animal abuse / Animal Cruelty / Animal laws / Animal Rights / Animal Testing
May 6, 2023
NEWS AND OPINION: To compound their earlier failures particularly those of Liz Truss, the short-lived former Prime Minister, this dying conservative government has allowed the use of animal testing for cosmetics to protect the...
animal abuse / Animal Cruelty / Animal laws / Animal Rights / Animal Testing / cat abuse / cat welfare
April 11, 2023
I had no idea. I’m sure the same applies to almost everybody else. America was sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to Russia to conduct cruel animal experiments on cats and dogs. It has...
November 16, 2022
The Brits, including myself, have criticised the Chinese for their alleged lax attitude towards maintaining the highest standards of security at their Wuhan biolab in order to prevent the escape of zoonotic diseases into...
November 6, 2022
White Coat Waste Project (WCW) launched a national campaign almost 6 years ago to defund dog testing by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The campaign started soon after WCW released its first...
October 12, 2022
PETA usefully sets out the history of this grim and disturbing story of animal cruelty. They state on their website that the then Secretary of Defence, Casper Weinberger, permanently banned the shooting of dogs...
October 8, 2022
In the US, there was a requirement that drug manufacturers needed to test their drugs for toxicity on animals before they could be used on humans in clinical trials. A new federal law has...
October 8, 2022
NEWS AND COMMENT-CALIFORNIA, USA: In a marked advancement in animal welfare, California once again leads the way in America by banning animal testing on cats and dogs under a bill, Senate Bill 879, which...
August 19, 2021
NEWS AND COMMENT: The European Union through the European Chemicals Agency (ECA) have insisted that a German chemicals company, Symrise, conduct animal tests on two ingredients that are only used in cosmetics. They made...
July 25, 2021
COMMENT ON THE NEWS: In the UK the Home Office is the government department in charge of animal testing rather than the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs because there is a security...
May 16, 2021
This table comes from the sciencemag.com website. I feel the need to reproduce it verbatim in the interests of accuracy. It is a way of testing social intelligence in cats. It has been found...
March 15, 2021
$20 billions of taxpayer’s money is spent on animal testing in the US annually. It is (1) a wasteful use of precious tax-payers’ money and (2) it is damned cruel and (3) many animal...
December 6, 2020
NEWS AND VIEWS: CATS Act is an acronym for Cat Abuse in Testing Stops Act. It’s nice to know that the members of Congress who came together to introduce this proposed law thought about...
July 25, 2020
Experiments regarding incontinence and constipation (dysfunctional voiding) on domestic cats are taking place in America. They are cruel experiments and they are designed to research medical treatments for America’s military veterans who have been...
April 29, 2020
It is reported by nature.com that China has plans to build a network of between five and seven biosafety level 4 laboratories across China by 2025. They will be the same sort of laboratory...
April 22, 2020
The Washington Times has revealed something quite shocking in my opinion. They say that American taxpayers funded the purchase of cats from the notorious Chinese wet markets for medical research. And this has taken...
