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Drug money crushes Swiss proposed ban on animal use in laboratories

February 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Pharmaceutical industry tries to drive stake through the heart of the ghost of Hans Ruesch             ZURICH,  Switzerland––Voters in Switzerland on February 13,  2022 crushed a proposed national ban on biomedical research using either animal or human subjects by a margin of 21% for,  79% against. Switzerland has some of the strongest animal protection laws […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Central Europe, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Humane history, Lab animals, Mediterranean, Mice & rats, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Switzerland Tagged With: Abbott, Bayer, Hans Ruesch, Hoffmann-La Roche, Lonza Group, Merritt Clifton, Novartis, Renato Werndli

Robert Dole: why did Pacelle, Amundson, & Bershadker inflate his record?

December 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Robert Dole,  at best,  had a good record on animal issues for a Trumpist––but he was no Hubert Humphrey,  nor even a Richard Nixon Robert Joseph Dole,  98,  the 1996 Republican presidential nominee,  U.S. Senator from Kansas 1969-1996,  and a Kansas member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1960-1968,  died on December 5,  2021. Lauded […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Mice & rats, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Pigs, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Slaughter, Slaughter, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Elizabeth Dole, Hubert Humphrey, Jesse Helms, Lyndon Johnson, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Richard Nixon, Sara Amundson, Wayne Pacelle

Soon-to-retire NIH chief Francis Collins went both ways on lab animals

October 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“We are not rats and we are not even other primates,”  Collins said,  but NIH is now using more of both WASHINGTON D.C.–– Francis S. Collins,  who both de-emphasized animal research and presided over expanded animal research during his 12 years as director of the National Institutes of Health [NIH],  on October 5,  2021 disclosed […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Science, USA Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Elias Zerhouni, Francis S. Collins, Justin Goodman, Katherine Roe, Larry Carbone, Merritt Clifton, National Institutes of Heath

The Body Shop to go “100% vegan” by 2023––but wasn’t it already?

June 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Expanding the gulf between image and reality is what the cosmetics industry is all about             LONDON, U.K.––Cosmetics and personal care industry media are abuzz with the June 1,  2021 announcement by The Body Shop that every product it offers will be 100% vegan by the end of 2023. Many consumers,  on the other hand,  […]

Filed Under: Alternatives, Animal rights & welfare, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Isles, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Anita Roddick, Anna Starostinetskaya, Body Shop, Greenpeace, Jon Entine, LiveKindly, Merritt Clifton, Vegan Society, VegNews

Animal labs get free pass on inspections; AV groups mostly don’t notice

May 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Harvard law student discovers animal lab inspections have been cut short since 2019             CAMBRIDGE,  Massachusetts––The silence from a cage of dead monkeys could scarcely be more deafening. Three business days plus a weekend of apparent near-complete non-response from the animal advocacy community have elapsed since the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Clinic […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Mice & rats, Other species, Regulation, Science, USA Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Brett Richey, Casey Borch, David Grimm, Justin Goodman, Katherine Meyer, Merritt Clifton

Anti-vivisectionism goes to the dogs

March 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy,  except in their capacity to raise funds.” WASHINGTON D.C.––Lest there be any doubt that antivivisection advocacy in the 21st century has gone to the dogs,  the White Coat Waste Project,  the Humane Society of the U.S.,  and Stop Animal Exploitation Now in recent […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Ingrid Newkirk, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Natalie Warhit, Sara Amundson

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

How does anyone run a monkey through a washing machine by accident?

December 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Technicians at Oregon Health Sciences University,  Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories,  Harvard,  & Bristol-Myers Squibb have managed to do it HILLSBORO,  Oregon––An Oregon Health Sciences University internal investigation into the deaths of two rhesus macaques who were killed on August 13,  2020 when their cage was run through a cage-washing machine with the monkeys still inside […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Science, USA Tagged With: Jim Klassen, Max Egener, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Paula S. Gladue

COVID-19: seldom has animal testing offered so little to so many

March 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Chimps & other primates, China, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laboratories, Mice & rats, Science, Science Tagged With: Cat Lutz, Chien-Te Tseng, Danny Prater, David Grimm, James Gorman, Merritt Clifton, Nick Sas, Nicoletta Lanese, Stanley Perlman

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

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