Children & Animals: NABT MOVES TOWARD STRONGER SUPPORT OF CLASSROOM DISSECTION

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

WASHINGTON D.C.––The National Association of Biology Teachers has withdrawn its monograph The

Responsible Use of Animals in Biology Classrooms “due to ethical concerns about some of its classroom exercises and about

the unequal representation of animal rights and biomedical research groups in the resource list,” according to the

February/March 1994 edition of National Science Teachers Association Reports. NABT executive director Patricia

LAB ANIMAL USE DOWN, STUDIES FIND BUT BETTER RECORDKEEPING NEEDED

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

WASHINGTON, D.C.– – Three

newly published independent reviews of

available data on laboratory animal use con-

clude that the number of animals used is

generally declining, especially relative to

the number of research projects under-

way––but agree too that USDA reporting

requirements need to be strengthened.

F. Barbara Orlans, Ph.D., of the

Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown

University, argued in the winter 1994 edi-

tion of the University of Chicago journal

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine that

animal use peaked in 1984-1985, fell albeit

with upward fluctuations during the next

five years, and seems to have leveled off

somewhat above the norms of the early

1970s. Orlans noted a drop of nearly half in

dog use since 1975 and downward trends in

the use of cats and primates. “For dogs,”

she wrote, “the range is from a high of

211,000 in 1979 to a low of 108,000 in

1991; for cats, the range is from a high of

74,000 in 1974 to a low of 35,000 in 1991.”

Biomedical research

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

Following five years of controversy and

a two-month probe by concerned individuals and

organizations, the University of Arizona in mid-

March released 12 greyhounds bought for biomed-

ical research from Greg Ludlow of GTL Kennels in

Goodyear, Arizona. Another greyhound was to be

released upon completion of a pacemaker trial; a

14th had already been used in a terminal experiment.

For the second time in six years, and just one year

after serving out a five-year USDA suspension of his

Class B dealer’s license, Ludlow was accused of

obtaining and selling dogs under false pretenses.

The release was achieved through the cooperation of

Concerned Arizonans for Animal Rights and Ethics,

the Greyhound Protection League, Greyhound

Network News, the management of the greyhound

tracks at Phoenix and Apache Junction, and Arizona

Greyhound Breeders and Kennel Operators.

Biomedical research

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1994:

A 13-member panel appointed

by the National Research Council’s

Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources

is presently revising the NRC Guide for the

Care and Use of Laborary Animals – – the

standard reference upon which Animal

Welfare Act regulations tend to be based.

The revision is expected to profoundly influ-

ence the shape of forthcoming new regula-

tions on the housing and care of dogs and

nonhuman primates, which have been the

subject of intense lobbying and repeated

court battles ever since an amendment to the

AWA mandating improved dog and primate

care was passed by Congress sans enforce-

ment regulations in 1985. If the NRC stan-

dards are stricter than those mandated by the

AWA regulations, those of the NRC will

nonetheless prevail in any research funded

by the National Institutes of Health. “The

current committee represents only scientists

and academicians, and includes no represen-

tation from the animal protection movement

nor from the public,” objects F. Barbara

Orlans, Ph.D., who as author of In The

Name of Science: Issues in Animal

Experimentation, is both a prominent

researcher and a leading humane advocate.

Biomedical research

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

Despite a warning from senior radi-

ation biologist Dr. Joseph Hamilton that the

experiments had “a little of the Buchenwald

touch, “ the Atomic Energy Commission con-

ducted extensive radiation research on unwitting

human subjects from the mid-1940s into the

early 1970s, according to newly declassified

documents released in December by Energy

Secretary Hazel O’Leary, who battled her own

bureaucracy for nearly a year to obtain them. In

one experiment, 19 mentally retarded teenaged

boys at a state school in Fernald, Mass-

achusetts, were given radioactive milk with

their breakfast cereal from 1946 until 1956. In

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

Activism

“The Animal Liberation Front planted nine incen-

diary devices in four Chicago department stores which sell

fur,” media were told in a November 28 fax communique.

“The incendiaries were designed to start a small fire which

would in turn set off the stores’ sprinkler systems and cause

water damage. This action signals the start of a new, more

intense campaign of economic sabotage.” Five of the fire-

bombs went off November 28 and 29, doing minor damage at

Marshall Field, Carson and Saks. Three more were removed

by police and FBI agents. The ninth apparently never turned

up. Copies of a British ALF manual describing how to make

firebombs arrived in the mailboxes of numerous animal protec-

tion groups during the next few days, postmarked Palatine,

Illinois––a Chicago suburb. The incident gave furriers a con-

siderable volume of media time in which to denounce the anti-

fur movement generally.

BOOKS: In The Name of Science

December 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

In The Name of Science:

Issues In Responsible Animal Experimentation

by F. Barbara Orlans, Oxford Univ. Press (200 Madison Ave., NY 10016)

1993, 304 pages, $39.95.

Christine Stevens of the Animal Welfare

Institute describes In The Name of Scienceas being “writ-

ten for scientists by a scientist.” Stevens is technically

right, as Barbara Orlans is certainly a respected scien-

tist––a former heart disease researcher at the National

Institutes of Health, now a physiologist at Georgetown

University––and she is primarily addressing her col-

leagues. But Orlans’ lucid writing is easily accessible to

anyone who might read ANIMAL PEOPLE, and ought

to be read by anyone who wants to be conversant on the

use of animals in science.

Biomedical research, teaching, and testing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

The report in our November issue

that a George Washington University team

had cloned human embryos was in error,

based on an erroneous article in The New York

Times. What the researchers actually did was

achieve artificial embryonic cell division,

which creates the possibility of conceiving

twins via in vitro fertilization.

Veterinarian/astronaut Dr. Martin

Fettman on October 30 performed the first

dissections in space, assisted by Dr. Rhea

Seddon, aboard the space shuttle Columbia.

BOOKS: Stolen For Profit: How The Medical Establishment Is Funding A National Pet Theft Conspiracy

November 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

Stolen For Profit: How The Medical

Establishment Is Funding A National Pet

Theft Conspiracy, by Jude Reitman. Pharos

Books (New York), 1993.

[Reviewed for Rockydell Resources, a library informa –

tion bulletin; reprinted by permission.]

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