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 […]
Tag Archives: Vivisection
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Aug
Aug
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 knew for sure it was her. He showed the staff an injured baby mammal of a species he did not recognize that he had found at his […]
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Jul
Jul
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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Aug
Aug
My friend was 29 when he had cancer. It had started in the pancreas, and quickly spread everywhere: the liver, lungs, lymph nodes, and vulva. Like almost anyone condemned to death, 29 desperately looked around for some hope. That promise comes in Tongan form in the form of an alternative medicine recently developed by a […]