Letter: AMP Applauds Texas A&M Research
Re: “Raising hope and alarm — Texas A&M researchers have quietly bred sick dogs in their quest for a cure to human muscular dystrophy/While PETA and other animal activists protest, families support lab work,” Sunday news story. Read more.
AMP defends animal studies in the Michigan Daily
Written by Abigail Takas
PETA ranks University among ‘worst’ for animal testing
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued a press release last week naming the University of Michigan as one of the “worst” universities for animal testing. PETA’s “Failed Tests: Campus Cruelty Report” investigated hundreds of universities across the country and ranked them as “bad,” “worse” and “worst.” PETA ranked U-M as one of the 93 schools categorized as “worst,” a distinction given to only about 14 percent of the 657 colleges investigated. Read more.
Environmental Protection Agency wants to phase out animal testing by 2035
Written by Michelle Stoddart
The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to phase out the use of animal testing to determine whether chemicals are safe, setting the goal of eliminating it completely in 16 years. Read more.
Texas A&M researchers quietly bred sick dogs in hopes of finding human muscular dystrophy cure
Written by Rebekah Allen
COLLEGE STATION — A colony of golden retrievers and Labrador mixes lives in an unmarked building at Texas A&M. Few Aggies will ever see them, and many of the dogs will never know another home. Read more.
Spring Green meeting addresses medical research amid debate surrounding dog breeding facility
After months of debate surrounding the Spring Green facility that breeds dogs for medical research, a national research group came to the Village of Spring Green to back up the facility owner’s claims. Read more.
Public being misled on proposed Spring Green dog breeding facility
Written by Jim Newman
Dear Editor: Dane4Dogs is not being truthful with the public when they claim they are simply opposed to the “use of dogs and cats for painful or distressing experimentation,” which is a rare thing. Read more.
Inhumane or unavoidable? As Congress scrutinizes an increase in monkey research, scientists defend its necessity
Written by Ruth Hailu
Federally funded research labs conduct thousands of experiments that rely on monkeys and other nonhuman primates — and now, Congress is ramping up its scrutiny of that science.
As part of the congressional appropriations process in the House this year, lawmakers directed both the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to produce reports detailing the ways the agency’s scientists use the thousands of nonhuman primates in their research centers. Read more.
More research labs are retiring monkeys when studies finish
Written by Carrie Antlfinger
Izzle, Timon, Batman, River and Mars spent years confined inside a lab, their lives devoted to being tested for the benefit of human health.
But these rhesus macaques have paid their dues and are now living in retirement — in larger enclosures that let them venture outside, eat lettuce and carrots, dip their fingers in colorful plastic pools, paint, and hang from pipes and tires — in relative quiet. Read more.
Group files animal-welfare complaint against Nationwide Children’s over pig
Written by JoAnne Viviano
An animal welfare group has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate and fine the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus over a pig that had to be euthanized in March after a surgery broke protocol in a federally funded project. Read more.
Animal Rights Groups Renew Legislative Push Against Animal Research
Written by Elizabeth Doughman
Two months ago, pressure from animal rights groups ended critical research involving cats at the United States Department of Agriculture. Now, these groups are continuing efforts to stop animal research, concentrating on non-human primate and canine studies and research techniques used for studying depression. Read more.