Lab primates

November 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

The Swiss drug firm
Novartis Pharma AG on September
26 reportedly merged with
Biotransplant Inc. of Massachusetts,
with which it has worked
for several years to breed pigs
with human genes, and said it
would close Imutran, a British
subsidiary which on September 21
was subject of a London Daily

Express expose of allegedly cruel
conditions and falsified data in
pig-to-primate transplant experiments.
The Daily Express expose
was based on documents leaked to
the animal advocacy group
Uncaged Campaigns.
“Effective September
5, 2000, China Airlines will not
accept live primates destined for
experimentation as cargo,” the
airline has informed the Animal
Protection Institute.

Animals in Research

New anti-live market abuse, rodeo shocking, and animal testing laws in Calif.––and more!

November 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

SACRAMENTO––”After five years of
failed agreements, undercover investigations, and
heated public hearings,” San Francisco SPCA
Department of Law and Advocacy chief Nathan
Winograd announced on October 3, “animal welfare
advocates have passed a law protecting live
animals sold for food in California. Governor Gray
Davis has signed AB 2479, introduced by assembly
member Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica).
“The new law prohibits stores from skinning
and dismembering live animals, as well as
storing and displaying animals in ways likely to
result in injury, starvation, or suffocation. The law
applies to frogs, turtles, and birds sold for food,”
whom antiquated legal language previously
exempted from coverage by the California anti-cruelty
statutes.

CAN HUMAN-RAISED CHIMPS FIND HAPPINESS?

July 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2000:

Experiments of markedly contrasting
intent in raising young chimpanzees are underway
at the Primarily Primates sanctuary in San
Antonio, Texas, and the New Iberia Primate
Center on the campus of the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette.
In San Antonio, Primarily Primates
president Wally Swett is trying to hand-raise two
young chimps whose mothers were too psychologically
and physically scarred by use in biomedical
research to be able to rear them. His goal
is to produce happy, healthy adults who will be
able to live without maladjustment for the rest of
their lives in a sanctuary setting.
The first infant chimp, Deeter, is a
male who “was born at Primarily Primates on
May 28, 1999, after his mother Betty, a former
member of the NASA colony at Holloman Air
Force Base in New Mexico, arrived pregnant,”
Swett explains. “Sadly, Betty had deformed
breasts and couldn’t feed him.”

NIH “reclaims” 288 chimpanzees from Coulston Foundation

June 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2000:

ALAMOGORDO, N.M.––Bailing the Coulston Foundation out of yet another jam––although Coulston spokesperson Don McKinney denied that the foundation was actually in a jam––the National Institutes of Health on May 11 reclaimed title to 288 of the 650 chimpanzees at the Coulston primate care facility on the grounds of Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

As recently as March 20, In Defense of Animals recommended such a takeover, claiming in a press release that “Coulston is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, with at least $800,000 in unpaid bills and $2.6 million in outstanding loans.”

But IDA president Elliot Katz was not happy with the deal. “Because it does not call for retirement, does not prevent more research, and does not guarantee the removal of the chimps from Coulston’s control, the NIH plan is a shocking betrayal,” charged Katz, whose staff has closely monitored Coulston dealings for years.

Feds find out that force-feeding white phosphorous to mute swans kills them

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LAUREL, Md. – – “ T h i s has been proclaimed the year that mute swans will be eliminated from North America,” warns swan defender Kathryn Burton of Old Lyme, Connecticut. “A directive to get rid of all mutes on federal property came from the Interior Department in 1997,” endorsed by many state wildlife agencies as well, “with the goal being total eradication in 2000,” Burton adds.

Eradicating mute swans could become a symbolic first victory for the Invasive Species Council, created by executive order of President Bill Clinton in early February 1999 with a mandate to destroy all wild animals and plants not native to the U.S.

Mute swans are easy targets because they are few, are large, are conspicuous, remain together as pairs even when one partner is gravely wounded, and are hated by wildlife managers who blame them for 13 years of failures to re-establish huntable populations of native trumpeter swans.

Lab to be charged

June 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2000:

CAPE TOWN, S.A.––S o u t h African National SPCA senior inspector Neil Fraser told reporters in mid-May that cruelty charges would be brought against Centre in Africa of Primatological Experimentation director Marc BaillyMaistre for allowing 30 baboons and vervets to starve at his facility, described by Fiona Macleod of the Johannesburg Mail & Guardian as having “shadowy links with the military.” Seven starving wild-caught baboons were euthanized, a decade after 122 baboons were euthanized at CAPE for similar reasons by National Council of SPCAs staff.

According to Macleod, CAPE operates from government land and “was allegedly set up as a front for the former South African Defence Force. CAPE has also been linked,” she wrote, “to the notorious Roodeplates Research Laboratory near Pretoria, where the SADF conducted biological and chemical experiments.”

Rising lab primate demand sparks renewed international traffic

April 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2000:

PORTLAND, Ore.; SAN ANTONIO––A year ago researchers and sanctuarians wondered what to do with increasing numbers of nonhuman primates surplused by labs as too costly to keep and too little in demand to sell.

Now, says Science reporter Jon Cohen, “Demand for rhesus macaques, the animal of choice for AIDS researchers, far outstrips the supply.”

The National Institutes of Health in mid-1999 moved to stimulate breeding by elevating the San Antoniobased Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research to Regional Primate Research Center status––the first new one since the original seven were designated in 1962. The San Antonio facility has 3,400 baboons, 240 chimpanzees, and about 150 other nonhuman primates, mostly rhesus macaques.

Wins against dissection, pound seizure

April 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2000:

CHICAGO, HOUSTON, SAN DIEGO––University of Illinois veterinary students need no longer participate in killing and dissecting healthy dogs.

At urging of Class of 2002 member Linnea Stull and allies, the faculty of the UI College of Veterinary Medicine on February 8 affirmed a January 17 promise to adopt a new animal use policy which officially allows for students to opt out of “demonstrations or invasive procedures performed solely for instructional purposes which conclude with the death or euthanasia of the animal.”

Alternative learning procedures are to be offered to students who opt out of the dog labs. UI also discontinued using any random source animals, i.e. dogs and cats from pounds and/or Class B dealers.

RETURN OF THE PET THIEVES

March 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:

NASHVILLE, MUNCIE, KALAMAZOO, FLINT––Missing dog reports reminiscent of the bad old days of roundups for laboratory use flooded animal shelter telephone lines and Internet chat boards between Thanksgiving 1999 and mid-January 2000 in at least three midwestern and southern regions linked by Interstate Highways 64, 65, and 69.

The first burst of theft reports fitting the pattern came in Maury County, Tennessee, south of Nashville. Almost all of the missing animals were reportedly purebreds.

After Christmas came 30 alleged thefts in southwestern Indiana.

“Red flags started going up,” said Evansville Courier & Press staff writer Judy Davis, when Gibson County Animal Services director Cindy Hyneman realized that, ‘All of the dogs’ descriptions matched––large, shorthaired, friendly dogs.’”

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