Category: Animals in Research

VIVISECTION

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

Cruelty charges against Dr. Florintino
Sanguinetti, director of the Hospital de Clinicas Jose de
San Martin in Buenos Aires, Argentina, may be dropped
soon because the judge assigned to the case has failed to
schedule a prosecution, according to the Asociacion para la
Defensa de los Derechos del Animal. The case made inter-
national headlines in March 1990 when judge Omar Faciuto
joined ADDA in a visit to the hospital dog laboratory, and
found numerous dogs confined in tiny, poorly ventilated
cages, amid heaps of their own excrement. Faciuto imme-
diately ordered that the dogs be removed and the laboratory
be closed. It was the first time anyone in Argentina had
closed a laboratory via the courts. But that’s where the
action stopped. As of March 17, ADDA urgently requested
that letters be addressed to: Sr. Juez de lra. Instancia

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POUND SEIZURE FIGHT RESUMES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

The term “pound seizure” may be
unfamiliar to animal protection people who
have been involved for less than a decade,
but the battle over it is heating up––again.
The most bitterly fought issue in
humane work for decades, “pound seizure”
is the practice of laboratories requisitioning
dogs and cats from shelters for research use,
which is known to discourage many people
from surrendering animals to shelters. After
the National Society for Medical Research
formed in 1945 to promote pound seizure, it
became mandatory in Minnesota (1948),
Wisconsin (1949), and New York (1952).

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But it was a great appeal

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

A firm called In Vitro International enlisted the aid of
the Doris Day Animal League and the Animal Welfare Institute in
late April as it awaited a ruling from the U.S. Department of
Transportation as to whether a non-animal test it developed to mea-
sure chemical corrosivity could be used as a substitute for the tradi-
tional skin burn test on rabbits. Literature apparently originating
with IVI, reprinted verbatim by AWI and colorfully amplified by
DDAL, suggested that “tens of thousands of rabbits” would be sub-
jected to the painful skin burn tests this summer so that U.S. chemi-
cal manufacturers could comply with a voluntary international
labeling standard recommended by the United Nations and ratified
by DOT, to take effect on October 1.

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CHILDREN AND ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

The National Institutes of Health is now distrib-
uting seven sets of Let’s Visit a Research Laboratory Lesson
Plans free to public schools and to anyone else on request.
“Even though the Michigan Humane Society agrees with
legitimate uses of animals in biomedical research,” MHS
lobbyist Eileen Liska told U.S. Senator Carl Levin in a
recent letter of protest, “these are clearly an example of bla-
tantly one-sided pro-animal research propaganda, and as
such are an inappropriate use of tax dollars. The brochures
do not portray the scientific and ethical complexities of ani-
mal research. I have found a disturbing number of factual
errors in the texts. And also please notice how the refer-
ences at the end of each lesson plan are equally one-
sided––especially the frequency with which the National
Association for Biomedical Research and Foundation for
Biomedical Research are referenced. These are special
interest organizations with sizeable budgets for promoting
their viewpoint. There is no justication for allowing the NIH
to use limited federal funds,” supposed to be spent on pro-
moting public health, “to help such special interests.” The
lesson plans are available from Public Inquiries, National
Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Room 15C-05, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

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ANIMAL PEOPLE CRACKS CASE: USDA halts sales of Canadian dogs and cats to U.S. labs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Confirming leads gathered by ANIMAL PEO-
PLE editor Merritt Clifton during a 13-year probe, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture in mid-April sealed the Canadian border to imports of dogs and cats for
laboratory use. All Class B animal dealers known to have imported dogs and cats
from Canada were advised in writing that such animals cannot be certified as to ori-
gin in compliance with the Animal Welfare Act.
As many as 2,000 dogs and 6,000 cats have been imported from Canada
each year for resale by Class B dealers. Most come from privately operated pounds
that hold municipal animal control contracts––the majority in Quebec. Rural auc-
tions are another significant source, and still other dogs and cats are stolen.

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NABT president moves against dissection alternatives

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

RESTON, Virginia –– National Association of Biology
Teachers members’ comments were due April 1 on proposed major revi-
sions to the organization’s 1989 Position Statements on Animal Use. I f
adopted, the revisions would effectively overturn NABT’s policy of encour-
aging teachers to seek alternatives to dissection and vivsection.
The 1989 statement begins, “NABT believes that all biology teachers
should foster a respect for life,” and continues to state in the second para-
graph that, “NABT supports alternatives to dissection and vivisection
wherever possible in the biology curricula. These alternatives must satisfy
the objectives of teaching scientific methology and fundamental biological
concepts.”

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Vivisection

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

A page one expose in The New York Times on March 23 reviewed the mounting evi-
dence that animal testing is not a valid means of measuring human risk from exposure to tox-
ins––especially carcinogens. The Clinton administration is believed likely to reduce governmen-
tal reliance on animal studies in assessing public health risks.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on March 24 lifted a 16-year-old ban on the
use of female volunteers in drug safety testing. Imposed to protect unborn children, the ban had
the effect of exposing women to greater risks from new drugs––and increased the number of
female animals used in developing some drugs.

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Editorial: Listen, talk, dicker

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

Members of the ardently pro-vivisection Foundation for Biomedical Research got
quite a shock with their January/February 1993 newsletter. On pages four through six, the
editors extensively, respectfully, and congenially interviewed Henry Spira, the most effec-
tive antivivisection activist of our time and perhaps of any time. He’s not a household word,
because he doesn’t do big direct mailings touting his accomplishments, nor does he head a
multimillion dollar organization, or go on television regularly to shout about victories he
barely acknowledges, because he believes gloating is counterproductive. Still, working
virtually alone, with a miniscule budget, Spira has accomplished more over the past 17
years toward getting animals out of laboratories than any of the national animal rights
groups and antivivisection societies; perhaps more than all of them put together. The bio-
medical research establishment certainly knows his name, and significantly, some of the
most influential people in that establishment thought it was high time to open public,
friendly dialog––even if they got bashed for it by colleagues conditioned to view animal
use/protection as a war zone, a Manichean struggle between good and evil in which one
side or the other must ultimately be annihilated.

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Vivisection

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

Physicians for Human Rights on February 6 asked the American Medical
Association to lead a probe of how German medical doctor Hans Joachim Sewering, 76,
became president elect of the World Medical Association. Sewering,a member of the Nazi SS
from 1933 until 1945, is accused of complicity in sending 203 people, including children, to
their deaths at Eglfing-Haar, a
euthanasia site for the disabled.
Ironically, the WMA was formed in
1947 in response to Nazi medical
abuses.

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