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Frequently Asked Questions About Animal Experimentation Issues
Frequently Asked Questions About Animal Experimentation Issues 1. What concerns are raised by the use of animals for medical and scientific experiments? 2. What are the alternatives to using animals in medical experiments? 3. Is some animal testing required by law? 4. D |
Is Your Sunscreen Safe for Humans and Animals?
Many sunscreens, lawn-care treatments, and other products used to make your summer safe and enjoyable are not safe for animals. Often, these products have been tested using painful animal experiments—even though such tests don’t guarantee the products are safe for humans. But Congress is now considerin |
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RESEARCH ETHICS By Kristie Sullivan, M.P.H. TOXICITY TESTING New nonanimal methods have made it easier, faster, and cheaper for chemical companies to produce new products, satisfying the growing demand for environmentally friendly produc |
How You Can Help Reform the March of Dimes
1. Tell other people about the March of Dimes! Most people are not aware that the charity wastes their charitable donations on cruel and useless experimentation. One way you can easily raise awareness is to write letters: to the editor, to a celebrity spokesperson, and/or to any company in your community that suppor |
PCRM Confronts the Military’s Deadly Use of Animals for Medical Training
For the soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division, it must have been a gruesome experience. Earlier this year, instructors with the division’s 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team shot a group of pigs at Hawaii’s Schofield Barracks. They then instructed soldiers to practice treating the animals’ wounds. |
March of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: Commonly Asked Questions
March of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: Commonly Asked Questions Animal Welfare 1. Does the March of Dimes still fund shocking animal experiments? 2. Is there any evidence for the poor treatment of animals in March of Dimes experiments? 3. How can there be any pain or suffe |
Research
Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act Support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (H.R. 1513/S. 810), which would phase out invasive experiments on chimpanzees and release all federally owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries. Take Act |
Meet Some of the Lost or Surrendered Dogs Who Were Used and Killed at University of Michigan
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (U-M) continues to use dogs from Michigan shelters in its Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course. Notorious Class B dealer R&R Research sells dogs to U-M. Learn more about how these dogs are sold to U-M and help us end the use of animals in U-M’s ATLS course. |
Dissection Alternatives Victory
Animal dissection has been disappearing from our nation’s classrooms. Now the National Science Teachers Association, the largest science education association in the world, has announced a revision to its position in support of humane alternatives to dissection in classrooms. The new National Science Teacher |
New Chemical Legislation Could Help Protect Future Generations
By Samuel L. Jacobs, M.D. This opinion piece was printed on May 11, 2010, in the North Jersey Record. As if new parents didn’t have enough to worry about, now they have to ponder the safety of their baby’s bottle. As an obstetrician and gynecologist, I have patients who are losing sleep over whether the |
Military Injects Monkeys with Nerve Agent
A monkey shakes violently from his jaws all the way to his hind legs. A large black tattoo reading “I035” stretches along the shaven left side of his twitching torso. He salivates profusely, and a puddle forms around his face. This scene is from a military training video PCRM obtained from the U.S. A |
PCRM Position Paper on Animal Research
Approved by the PCRM Board of Directors, July 21, 2010 The primary purpose of medical research is to promote human health, and the most direct research methods focus on the study of human populations, individuals, and tissues. Animal research has been used as an alternative method when the study of humans is deemed |
Physicians and Scientists Form New Scientific Society to Promote Nonanimal Testing
PCRM and the Institute for In Vitro Sciences Inc., in Gaithersburg, Md., have formed a new scientific society to promote the research, development, and routine use of nonanimal toxicological testing methods. The American Society for Cellular and Computational Toxicology is the first scientific society in North Ame |
Doctors Urge Mass General to Stop Using Sheep in Lethal Procedures
BOSTON—Massachusetts General Hospital should end the unnecessary use of live sheep in a trauma training course, says a national physicians group. Doctors with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), including cardiologist John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., will join concerned Massachusetts resi |
PCRM Statement on the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010 (H.R. 5820)
News and Media PCRM STATEMENT ON THE TOXIC CHEMICALS SAFETY ACT OF 2010 (H.R. 5820) Key Improvements Needed: Effective Public Health Protection is Dependent on Modern and Efficient Toxicity Testing Methods The Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010 (TCSA), introduced last week by Rep. Bobby Rush, chairman of t |
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