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Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?

July 1, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Part I of a five-part series.   See also Part II: Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan” and Part III: Farmed animals & money talks.   Part IV:  What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals. Part V:  Back to the Jungle Book:  U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit.          LONDON,  U.K.––Will the June 23,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Scotland, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom, Welfare Tagged With: Animal Concern, David Bowles, Helmut Dungler, Janice Cox, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Peter Davies, RSPCA, Shirley McGreal, Vier Pfoten, Wim de Kok

SAEN got their goats: Santa Cruz Biotech put out of animal lab work

May 22, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

USDA-APHIS case settlement comes after Santa Cruz Biotech was caught allegedly hiding goats from inspection SANTA CRUZ,  California––Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc.,  a major producer of antibodies,  was on May 19,  2016 fined $3.5 million and appears to have agreed to abandon working with live animals. Santa Cruz Biotech was in 2012 notoriously caught allegedly trying […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cloning & xenografts, Feature Home Middle Right, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Other species, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, Sheep & goats, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Jeremy Beckham, Merritt Clifton, Michael & Karen Budkie, Sara Reardon

India drops animal welfare rep from lab oversight board

May 7, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Organizations, Politics, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Science Tagged With: Chinny Krishna, Jallikattu, Maneka Gandhi, Merritt Clifton, Prakash Javadekar, R.M. Kharb

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

Two furors bring China draft standards for lab animals

March 26, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Chimps & other primates, China, Cultural, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Lab animals, Legislation, Mice & rats, Other species, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Science, Science Tagged With: George Dvorsky, Peter Li

Ringling may be illegally sending elephant blood to researchers, charges SAEN

January 21, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Michael Budkie writes:    Re Ringling to move all elephants from the circus ring into cancer research by May 2016,  Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus may be violating federal law by providing research material to the University of Utah from its soon-to-be retired elephants. Public records disclose that Feld Entertainment,  the owner of the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Lab animals, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Other species, Regulation, Science, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Michael Budkie, Ringling, SAEN

Lab chimp retirement upstages steep rise in monkey use

November 22, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

100 times more monkeys enter U.S. labs than chimps are leaving CHARLESTON,  South Carolina;  WASHINGTON D.C.––“One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show,”   rhythm-and-blues composer Stick McGhee wrote in 1950.  Big Maybelle made the message famous five years later. The National Institutes of Health decision to retire the last 50 chimpanzees held in the U.S. for biomedical research,  however, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Middle Right, Lab animals, Regulation, Research & testing, Sanctuaries, Science, Space research, USA Tagged With: Alpha Genesis, Frances Collins, Ham, John Paul Stapp, Merritt Clifton, Michael & Karen Budke, National Institutes of Health, SAEN

Factory-farming monkeys is A-OK with Hendry County brass

September 2, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Zoning officials zoning? LaBELLE, Florida––Monkey-farming is animal agriculture within the meaning of the zoning ordinance in Hendry County,  Florida,  county officials announced on August 18,  2015. Hendry County residents opposed to the location and practices of Primate Products and two other nearby laboratory monkey breeding facilities had hoped that they could be closed for alleged […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Hendry County, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Justin Goodman, Merritt Clifton, Thomas J. Rowell

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston failed to euthanize monkeys dying from Ebola-Marburg

September 1, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Project leader Thomas W. Geisberg was 2014 TIME Person-of-theYear          GALVESTON,  Texas––A recent investigation of a disease in the Ebola family done at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston involved alleged “critical,  major,  and minor” violations of animal welfare protocols,  according to an audit by the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Top, Lab animals, Liberia, Other, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, Security, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Galveston National Laboratory, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, SAEN, Thomas W. Geisberg, University of Texas Medical Branch

The Poet-Physician & The Healer-Killer: Vivisection & the Emergence of a Medical Technocracy

August 10, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Roberta Kalechovsky, Ph.D. Micah Publications (225 Humphrey St., Marblehead, MA 01945),  2009. 230 pages,  paperback. $22.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Visiting with the renowned author Roberta Kalechovsky and her husband Bob at the recent AR-2015 animal rights conference in Alexandria,  Virginia,  I recalled and mentioned to her The Poet-Physician & The Healer-Killer,  my favorite among her […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science Tagged With: Anna Kingsford, Claude Bernard, Frances Power Cobbe, Jean Guillotine, Jean Meslier, John Keats, Leon LeForte, Roberta Kalechovsky, Stephen Paget

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