Organs-on-chips or organ-on-a-chip has the potential to dramatically reduce animal testing. If this comes to pass it will be a wonderful day for millions of animals and animal advocates. “This is the idea of replacing animals for drug testing with … Continue reading →
ARS stands for Agricultural Research Service. It is part of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). You may remember the sad and unpleasant story that went viral about the USDA using cats, young cats we were told, to research toxoplasmosis. … Continue reading →
The whole ghastly process is horrible from whatever angle you look at it. A while ago I wrote about the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) using young cats to conduct animal testing experiments in order to study the parasite … Continue reading →
This is an interesting ethical dilemma, on the face of it. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon voted against the introduction of legislation that would extend protection for babies born alive during an abortion procedure. The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection … Continue reading →
You may remember the furore over the USDA’s use of cats in animal testing when researching the Toxoplasma gondii infection. They did this over about 50 years and almost 3000 cats were used in the research program. Need to Euthanize? … Continue reading →
A University built an enriched environment for cats in a contraceptive vaccine research study. This is a novel and welcome approach to using cats in research programs. We are used to seeing cats in cold, sterile environments and killed at … Continue reading →
Why do animal testing laboratories have to be forced to adopt out the cats that they have abused? The norm is to kill (euphemism: euthanize) cats after they have been tested upon. I don’t understand it. Most of the time … Continue reading →
I had no idea that it cost that much to carry out cruel and unnecessary animal experiments on kittens. There is a bizarre contrast between the expense and the vulnerability of the kitten victims. Having written about this before I … Continue reading →
Toxomplasmosis is a treatable condition in humans and cats and most often asymptomatic. And yet the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) have just revealed to ABC7 that the American taxpayer has funded the killing of almost 3,000 cats at … Continue reading →
This is a video from PETA’s Twitter feed. I don’t think that I need to add words to be frank. The video is poignant and says it all. How anybody on this planet can support animal experimentation is remarkable and … Continue reading →
