This category is about the issues involved in using animals for:
Drug and other testing
Education (including dissection)
Research
Animal Rights and Animal Welfare positions are both in evidence. Most sites subscribe to one of the following:
Total and immediate banning of all animal use
The Three R's: Refinement, Reduction, Replacement
PR sites to gain public support for animal testing
Article which puts forth arguments that the 3Rs are, in effect, pro-vivisection policies, and that vivisection must be abolished completely and immediately. From the New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society. www.nzavs.org.nz/3rs.html
Specialising in supplying ethically-obtained human tissue to commercial research and pharmaceutical companies. Online donor form. Cambridgeshire, UK. www.tissuebank.co.uk
Online database providing summaries of books and articles on waste, abuse, and alternatives to animals in research, testing, and education. Intended for animal advocates, students, reporters, legislators, scientists, policy makers in business and educatio www.alisdatabase.org
Not-for-profit website developed to display information about alternatives to skin irritation testing in animals. Abstracts from peer-reviewed scientific journals, thesaurus, acknowledgements, archives, background notes, bibliography, featured abstract l www.invitroderm.com
Worldwide directory of databases created as an international joint effort with ECVAM. From the Norwegian Reference Centre for Laboratory Animal Science and Alternatives. oslovet.veths.no/databasesintro.html
A Buddhist view of using animals for research and classroom dissection. Robert A. Leopold for Heartland Sangha in Illinois, US. www.heartlandsangha.org/dog.html
Analysis of interviews conducted June and September 1999. Includes link to full pdf report on Animals in Medicine and Science. UK. www.mori.com/polls/1999/mrc99.shtml
Articles and links concerning fraudulent and unscientific practices in medical research and product safety testing, including many about the use of animals. From Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research. New South Wales, Australia. www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/index.html
Extensive information about the treatment and killing of animals used in the name of veterinary education. Topics include animal rights, research, surgery alternatives, leather, and animal breeders. www.geocities.com/endthekilling/Welcome.html
Petitions, articles and press releases, 'Mad Science' awards, reports, genetic research and animals, statistics, factsheets and The Animal Act. UK. www.animalaid.org.uk/viv/index.htm
Searchable collection of information resources on care and environmental enrichment for animals kept in cages or used in research. www.awionline.org/lab_animals/index.htm
Policies, laws, certifications, grant information, and other resources pertaining to treatment of animals used for research by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. grants2.nih.gov/grants/olaw/olaw.htm
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