HSUS is first to file notice WASHINGTON D.C.––The Humane Society of the U.S. appears to have been the first organization to file notice of a legal challenge to the February 3, 2017 purge of USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service law enforcement data from the USDA-APHIS web site. USDA-APHIS deleted without prior warning […]
Near-record fine too light for SNBL labs, say SAEN, AWI, & PETA
Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories rapped for deaths of 38 macaques, among other Animal Welfare Act violations EVERETT, Washington––Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have all denounced as too light the near-record $185,000 fine and other penalties issued against the Japanese-owned company […]
Argentinian court grants zoo chimp a writ of habeas corpus
Verdict follows 2014 grant of habeas corpus to an orangutan––but writs set neither animal free MENDOZA, Argentina––A writ of habeas corpus granted on behalf of a chimpanzee named Cecelia on November 3, 2016 by Judge Maria Alejandra Mauricio, of the Third Court of Guarantees in Mendoza, Argentina, may expedite the proposed transfer of Cecelia […]
What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals
Part IV of a five-part series. (See also Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?, Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan,” Farmed animals & money talks, and Back to the Jungle Book: U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit.) LONDON, U.K.––Among the signal achievements for animal welfare during the 43 years that the United Kingdom has been […]
Humans evolved as a hunted species, discovered Robert Sussman, 74
Rejected belief that humans are violent by nature (See also Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, & Human Evolution.) Evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist Robert Sussman, 74, whose research helped to overturn the long commonly held belief that humans are violent and aggressive by nature, died on June 8, 2016 at his home in Creve Coeur, Missouri. He […]
India drops animal welfare rep from lab oversight board
Animal Welfare Board of India chief ousted for opposing bullfighting CHENNAI, India––Crippling the ability of the Animal Welfare Board of India to monitor animal use in biomedical research and product safety testing, Indian minister of environment and forests Prakash Javadekar has removed AWBI chair R.M. Kharb from his position on the 13-member Committee for […]
Two furors bring China draft standards for lab animals
Lab animal standards are step toward Chinese national animal welfare act BEIJING, China––A brief public comment period on draft animal welfare and ethics standards for Chinese laboratories closed on March 20, 2016. The draft standards were released soon after two furors erupted over the use of lab animals in China. Medical university dog use “In […]
Leading monkey lab accused of “fatal negligence”
SAEN asks USDA-APHIS to fine Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories the max EVERETT, Washington––Accusing the U.S. facilities of the Japanese-owned company Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories of “fatal negligence” leading to the deaths of monkeys for at least the fourth time in eight years, Stop Animal Exploitation Now on January 27, 2016 asked the USDA Animal […]
Ardith Eudey, 80, exposed Malaysian monkey massacres & lab traffic
Co-founded International Primate Protection League Primatologist Ardith Eudey, 80, cofounder with Shirley McGreal of the International Primate Protection League, instrumental in recent years in exposing monkey massacres and alleged trafficking in Malaysia, died in December 2015. The daughter of prominent California watercolorist and engraver Dora Higgins Eudey (1909-2006) and her husband Henry Eudey (1909-1989), Ardith […]
NIH kills one of last legacies of vivisector Harry Harlow
Funding ended for experiments by Harlow aide Stephen J. Suomi POOLESVILLE, Maryland––The National Institutes of Health have pulled the plug on another of the last active legacies of the infamous vivisector Harry Harlow, halting funding for psychological experiments on baby monkeys conducted since circa 1983 by Stephen J. Suomi at the National Institute of […]