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The Origin of U.S. Dietary Guidelines
Current U.S. dietary policies still reflect the basic design of the food guides from the early part of this century. In 1894, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed the first food composition tables and dietary standards for Americans. In 1916, the first daily food guides appeared in U |
Good Medicine Archive
2011 Issues Ivy League Animal Cruelty: PCRM Uncovers Shocking Animal Cruelty at Nation's Top Schools Good Medicine Autumn 2011 Vol. XX, No. 3 |
Animal Care and Use Committees: Structural Problems Impair Usefulness
Animal Care and Use Committees: Structural Problems Impair Usefulness Introduction The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) requires that institutional animal care and use committees (IACUCs) be established at research facilities that use animals covered under the Act. The Public Health Service and the Interagency Research |
Halt Monkey Farm Construction to Protect Health and Environment, International Coalition Urges Puerto Rico Governor
WASHINGTON—A proposed primate-breeding facility in the Puerto Rican city of Guayama could endanger public health and pose serious risks to the island's environment, according to an international coalition of nonprofit health and animal protection organizations. On July 22, representatives of the Physicians C |
Monkey Farm Could Prove Catastrophic to Public Health
A proposed primate-breeding facility in the Puerto Rican city of Guayama could endanger public health and pose serious risks to the island’s environment. On July 22, PCRM joined an international coalition of nonprofit health and animal protection organizations to ask Puerto Rico to halt the construction. On |
Your Right to Know: Understanding Animal Experiments in Your Community
Selecting a Facility or Experiment Animals in Education Collecting Information Bringing in the Law |
Seven Chandler Residents, PCRM Sue City over Animal-Testing Lab
PCRM’s fight against a planned animal-testing facility in Arizona is heating up. After Covance Laboratories took another step toward the construction of a testing laboratory in Chandler, Ariz., seven city residents and PCRM filed a lawsuit July 2 in Maricopa County Superior Court. The lawsuit accuses city off |
Inspection Reports Reveal Animal Welfare Act Violations at Covance Facilities
Disturbing new evidence of cruelty to animals at Covance Laboratories may foil the company’s plans to build a huge new animal-testing facility in Chandler, Ariz. The federal government recently fined Covance based on documented allegations of striking, |
Poll Finds Broad Opposition to Covance’s Animal-Testing Plans
A new opinion poll reveals that a clear majority of the residents of Chandler, Ariz., oppose Covance’s plans to build an animal-testing facility in their town. The results of the survey, which was conducted by the Summit Group and commissioned by PCRM, were released at |
Aviation Consultants Detail Risks Associated with Covance Facility
Hazardous chemicals. Fire hazards. Disease outbreak. These are all legitimate concerns for residents of Chandler, Ariz., where animal-testing company Covance Laboratories intends to construct a giant experimentation facility. Williams Aviation Consultants Inc., on behalf of PCRM, has compiled a risk assessment of |
Tuberculosis Outbreak at Covance’s Wisconsin Facility Highlights Dangers
PCRM recently learned that five monkeys at a Covance Laboratories research facility in Madison, Wis., tested positive for tuberculosis in June of this year, and 32 monkeys were killed to stop the spread of the disease. Animal cruelty issues aside, this incident highlights the serious dangers that Covance, a contrac |
Puerto Rico Residents Win Legal Victory in Monkey Farm Fight
WASHINGTON—A judge today halted construction of a primate-breeding facility in the Puerto Rican town of Guayama that has raised serious health and environmental concerns among local residents. The decision by Judge Juan Frau Escudero of Guayama’s Superior Court is the latest development in a lawsuit filed |
Seven Local Residents, PCRM File Lawsuit Against City of Chandler
After Covance Laboratories took another step toward the construction of a giant animal-testing facility in Chandler, Ariz., seven city residents and PCRM filed a lawsuit July 2 in Maricopa County Superior Court against the city of Chandler. The lawsuit accuses city officials of violating the Arizona Open Meeting A |
Chimpanzees Win Reprieve from Experimentation, Confirms National Institutes of Health
Alamogordo Chimpanzees Will Remain at Nonresearch Facility While Institute of Medicine Reviews Usefulness of Experiments WASHINGTON—The National Institutes of Health has confirmed in a written statement that 186 chimpanzees at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico will not be moved this year to a Tex |
Monkey-Breeding Facility Sparks International Outcry
This summer, PCRM joined an international coalition taking a stand against the construction of a massive primate-breeding facility in Puerto Rico. On July 22, representatives from PCRM, the Puerto Rico Bar Association, and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection held a news conference asking Gov. Luis |
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