Dr. Cindy Buckmaster of the Baylor, Texas College of Medicine delivered a speech late last year titled: Speak up or give up! The lecture is a clarion call for medical scientists to speak out and defend the use of animals in their experiments. During her speech she correctly points out not only the evil that…
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRC) has taken out billboards in the area surrounding Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota as part of an effort to condemn HCMC for using live animals to teach and train physicians in emergency medical techniques. Instead, the Star Tribune reports, PCRC suggests the hospital use simulators alleging…
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Recently, a photo depicting a rabbit with pretty serious hair loss was tweeted by an image sharing Twitter account, and then retweeted over 4,300 times. The photo appears quite shocking, and the post by the Twitter account reflected that. https://twitter.com/Uber_Pix/status/856069610185076736 Uber_Pix has written, in all caps: “NEVER WANTED A…
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Cruelty Free International (CFI), a British-based animal rights group (formerly known as the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection), has produced its annual press release about animal research numbers at British Universities. The release, entitled: “Disappointing lack of progress at UK universities as worst offenders for animal testing…
During a segment of ABC News‘ Full Measure program this past Sunday, reporter Sharyl Attkisson dedicated a segment of the show to a controversy surrounding laboratory tests involving the use of beagles conducted at National Institutes of Health (NIH) facilities. During her report, Attkisson gave some time to scientists involved in the vivisection and also…
An animal rights group named White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has filed a complaint against the Department of Veterans Affairs for using canines in experiments in the agency’s laboratories they say are not given adequate public disclosure. According to The Military Times the group alleges that while most of the labs conduct experiments, the most…
Newcastle University is defending itself against an animal rights group that has condemned recent medical tests involving 13 rhesus macaque monkeys as cruel. The UK Chronicle reports the group Cruelty Free International (CFI) is demanding the university stop using monkeys in its brain research. During the experiment, monkeys were restrained so scientists could track their…
