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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

Will “monkey shortage” due to COVID-19 bring new research methods?

September 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Researchers scrape the bottom of the barrel DAVIS, California––Will a purported national monkey shortage force COVID-19 researchers to develop new non-animal testing methods? Or is the alleged monkey shortage really just a ploy by the seven National Primate Research Centers to perpetuate their own existence,  taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to win more federal […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Research & testing, USA Tagged With: Alpha Genesis, Matthew Block, Merritt Clifton, National Institutes of Health, Shirley McGreal, World Wide Primates

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

Pit bull advocate charged with hit-&-run killing of Holocaust survivor

July 13, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Alleged killer had her favorite pit cloned,  & was charged with trying to break into a pound to rescue pits who mauled a couple             LOS ANGELES, California––Joyce Bernann McKinney,  68,  once a globally prominent pit bull advocate,  was on July 3,  2019 formally charged with assault with a deadly weapon,  hit-and-run driving, and vehicular […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Cloning & xenografts, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Pacific rim, Research & testing, Science, South Korea Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Gennady Bolotsky, Hwang Woo-suk, Joyce Bernann McKinney, Lee Byeong-chun, Merritt Clifton

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

Should giving shelter dogs & cats to university labs count as “live release”?

May 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

USDA says pound animal giveaways to vet schools are not covered by the federal Animal Welfare Act              BATON ROUGE,  Louisiana;  TUSKEGEE, Alabama––Recent transfers of shelter animals to the Louisiana State University and Tuskegee University veterinary schools have allegedly been reported by shelter personnel as “adoptions” or transfers to “rescue.” The disputed transactions appear to […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Allison Vestal-Laborde, Amanda Pumilia Forde, Bailey Chauvin, Christel Slaughter, David M. Neely, Desiree Bender, Ginger Guttner, Jeremy Beckham, Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, Kim Chatelain, Merritt Clifton, Mikhaela Singleton, Ray Smith, Robert Gibbens, Sarah Hicks, Tina Hively

Pseudo-science & the Alex Pacheco “Spay & Neuter” Cookie

December 22, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

No product,  no scientists,  nothing else that makes sense             POMPANO BEACH,  Florida––The pseudo-science in a “Spay and Neuter Cookie Science Update and Overview” fundraising appeal emailed by “600 Million Stray Dogs Need You” founder Alex Pacheco to potential donors on December 19,  2018 began in the first sentence beneath the headline.             Pacheco has […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Population control, Population control, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Alex Pacheco, Ingrid Newkirk, Joyce Briggs, Merritt Clifton, SenesTech

Can plant-based “meat” be made to satisfy the Yellow Vests?

December 6, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Demand for more & cheaper meat underlies strikes over high fuel cost             PARIS,  SAN FRANCISCO–– The “yellow vest” riots ripping apart France,  bringing at least 412 arrests on December 1,  2018 alone,  more than 260 injuries,  half of them in Paris,  and two reported deaths,  are behind the scenes adding a social peace-and-justice imperative […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, France, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Other animals & science topics, Research & testing, Science, Spain, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alshakim Nelson, Giuseppe Scionti, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, Josh Tetrick, Mark Post, Merritt Clifton, Nick Giordano, Patrick O. Brown, Tom Levitt, Yaakov Nahmias

Nazi zombies from hell: VW monkey tests & New Zealand use of 1080

September 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Pledging to quit animal tests, VW tries again to shake Nazi origin             WOLFSBURG,  Germany––Monkeys are no longer breathing diesel fumes. Volkswagen publicists are likely breathing sighs of relief. Nazi tactics and ideology live on elsewhere. Examples include the use of the Nazi-developed pesticide Compound 1080 to kill a targeted goal of two million feral […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Austria, Central Europe, Chimps & other primates, Dogs & cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Lab animals, Politics, Research & testing, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ferdinand Karl Piech, Ferdinand Porsche, Herbert Diess, Jorian Jenks, Kate Connolly, Merritt Clifton, Tasgola Brune

Animals In The Third Reich:  Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust  

June 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

by Boria Sax Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.,  (370 Lexington Ave.,  New York,  NY  10017),  2000. 206 pages,  paperback.  $19.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Hitler was a vegetarian,  probably in emulation of the composer Richard Wagner,   Boria Sax asserts,  but claims,  as vegetarian historian Rynn Berry and others have documented,  that “Hitler was probably […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Buddhism, Culture & Animals, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Merritt Clifton, Richard Craven, Rynn Berry, Sydney Coleman

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