Holocaust survivor Bienes inspired organization builder Deckers Geoffrey Deckers, 51, co-founder of the Dutch animal advocacy organization Een Dier Een Vriend [An Animal, A Friend], died suddenly on June 29, 2020. Deckers suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20, 2017, but appeared to have made a full recovery. As well as leading Een Dier Een Vriend […]
Ape learning experiments? When will humans ever learn?
Whether chimps can talk is much less perplexing than whether humans can care for them adequately after research use BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––Few people visit Blue Ridge, Georgia, population fewer than 1,500 humans, plus 78 chimpanzees retired from biomedical research use to the Project Chimps sanctuary. Quality of care issues have in 2020 emerged as a […]
Why has Project Chimps gone ape$#!T over ex-staff complaints?
Humane Society of the U.S. affiliate moves to enforce “ag-gag” against whistleblowers BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––Former Project Chimps staff members Crystal Alba and Lindsay Vanderhoogt, as well as their criticisms of the north Georgia sanctuary for chimpanzees formerly used in laboratories, might still be almost unknown to the world, except that Project Chimps recently sued […]
COVID-19: seldom has animal testing offered so little to so many
Still no animal models, three months into global crisis BEIJING, WASHINGTON D.C.––A hint of the desperation of practitioners of traditional animal-based biomedical research to contribute something of relevance to the global fight against COVID-19 was posted late on March 18, 2019 by the online periodical Live Science. “When exposed to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 […]
Why COVID-19 is NOT the zoonotic illness most likely to kill you
Panicked stress may be killing more people than the disease itself SEATTLE, ATLANTA, HONG KONG––Amid escalating global panic over the worldwide rapid spread of the recently identified coronavirus COVID-19, a person not familiar with ProMED–mail might expect the most panic-stricken person of all to be ProMED–mail deputy editor Marjorie P. Pollack, M.D. ProMED-mail is […]
Baboons on the run expose Down Under biomedical research
Male baboon briefly evades vasectomy SYDNEY, Australia––A week ago most Aussies might not have known the Australian National Baboon Colony from Parliament. A week from now similar confusion may reign. On February 24, 2020, however, three Australian National Baboon Colony inmates touched off a national debate over the ethics […]
Why is Trump EPA chief cutting animal testing while the NRDC defends it?
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 […]
Fur sales, wildlife acts, & hiding dog bite history banned in California
Fur-bearing animals & adopters of shelter/rescue dogs win protections SACRAMENTO, California––The new animal-related law in California that Governor Gavin Newsom and mass media said least about, to help protect Californians against recklessly rehomed dogs with bite history, may in the end become the most emulated among the raft of bills sent to Newsom’s desk […]
Covance beagle breeding kennels: they are not Snoopy’s doghouse
SHARK’s flying machines expose the alleged Bloody Red Baron of animal testing CUMBERLAND, Virginia––Labcorp, parent company of Covance Research Products, has yet to respond to SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) drone video exposing how thousands of beagles live at the Covance company puppy mill in Cumberland, Virginia, according to SHARK president Steve Hindi. […]
Top GMO mouse lab closing; sponsor turns toward non-animal research
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 […]
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