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When
Medicines Ill-serve the Public
Tom Regan, Raleigh News Observer, commentary
— December 2004
A
comparatively small staff (approximately 100) is responsible
for monitoring the 3,200 drugs currently available
at the local drug store. Total costs for monitoring
and evaluation represent only 4 percent of the FDA's
annual budget...
Of
Mice, Men and In-Between
Rick Weiss, Washington Post, feature — November
2004
These
are not outcasts from "The Island of Dr. Moreau," the
1896 novel by H.G. Wells in which a rogue doctor develops
creatures that are part animal and part human. They
are real creations of real scientists, stretching the
boundaries of stem cell research...
Scientists
Study Genes for Tastier Turkeys
Washington Times, feature — November
2004
Surmounting
the sex problem poses a bigger challenge. Because
the toms' breasts are so big, female turkeys need
to be artificially inseminated. Identifying sex genes
vital to reproduction would be a start, researchers
say...
Anti-Animal
Testing Group Optimistic for Bush Second Term
Ray Greek MD, commentary — November
2004
I
predict the following: pharmacogenetics will be implemented
by the FDA; pharmaceutical companies will ask the
FDA to remove the animal testing requirements because
they are ineffective and expensive; and through enacting
tort reform, all the pieces will coalesce for the
removal of animal testing in drug development...
Non-animal
Research is Best Way to Keep Christopher Reeve's Dream
Alive
Neal Barnard, MD, commentary — October 2004
What
will it actually take to improve the lives and physical
conditions of people suffering from spinal cord injuries? That
question is especially urgent in light of the Christopher
Reeve Paralysis Act, a $300 million piece of legislation
now before Congress. This bill includes some useful provisions.
Unfortunately, it also allocates significant new funding
to one of the least promising lines of spinal cord injury
research-experiments on animals...
Campus
Cruelty
Heather Moore, Impact Press, feature
— October-November 2004
The
amount of funding a professor brings to a university
and the number of papers he or she publishes, no
matter how frivolous or irrelevant, influences whether
he or she becomes a full professor and receives tenure.
But often the professors' success and the students'
so-called education come at the expense of countless
animals...
New
Survey Among Doctors Suggests Shift in Attitude Regarding
Scientific Worth of Animal Testing
Ray Greek MD, survey — September 2004
The
poll, conducted in August of 2004, revealed a significant change in attitude
on the part of practicing physicians toward the traditional medical community's
reliance and trust in the efficacy of animal testing...
Dr.
Jerry Vlasik — 2004 UK Animal Rights
Gathering
Speech — September
2004
Our
movement cannot be isolated in a vacuum. The animal
rights movement has got to be viewed in a historical
context. Our movement is no less important or radical
than the fight against Apartheid or the fight against
human slavery, fights against oppression in Algeria,
Vietnam, Northern Ireland and other places all around
the world...
They
Have No Hope But Us:
The Tsunami of Suffering of Animals in Labs
Michael Budkie, Stop Animal Exploitation Now! (SAEN),
investigation — 2004
The
psychological torture of isolation is interrupted
only by the trauma of human handling, and the experience
of becoming an unwilling victim in an experiment...We
are not supposed to know that research facilities are places
of intense suffering...
Don't
Walk on Slugs and Snails:
We Should be Revolted that Animal Experimentations
are Necessary
Ray Hattersley, The Guardian, commentary
— August 2004
But
opposition to the way in which some "animal liberationists" behave
and a willingness to make them respect the law should
not obscure a basic truth about their cause. Experimenting
on living animals — although sometimes necessary — is
an activity that a civilized nation should find distasteful...
Pound
Seizure Strategies
Judith Marie Gansen, Animals
In Print, strategies — 2004
This
article does not have a happy ending — we
lost our pound seizure fight. The
sad thing is we lost even though
we presented overwhelming evidence,
research, testimony and reasons why
pound seizure should be stopped...We
have decided we are not giving up...
Where
is the Evidence that Animal Research Benefits Humans?
British Medical Journal, investigation
— February 2004
Clinicians
and the public often consider it axiomatic that animal
research has contributed to the treatment of human
disease, yet little evidence is available to support
this view...We argue that systematic reviews of existing and
future research are needed...
Double
Speak — What Researchers Say Isn't Always What
They Do...
