By Matthew Wang, November 15, 2019, The Chronicle Animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ranked Duke among the worst schools in the country for animal testing, but Duke professors and students argued that the University meets ethical standards for research. PETA’s new “Failed Tests” feature rates colleges and universities as “bad,”…
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…
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…
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…
