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Lab-Animal Alternatives Are the New Guinea Pigs


Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, animal testing, sadness, suffering )

Maria
- 133 days ago - news.medill.northwestern.edu
Scientific advancements in medical testing may reduce the need for animal subjects, eliminating the heated debate without another fight. Although scientists are already carrying out many of the alternatives in major research, some believe
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mary f. (77)
Thursday August 6, 2009, 3:44 am
anthing that stops animal testing is good neas
 

Gillian M. (112)
Thursday August 6, 2009, 2:11 pm
Animal testing is bad for humans, we have been saying that for years! Then there is an idiot who says that despite that we still need to test on animals, what for?
 

Gemma H. (47)
Thursday August 6, 2009, 4:42 pm
8 'schools' using live animal testing is 8 too many, tho good to see this is by far the lesser portion.
Thanks for informative article Maria.
 

Bill C. (347)
Friday August 7, 2009, 9:06 am
What will it take for you to realise PCRM is manipulating you. Animal use in Universities is public record, the AAALAC acredits over 700 major universities and labs that use animals. What PCRM does is tell you about one aspect of use as some implication the University does not use animals, they are lieing to you.

Do you want the truth? No one want animals in labs, we need them. To prove to you PCRM is just feeding you selective bits of information here is the link to one one accrediation tool.

Every single one of these uses animals in labs, 770 PCRM fail to mention, universities like Duke, Auburn, Brandeis, Emory, Brown, Dartmouth and so many more that use animals everyday. Each one of the Universities also has online pages telling you all the research that is being done as it is required. Just because a school does not use a live animal in a specific program does not mean they do not use animals in research and that is the issue if I am not mistaken.

Read for yourself: http://www.aaalac.org/accreditedorgs/aaalaclistall.cfm

Please realize the way to reduce number is change laws, cap numbers, species regulation. All medical schools have departments funded to find and use alternative methods. PCRM is PeTA and the group has less than 4% physicians, what they are concerned about is not your health but promoting Veganism.

I hope your brave enough to look past the hype from PCRM and learn, get the truth and look at the link I provided. You will likely find every major medical University in the world there.

If you want change, the first thing I would change is believeing PCRM or PeTA.
 

Maria Oniga (625)
Friday August 7, 2009, 9:12 am
All I Want,Bill,is that experiments STOP!!!!
 
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