Why was University of South Carolina researcher given $824,000 over four years to prove that rats can get hooked? COLUMBIA, South Carolina––“This is the kind of thing that gives people like me nightmares,” Stop Animal Exploitation Now executive director Michael Budkie told media. Budkie was discussing recent rodent experiments at the University of South […]
NIH discontinues funding studies on “random source” dogs
Quit funding random source cat studies in 2012 WASHINGTON D.C.––The National Institutes of Health on October 1, 2014 discontinued funding experiments using dogs obtained from “random sources,” meaning pounds, other animal shelters, and bunchers commonly called “Class B dealers.” The NIH cessation of funding for research “is in response to a 2009 National Academy of […]