This post is simulposted with the Unlikely Activist blog, run by this post's author, David Jentsch. Fanatical animal rights groups in the US love attention-getting stunts. PeTA creates video games extolling violence and propagates advertisements that exude adolescent sexuality. White Coat Waste uses Tea party rhetoric to insist federal investment in research is tantamount to borrowing money from … Continue reading Animal rights fanatics offer stunts, not real solutions
Category: Animal Rights News
ALF Claims Responsibility for CALAS National Office Vandalism
On Tuesday, July 15, an act of vandalism occurred near the Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science National Office in Toronto, ON. There were no injuries and a police investigation is ongoing. The extremist website Bite Back published an unsigned communique: "On July 14, 2014, in Toronto, the Animal Liberation Front injected butyric acid into … Continue reading ALF Claims Responsibility for CALAS National Office Vandalism
Undermining a cornerstone of medical research – examining a biased commentary on animal studies
Medical sociologist, Pandora Pound, and epidemiologist, Michael Bracken, recently wrote an opinion piece entitled "Is animal research sufficiently evidence based to be a cornerstone of biomedical research?" for the British Medical Journal. The article was chosen as the editor’s choice, leading to an editorial by the editor in chief, Fiona Godlee. Pound and Bracken criticise … Continue reading Undermining a cornerstone of medical research – examining a biased commentary on animal studies
The BUAV – Unsubstantiated Claims, Spies and Videotapes
The BUAV have infiltrated several UK animal laboratories in 2013, however the video footage they have sent to newspapers has shown important scientific research done carefully and with animal welfare in mind.
More dishonesty about animal research from the Daily Mirror
Today the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mirror published a truly execrable piece of animal rights propaganda dressed up as journalism, in an article attacking neuroscience research undertaken using cats at University College London. The article mischaracterized the two research projects, which were published in the Journal of Neurophysiology in 2012 and 2013, from … Continue reading More dishonesty about animal research from the Daily Mirror
Voice Your Support for Animal Transport
Air France are one of the few airlines willing to transport animals for medical research. Please support them by signing the petition.
Pictures in need of accurate words: University of Florida animal photos
Pictures from labs are often used out of context to criticise animal research - make you sure your pictures keep their context
What do Aliens, ADRs and Animal Tests have in common?
Many activists believe climate change scientists but not animal researchers. What is behind support and mistrust of science?
Speaking of Research 