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Category Archives: Animal testing

Beetle can withstand a force 39,000 times its body weight

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on October 22, 2020 by MikeBOctober 22, 2020
Ironclad beetle

The oak-dwelling ironclad beetle is teaching humans how to build crush-proof products in commercial fields such as aeronautics and construction. They’ve been carrying out research on the beetle which is normally found on the western coast of North America. They … Continue reading →

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Shortage of monkeys slows testing of coronavirus vaccine

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on September 2, 2020 by MikeBSeptember 2, 2020
Rhesus macaque monkey

In America there is a shortage of rhesus macaque monkeys for animal testing purposes. There was a shortage years before the coronavirus pandemic but now US research centres are saying that there are not enough to go around and there … Continue reading →

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Pfizer – world’s 3rd largest pharmaceutical company – committed to banning the forced swim test

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on November 1, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Dead mouse - animal testing

After less than a year of intense pressure from PETA and more than half a million activists like you, Pfizer – the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical company – has committed to banning the forced swim test. In this experiment, small animals such as mice … Continue reading →

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Should mouse lemurs replace mice in animal testing?

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on July 3, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Mouse lemur

Mouse lemurs are the smallest primates. They are abundant in the jungles of Madagascar. They can be bred fast. They could be very useful with respect to animal testing for Alzheimer’s disease in humans. They could be useful to explore … Continue reading →

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Chinese create a transgenic monkey

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on April 16, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019

The Chinese have inserted human genes into the brains of monkeys in an attempt to create ‘transgenic monkeys’ with brains which mirror in certain ways human brains. Is this a slippery slope to more extreme experiments? Is this ethical? The … Continue reading →

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Dutch cat and dog animal testing increase

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on April 10, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019

Shockingly in an age when people are more aware of the cruelty of animal testing and when there are more opportunities through technological development to avoid testing on animals, in Holland it is on the increase and substantially so. NL … Continue reading →

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Organ-on-a-chip will reduce animal testing

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on April 4, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
organs-on-a-chip

I am very optimistic about this new method of testing drugs. It’s called organs-on-a-chip. The video below explains what it is. Essentially, it means that drugs can be tested in an entirely artificial environment. This should, and I hope, must … Continue reading →

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Stopped! Cat cannibalism at USDA testing center

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on April 4, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Cat at USDA testing facility

This is quite a long-running story. It was exposed some months ago. At a USDA testing centre (the Agricultural Research Service – ARS) young cats were being fed with Toxoplasma gondii infected cat meat imported from China and I believe … Continue reading →

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USDA purchased toxoplasmosis infected dead cats from the Asian cat meat markets

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on March 19, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Animal testing facility in Maryland

The USDA purchased toxoplasmosis infected dead cats from the objectionable Asian cat meat markets in order to feed them to hundreds of young cats over many years at an animal testing facility in Beltsville, Maryland. They also purchased dogs from … Continue reading →

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80,000 people plead for dogs facing death in dental study

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on February 16, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Six labradors about to be killed for animal testing

A dental study on six black labradors is in the process of taking place at Gothenburg University, Sweden. The dogs have to be killed in order to assess the success of the process being tested. They had a third of … Continue reading →

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Cruel Agribusiness Animal Experiments Must Stop

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on February 2, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019

To “improve carcass merit” means to boost livestock industry profits. It’s a euphemism for animal abuse, in truth. I’m referring to the taxpayer-funded USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in Nebraska, the world’s largest livestock research center. A whistleblower, Jim … Continue reading →

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China clones macaque monkey with ‘disorder’ for animal testing purposes

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on January 25, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019

This is questionable behaviour in my opinion. Chinese scientists say they have cloned five baby monkeys from a genetically edited macaque monkey with a brain disorder. The intention is to create cloned versions of this monkey so that they can … Continue reading →

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