments needlessly harm rats, waste taxpayer money

A national animal-rights organization accuses Saginaw Valley State University of “squandering taxpayers’ money” by awarding a $10,000 grant to a student for experiments that are needlessly harming rats while researching a chemical already proven not to harm humans except in extremely high doses…

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