Michael Budkie, SAEN, investigation — 2004
Anesthesia
is supposed to be used in experimentation that is painful, but anesthesia can
be omitted if its use would interfere with the experiment. Animals are not
supposed to be subjected to multiple survival surgeries,
unless the experiment requires it...
Cat
Madness: Human Resesarch Using Cats
Crystal Spiegel, American Anti-Vivisection
Society, investigation — Winter 2003
Of
course, researchers do not use animals whose
spinal cords have been damaged accidentally;
they actually induce trauma to the spinal cords
of healthy cats...
When
Challenged, Vivisectors Couldn't Name One Patient Whose
Life Had Been Saved by Animal Experiments
Vernon Coleman, essay — 2003
The
challenge was widely publicised and was very simple. I
challenged vivisectors — and those who support vivisection — to
find ONE patient whose life had been saved as a direct
result of animal experimentation — and whom they
could prove would now be dead if it had not been for animal
experiments. They
couldn't...
Monkey
Testes Grafted on Mice Produce Fertile Sperm
Science Blog,
report — February 2004
The
research team believes that this method could be used
to preserve genetic material from endangered nonhuman
primates that might die before reproducing. They warn,
however, that ethical and safety issues will need to
be resolved before work on this method proceeds to
the production of human sperm for assisted fertilization...
Remember
Jerom
Rachel Weiss, Laboatory Primate
Advocacy Group, essay — 2004
Jerom
was a teenager when he died eight years ago today.
He was alone and scared for many months. He was
afraid of humans and he wasn’t allowed contact
with other chimpanzees. When he died, he hadn’t
seen the sun in at least six years...
Poisoning
for Profit
British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection,
investigation — 2003
This shocking investigation
reveals the full in-depth horror of life in the monkey
labs at contract testers Covance in Germany...
The
Animal Research I Can't Defend
James Meek, The Guardian, commentary
— May
2002
The
prospect of roborats is a glorious opportunity for
scientists who carry out serious medical experiments
on animals to stand up and try to put some ethical
distance between what they do and animal work related
to the military, or to abstract scientific curiosity...
Got
Silk?
Lawrence Osborne, New York Times, feature — June
2002
This
is a so-called “transgenic farm” — a
place where animal species are either cloned or genetically
mixed to create medically useful substances — owned
and run by a firm named Nexia Biotechnologies...
Of
Monkeys and Men:
Focus on Primate Research and Vivisection
Animals Voice, feature — 2001
Though the incompleteness of USDA reporting
leaves us without truly exact numbers, a safe estimate would put the annual experimental
toll for primates at 60,000 a year in the United States alone, with potentially
another 10,000 primates kept in laboratories for breeding and conditioning...
Pain
in Animals and Humans: A Question of Pain in Invertebrates
Jane A. Smith, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, investigation — 1991
Although pain might seem less likely in
the more "simple" invertebrates, than in
the most "complex" invertebrates, such as
the cephalopod mollusks, this certainly does not mean
that the more "simple" invertebrates ought
not to be afforded respect...
Pound
Seizure FAQ
Ban Pound Seizure, essay
Common sense indicates that the most desirable
animals for research or educational purposes would
be healthy, well-behaved, and well-mannered. These
are the same qualities that deem an animal ‘adoptable"...
The
Harms to Humans from Animal Experimentation
Americans for Medical Advancement, article
Not
only does it divert limited resources away from valid
science, but by delaying innovation, therapies and
cures, it prolongs suffering and increases mortality.
Fallacious data regarding medications, garnered through
animal experimentation, leads to injury and death...
What
We Did to Rodney
Peter M. Henrikson, DVM, Mansfield New-Journal, commentary
I was in my third year of veterinary school
and he came from the local dog pound. For the next
quarter, four of us students would practice surgery
techniques on him — the first of our small
animal surgery training...
Rags
Edmund Vance Cooke, poem
One
day they took us budding M.D.s / To one of those
institutes / Where they demonstrate every new disease / By
means of bisected brutes...
Starving
and Full
Kate Dunayer, poem
/ as
the half-dead live animal's head is bashed again / by
a machine specially designed to simulate / a
windshield, the pavement, a wall, hit full force...
The Blood of Innocence
Laura Moretti, essay
An ethnic group in Senegal practices a seemingly unusual ritual to heal mental illness. Though they appear to be civilized — they drive cars, wear glasses, read and write — I can’t help but feel the entire community, not just the patients, are in need of serious help...
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