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ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION
Product Testing, Biomedical Research, Non-Animal Research

"There are two categories of doctors and scientists supporting vivisection.
Those that know nothing about it and those who profit from it."
— Dr. Werner Hartinger

"There isn't a single genetically manipulated mouse that has been used yet
to produce a drug that cures a disease." — Kathleen Murray, Charles
River, world's largest lab animal breeding company
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Stop Animal Testing - It's Not Just Cruel, It's Ineffective
By Kelly Overton — The pharmaceutical industry and the National Institutes of Health spend billions of dollars annually on medical research techniques that have been rendered obsolete by technological advances. Adult stem cell research is key to our status as the world's leader in medical research...

The Routine Agony of Neglected Animals in Laboratories
By Michael A. Budkie — Animal experimentation is one of the issues that has galvanized the animal rights movement from its inception. From the Silver Spring Monkeys to Huntingdon life Sciences, the life, suffering and death of rats, mice, rabbits, monkeys, dogs, cats, and guinea pigs commonly imprisoned in our...

Bear Witness: Inside Huntingdon Life Sciences, 2005
A shocking report into what goes on behind the razor wire at Huntingdon Life Sciences written by two people who worked there in 2005. Compiled by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC-UK)...

The "P" In Premarin Stands For...
Pee. Yep, pee. To acquire Premarin's "complex blend of natural estrogens," over 80,000 pregnant mares stand on pee lines in the U.S. and Canada. But you won't find urine listed on the bottle of this 60-year-old hormone replacement therapy. In fact, no one seems able to classify the mystery stuff inside Premarin...

You Paid For It
At the University of California, Davis, Dr. Kenneth Britten annually receives $220,000 to anchor restraining devices to the heads of rhesus monkeys and graft coils into their eyes. In 2001, Emory University acquired about $118,185,010 for researchers such as Garret Alexander to route electrodes into the brains of...

Inside/Out: Diary Of Madness (full booklet, PDF with photos)
Inside/Out: Diary of Madness recounts the daily horror inside Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), one of the world's largest contract research laboratories. It is a collection of articles, reflections and images from protesters outside HLS (and HLS supporters) + undercover investigators inside Huntingdon Life Sciences...

Must Mascara And Soap Hurt This Much?
Imagine you are strapped to a table. Your gut instinct is to trust the people around you. You are in their care. But your body begins to burn. Behind you, muddled words escalate with the same fury as the scalded skin you cannot reach. You are afraid. They seem indifferent to your now blood-splattered limbs. That morning...

Wasted Lives: Misconceptions About Animal Research
If Average Joe, The Wife and The Kids knew that their hard-earned tax dollars went to the study of rat sperm or to prove that older monkeys are less energetic than younger monkeys, they'd be understandably perturbed. Sadly, that last "breakthrough," co-authored by the National Institutes of Health's Wisconsin...


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