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| Author: | animal-friendly [ Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
The nearly 1,000 government owned chimpanzees are currently housed in five U.S. laboratories. While most of them are not being used in active experiments, they have been kept confined in cages at the labs, sometimes for decades, on the misguided belief by a few scientists that they may be needed for some catastrophic research in the future. Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/breaking-ne ... z21kKdInCI |
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| Author: | animal-friendly [ Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
"The legislation also corrects the pain and psychological damage that apes often experience as a result of needless experiments and solitary confinement. This bill would place these apes in sanctuaries, which would provide them with a more natural, comfortable habitat while saving taxpayer money." "Chimpanzees are no longer needed for research, yet we remain the only country besides Gabon to continue holding these animals in laboratories as possible subjects for invasive research," said Sen. Sanders. "I believe it is time to release these animals from the laboratories where they are currently housed and allow them to live in humane sanctuaries – a move that would create a sizeable savings to taxpayers." redOrbit (http://s.tt/1j2jE) |
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| Author: | Fosgate [ Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
If the costs outweigh the benefits of keeping them, so be it. |
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| Author: | Tim the Plumber [ Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
Why is this a political decision? If the lab has chimps it wants for experimental purposes it will need to find the money to house them. If they are not needed then the accounts department will ask what they are doing with them? Scientists are generally a decent bunch, particularly those in the bio-science fields. If there are chimps being used to further the knowleg of say Altzimer's disease(sorry about my speeelling) then the staff will do what is needed to get that information, sod the chimps. But if they are not needed then the scientists are as soppy as the rest of us and would not keep these animals in poor conditions just for the sake of it. |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
| Author: | Tim the Plumber [ Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
You have a strange way of organising science in your country. |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
| Author: | Tim the Plumber [ Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
Because the central government has direct ownership of laboritory animals rather than the various research organisations having their own stock with independant companies providing additional supply capacity. It's a privatisation thing. That is the way it's structured here. It might have been different before Thacher. It avoids polititians having to make decisions about how many chimps or mice to have as lab animals. Leave that sort of thing to the universities or pharmasuticle companies that want them. |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
| Author: | tommee [ Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
| Author: | Tim the Plumber [ Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
| Author: | tommee [ Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:50 am ] |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
| Author: | tommee [ Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Senate Committee passes bill to end chimp research |
| Author: | Ann Vole [ Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:53 am ] |
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