My friend was 29 when she found out she had cancer. It had started in her pancreas and quickly spread everywhere: liver, lungs, lymph nodes, and womb. Like almost anyone sentenced to death at 29, she looked around desperately for some promise of hope. That promise came in the form of tong ren–a form of ...
There is no good reason for research labs not to utilize current non-animal testing modalities and develop more. Besides the obvious fact that extrapolation of data to allow for species differences is not needed in alternative testing, it is also faster and cheaper. A drug company in England called Pharmagene already uses exclusively human tissue ...
The first time I ran into Ali MacGraw was at the front desk of the Santa Fe Animal Shelter in 1997. I had to look twice before I could be sure it was her. She was showing the staff an injured baby mammal of a species I didn’t recognize that she had found at her ...
Scientists who defend animal testing have a built-in conflict-of-interest because they are paid to use animals for research. Most pro sided articles for vivisection are written by these scientists. Vivisection is a cruel practice that over 100 million animals are caught up in, worldwide, every year (Section 11). A lot of testing advocates try to ...
Imagine your best friend cramped inside a small prison. His cries and yelps can’t be heard because his vocal cords have been surgically removed. He paces around in his cage. Isolation has caused our four legged friend to go crazy. The bumpy steel floor hurts his paws due to the pacing. This companion has never ...
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