By Sean Keach, Digital Technology and Science Editor 10 Jun 2019, The Sun SCIENTISTS will try to grow human organs inside rats and mice, which could then be transplanted to hospital patients. But the controversial experiment – which will attempt to create a pancreas inside – has already been condemned by animal welfare experts as…
A very interesting opinion piece published last Wednesday in The Washington Times. Foundation for Biomedical Research president Matthew Bailey reveals that medical tests conducted on animals don’t just result in medicines and therapies that benefit humans but also to help animals too. According to Bailey. Veterinarians at Tufts University administered an experimental drug to a…
Canines are wonderful creatures and have long been a staple of human existence. It has been scientifically proven that dogs and humans helped one another evolve. However, there are times humans have had to use animals in terms of survival, and medical research is one of those instances. Sadly, dogs are a part of the…
The online humor website Cracked produced a YouTube video that criticized the animal rights group People for the Extortion, Torture, and Abuse of human beings (PETA). Unfortunately, Cracked took the original video and the re-make down due to the group’s continued legal pressure. The original video is not available, but the re-make is below for…
Two British animal rights activists sentenced to prison yesterday after pleading guilty to conspiracy and blackmail stemming from the couple vandalizing and firebombing vehicles, slander and issuing death threats across Europe directed at employees of companies that conduct business with Huntingdon Life Sciences based in Cambridge, England. According to UK Metro, the two Stop Huntington…
During 2012, BBC‘s program The Big Question hosted a lively, intersting debate on the issue of animal testing (aka vivisection). The program started off civil but then the animal rights, anti-testing side (not surprisingly) hurled accusations and half-truths toward the middle of the exchange. The opponents of animal testing knew they could not win the…
Back in August, People for the Extortion, Torture and Abuse of human beings (PETA) targeted a Yale graduate student, now Dr. Christine Lattin, for harassment due to experiments she was conducting for post doctoral research on songbirds. According to her website, Dr. Lattin states that her research seeks to clarify how neuroendocrine systems help organisms…
