The group Citizens for Alternatives to Animal Research (CAAR) has filed a complaint with the US Agriculture Department against University of Missouri (aka MU or Mizzou) alleging the MU abridged the Animal Welfare Act during research for a 2016 study that involved exacting trauma on the left eyes of beagles. According to the Missourian, the…
USA Today reports a Wisconsin state appellate court sided with the Animal Legal Defense Fund in a lawsuit they brought against the University of Wisconsin for with holding records related to animal tests at UW-Madison’s medical laboratory. The reason for the decision was UW saw the documents as not meeting the public records definition stating…
During July of last year, the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga joined Johns Hopkins University in no longer using animals in its training programs for medical students. Animal rights groups have successfully pressured colleges and universities to end their use of animals in training medical students and for medical experiments for years.…
Though Animal Liberation Front (ALF) maybe laying low in the United States their affiliates in Chile have become very active as of late. According to the Animal Liberation Press Office that aanimal rights activism (including acts of terrorism) ALF has reported increased terrorist activity with their Chilean cells has taken place in the last five…
Science magazine reveals a medical researcher at Yale University is the subject of a harassment and intimidation campaign conducted by animal rights activists. Back in May, People for the Extortion, Torture and Abuse of human beings (PETA) published a post on the group’s blog decrying the efforts of postdoc Christin Lattin accusing her of torturing…
Back in July, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a set of spending bills of which one included language banning the use of canines in almost all medical experiments for Department of Veterans Administration labs. The Senate was set to take up the spending bills that includes the canine testing ban this week. Fortunately,…
A coalition of animal rights groups were dealt a set back this week in their pursuit of seeking to force the US Department of Agriculture to place animal welfare records back on the agency’s website that were removed in February. According to The Hill, Judge William Orrick who serves in the U.S. District Court for…
