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OTTAWA — Animal suffering won’t be considered when a Health Canada agency next reviews licences for poisons used to kill predators, the department has ruled. In a decision released this week, Health Canada says the Pest Management Regulatory Agency won’t include “humaneness” in how it assesses toxins such as strychnine. “Health Canada will not be […]
On March 8th, 2020 a volunteer published their heartbreaking experience volunteering at the Fort Erie SPCA. While going to the shelter every day she started witnessing the animal abuse and neglect as well as the obvious incompetence of the charity’s management team. When the volunteer approached FE SPCA manager Wendy Trombley about the cruel and […]
CAARE’s report, From Trauma to Treatment, details the sweeping failure of PTSD experiments on animals to help patients, in contrast to existing, effective treatments and modalities for human-based research. Yet despite the existence of highly successful therapies to treat PTSD, only 10% of patients currently receive them. Rather than bridge this gap in access to care, millions of government […]
By Nicole Corrado Dear UC Davis, Please stop eugenics prenatal testing experiments. I agree that women have choices over their own bodies, but testing for autism antibodies so that a potentially autistic baby can be aborted is eugenics. I am autistic, and it really bothers me that people might see autism as a disease to […]
Following years of pressure from PETA, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has announced a groundbreaking decision to delete all animal tests—including drowning mice and rats and making them run to exhaustion on an electrified treadmill—from its draft regulation for marketing foods and beverages using dubious anti-fatigue health claims. The agency is now accepting public comments through […]
The scientific conference “Towards replacement of animals for scientific purposes” will take place online on 2 and 3 February 2021. Organised by the European Commission, the conference aims to accelerate the move away from using animals in science and testing. The conference will be of interest to all those working with animal models or alternative approaches, […]
Before leaving office, Andrew Wheeler directed the EPA to retire the last-remaining rabbits used for their ejaculatory fluids inside its laboratory in North Carolina. by ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA JANUARY 20, 2021 2,655 Shares In one of his last actions as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief this week, Andrew Wheeler directed the retirement of the last-remaining rabbits used for […]
By Dr. Maidie Hilmo Regarding motivation and ethics when it comes to using animals in medical research—the latter too often goes out the window not only because researchers soon lose “all respect for living things in a short while,” but because the whole system is self-perpetuating. Beginning academic researchers have to please established professors who […]