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Rabbit sperm donors may be retired from service, but not rats, mice, & birds

January 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

And not most rabbits in laboratory use, either             WASHINGTON D.C.––Former Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler,  in one of his last actions before leaving office with the Donald Trump presidential administration,  “issued a January 20,  2021 directive instructing the agency to plan for the retirement of the last remaining rabbits in the EPA’s taxpayer-funded […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Other species, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Andrew Wheeler, Justin Goodman, Karen Budke, Katherine Roe, Larry Carbone, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budke, Natalie Warhit, Sue Leary

Breakthrough may scratch horses from the Iditarod legend

January 18, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Yes, horses! ANCHORAGE,  Alaska;  Braunschweig,  Germany–– A German immunologist, funded by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,  has reportedly made a scientific discovery that may scratch horses from the substance of the Iditarod serum run legend. Horses in the Iditarod Trail Race,  the 938-mile world’s most famous and most controversial dog sled race? Yes, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dog sledding, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Science, Sled dog racing, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Ed Rohn, Emil von Behring, Gunnar Kaasen, Kai Kupferschmidt, Leonhard Seppala, Mark Klempner, Merritt Clifton, Michael Hust

Why is Trump EPA chief cutting animal testing while the NRDC defends it?

November 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Natural Resources Defense Council has fought for 50 years to make EPA enforce chemical safety standards WASHINGTON D.C.––How has the Natural Resources Defense Council,  whose emblem is a polar bear,  become the front line of public defense of the animal testing industry? Why is Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler leading the most aggressive effort […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Mice & rats, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Al Gore, Alix Fano, Andrew Wheeler, Anthony Bellotti, James J. Delaney, Lorraine Twerdok, Merritt Clifton, Sherwin Gardner

Top GMO mouse lab closing; sponsor turns toward non-animal research

June 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

13-year-old, $38 million facility was British leader             HINXTON, U.K. —The Sanger Institute,  a global leader since 2006 in producing genetically modified mice for biomedical research use,  on May 16,  2019 announced to staff that it will close by 2022,  if not sooner. The impending closure is among the first […]

Filed Under: Alternatives, Cloning & xenografts, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Research & testing, Science Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Elias Zerhouni, Francis Collins, Holly Else, Justin Goodman, Katherine Roe, Mark M. Davis, Merritt Clifton, Mike Stratton, Mike Turner

“Best science” won’t protect “clean meat” from foes, warns vet of biotech wars

July 23, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Fear of science & change will be weapons for animal industries trying to save their rump roasts             CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––“Do not assume that doing the best science possible will insulate you from criticism,”  AquaBounty Technologies chief executive Ronald L. Stotish warned the New Harvest 2018 conference on “cellular agriculture,”  toward the end of two days […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Eggs, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, France, Fur & leather, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Science, Sheep & goats, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Bruce Friedrich, Craig Medred, Frankenfish, Johann Georg Faust, Lisa Murkowski, Mary Shelley, Merritt Clifton, New Harvest, Ronald L. Stotish

“Rigor mortis is our biggest problem,” meat scientist tells cell culturing conference

July 21, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Animal agribiz is about dead meat;  cellular ag isn’t             CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––Rigor mortis is the biggest technical problem the meat industry has,  John R. White Company meat scientist Benjy Mikel, Ph.D.,  of Birmingham,  Alabama,  emphasized on July 20,  2018 to the New Harvest 2018 conference on cellular agriculture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Science, Slaughter, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Benjy Mikel, Josh Tetrick, Kelly Servick, Merritt Clifton, New Harvest, Paul Mozdziak, Peter Licari, Susan Mayne, Xun Wang

Ban “nut meat”! cries animal agribusiness

May 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Animal ag biz strategists fear they can’t beat “clean meat” WASHINGTON D.C.––Killing the first edition of the 2018 Farm Bill on May 18,  2018,  the U.S. House of Representatives kicked many a highly politicized can down the street for later consideration,  including the first legislative attempt to determine what sort of can and labeling will […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Alternatives, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Eric Schultze, Isha Datar, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, Kelly Servick, Merritt Clifton, Nicholas Genovese, Steve Chapman, Tammy Baldwin, Todd Kuiken, Uma Valeti

Hampton Creek founder Tetrick pledges his “clean meat” will be vegan

July 8, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Cloned product will not be grown in serum culture, Tetrick says          SAN FRANCISCO––Hampton Creek Foods founder Josh Tetrick,  amid a mysterious destocking of all 20 Hampton Creek products by Target Corporation,  the largest Hampton Creek customer,  took a meme of unknown origin attacking cell-cultured meat seriously enough to call at 5:02 p.m. on Friday,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, Science, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Donald Watson, EatJust, Emily Moran Barwick, Hampton Creek, Josh Tetrick, Merritt Clifton

Why is animal use in labs up, even as public moral approval is down?

May 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Anti-vivisection organizations claim victory while running on old momentum WASHINGTON D.C.–– Fewer Americans than ever before––just 51%,  barely more than half––believe biomedical research on animals is ethically acceptable,  according to 2017 Gallup polling data. Paradoxically,  total use of animals in experiments appears to have soared to an all-time high,  according to research funded by People […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Chimps & other primates, Cloning & xenografts, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Educational use, Feature Home Top, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Mice & rats, Other species, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Dr. John Maxwell, Hans Reusch, Kenneth Cunnif, Merritt Clifton, Peggy Cunniff, Scott Plous, Sue O’Leary, Theo Capaldo, William Randolph Hearst

Can Tox21 robot take the gamble on animals out of toxicity testing?

April 11, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Testing device uses cells instead of animals          WASHINGTON D.C.––Can a robot detect substance toxicity toward humans faster and more accurately than a traditional test on rats,  mice,  fish,  or other animals? The developers of the Tox21 robot,  whose name is short for “Toxicology in the 21st Century,” are betting that the robot can outperform traditional […]

Filed Under: Alternatives, Feature Home Middle Left, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Other species, Regulation, Research & testing, Science Tagged With: Anna Azvolinsky, Elias Zerhouni, Francis S. Collins, Henry Spira, Merritt Clifton, Ruili Huang, Tox21

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