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Stink over conditions at skunk & ferret “fur farm”

October 23, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

SAEN seeks Animal Welfare Act charges against “fur farm” that appears to breed animals mostly for laboratories & the pet trade             NEW SHARON,  Iowa––If the 85-year-old Ruby Fur Farm was just a fur farm,  producing mink or fox pelts for the garment industry,  it would not be subject to unannounced visits from the USDA […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Austria, China, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Germany, Lab animals, Netherlands, Other species, Regulation, Scandinavia, Science, USA Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Ruby Fur Farm, SAEN

Fewer dogs & cats used in U.S. labs than ever before

June 24, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Guinea pig,  hamster,  & rabbit numbers also low, but monkey use was up. Mice & rats?  Who knows?          WASHINGTON, D.C.––Are U.S. laboratories using more animals than ever before,  or fewer,   at least of most species? Laboratory animal use data from 2016 released on June 9,  2017 shows record reported lows in use of dogs,  […]

Filed Under: Cats, Chimps & other primates, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Mice & rats, Other species, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, United Kingdom, Welfare Tagged With: Alka Chandna, James Boasberg, Justin Goodman, Katherine Roe, Merritt Clifton, SAEN

SAEN asks USDA to close lab that paid near-record fine

June 19, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Repeated Animal Welfare Act violations found in follow-up inspection          EVERETT,  Washington––Citing repeated and continuing alleged violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act by the Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories’ facility in Everett,  Washington,  Stop Animal Exploitation on June 19,  2017 asked USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service western regional director Robert Gibbens to terminate […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Japan, Lab animals, Other species, Pacific rim, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Robert Gibbens, SAEN, SNBL

Trump triumph: zapping USDA web site zapped “puppy mill” law too

March 28, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Maryland legislature & SAEN try to undo some of the damage          BALTIMORE,  CINCINNATI––Can a federal agency nullify state law just by taking down a web site? While proposing budget cuts that would hamper animal-related law enforcement under every federal agency with relevant jurisdiction,  the Donald Trump administration on February 17,  2017 at least temporarily […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Educational use, Feature Home Top, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Regulation, Science, Show, Slaughter, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Benjamin Kramer, Donald Trump, Ian Duncan, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Russ Kick, SAEN

Dead-end WSU studies kill bears & bighorn sheep

August 20, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

WSU makes apparently meaningless show of response to complaints          PULLMAN,  Washington––Washington State University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee chief Phyllis Erdman on July 22,  2016 made a show of responding promptly to alleged federal Animal Welfare Act violations resulting in the accidental deaths of grizzly bears,  bighorn sheep,  calves and rabbits in university […]

Filed Under: Deer & other horned species, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Lab animals, Other species, Science, Sheep & goats, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Charlie Powell, Josh Babcock, Kim Kidwell, Merritt Clifton, Phyllis Erdman, Rocky Crate, SAEN, Thomas Besser

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

Primate research labs near the ends of their ropes

October 8, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Use of all species but macaques appears to be declining          NORMAN,  Oklahoma––The University of Oklahoma’s Health Sciences Center baboon research and breeding program is to end by 2019,  university president David Boren announced on September 8,  2015. The University of Oklahoma thereby became the most recent of a growing number of U.S. academic institutions […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Lab animals, Liberia, Sanctuaries, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: David Boren, HSUS, Karen Budkie, Marc Hauser, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, SAEN, Save the Chimps, Wayne Pacelle

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

Abandoning Vilab II chimps in Liberia, New York Blood Center did it before in Ivory Coast, SAEN charges

August 12, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Founding scientists had committed to lifelong care          NEW YORK CITY,  MONROVIA,  CINCINNATI–– “The New York Blood Center––already embroiled in charges it has abandoned 66 former research chimps to starve to death in Liberia––apparently discarded another largely unknown group of 20 chimps in Ivory Coast in 1983,  on an island adjacent to Azagny National Park,”   […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Liberia, Sanctuaries, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Aaron Kellner, Alfred M. Prince, Betsy Brotman, LEMSIP, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, New York Blood Center, SAEN, Vilab II

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