Articles in Nature ("Activists ground primate flights" and "Lab animal flights squeezed") and other publications have reported on campaigns by animal rights activists to convince airlines to cease transporting animals for research. Although these groups heralded their victories to supporters, an analysis of the facts indicates that the current animal transportation policies of passenger airlines … Continue reading Addressing the crisis in transporting research animals
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Italian Researchers Threatened by Extremists
Italian research is in danger. Not only because of those seeking to twist the new EU Directive 60/3010/EU to their own agenda, but also because of a rise in extremism directed at the researchers themselves. Most recently, posters have appeared on the streets of Milan targeting specific scientists. It would appear that animal rights groups … Continue reading Italian Researchers Threatened by Extremists
Luke Steele: Profile of a Convicted Animal Rights Activist
The Anti-Vivisection Coalition (AVC), formed in August 2013, has been getting some press recently, campaigning against medical research at Cambridge University and Newcastle University. But in fact the "coalition" is little more than a one-man operation run by Luke Steele, twice imprisoned for attacks on laboratories and harassment and intimidation of lab workers. Steele began … Continue reading Luke Steele: Profile of a Convicted Animal Rights Activist
Italians rally behind ill girl threatened by animal rights extremists: #Iostoconcaterina
2013 was a tough year for science in Italy, witnessing the theft by animal rights extremists of animals from a medical research laboratory in Milan and the passing by the Italian Parliament of a law that threatens the future of medical research in Italy. But it has also been the year when scientists in Italy … Continue reading Italians rally behind ill girl threatened by animal rights extremists: #Iostoconcaterina
Conversation Starter? PETA’s Bus Ads on University of Wisconsin Hearing Research
As predicted, PETA’s ongoing campaign against scientific research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison continues, escalating this week with a striking advertisement on 100 Metro buses. The ad calls for an end to UW research aimed at better understanding how the brain processes sound. A central question is how sound arriving at both ears is combined … Continue reading Conversation Starter? PETA’s Bus Ads on University of Wisconsin Hearing Research
Primate Report sees through Misleading Claims of Animal Rights Groups
On 28th November 2013, the UK Animal Procedures Committee (APC) released its latest report entitled “Review of the assessment of cumulative severity and lifetime experience in non-human primates used in neuroscience”. The report, by the APC’s Primate Subcomittee, was chaired by Prof John Pickard, Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Cambridge University. This comprehensive … Continue reading Primate Report sees through Misleading Claims of Animal Rights Groups
Who should be part of the animal research debate?
Note: The following is an invited post by Prof. Eric Sandgren, Associate Professor of Experimental Pathology in the School of Veterinary Medicine, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The views expressed below are his own and do not necessarily represent that of his employer. In late October, Professor Dario Ringach of UCLA visited … Continue reading Who should be part of the animal research debate?
Jerry the Beagle and the “Liberation” that Wasn’t
On Monday, Nov. 4, Jerry, a six-month old beagle allegedly "rescued from a laboratory" at UC Davis, gamboled on the grass outside California's state capitol as news cameras looked on. But campus veterinarian, Vic Lukas, was puzzled. He wasn’t aware of an animal being "rescued." More concerning, one of the people in the photos with … Continue reading Jerry the Beagle and the “Liberation” that Wasn’t
Speaking of Research 