Subject: END OF ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION IN SIGHT?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:07:06 +0200
Animal rightists and animal lovers all over the world have been
campaigning against animal experimentation for decades and finally, it
looks as if the end could be in sight. Top officials from the U.S.
National Institute of Health (NIH) and Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) recently announced a five-year deal promising to share
technology, information and other resources that will improve the
toxicity testing of chemical compounds used in food, medicine and
other products using robots rather than laboratory animals.
At last, it looks as if years of campaigning are about to pay off.
Animal rights organizations have said they will continue to keep up
the pressure to ensure that the agreement between the NIH and EPA
really does mean an end to animal experiments.
campaigning against animal experimentation for decades and finally, it
looks as if the end could be in sight. Top officials from the U.S.
National Institute of Health (NIH) and Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) recently announced a five-year deal promising to share
technology, information and other resources that will improve the
toxicity testing of chemical compounds used in food, medicine and
other products using robots rather than laboratory animals.
At last, it looks as if years of campaigning are about to pay off.
Animal rights organizations have said they will continue to keep up
the pressure to ensure that the agreement between the NIH and EPA
really does mean an end to animal experiments.
Subject: Re: END OF ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION IN SIGHT?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:11:09 +0200
Jean-Kloot krabde zich op dinsdag 15-4-2008 op het hoofd en schreef:
> Animal rightists and animal lovers all over the world have been
> campaigning against animal experimentation for decades and finally, it
> looks as if the end could be in sight. Top officials from the U.S.
> National Institute of Health (NIH) and Environmental Protection Agency
> (EPA) recently announced a five-year deal promising to share
> technology, information and other resources that will improve the
> toxicity testing of chemical compounds used in food, medicine and
> other products using robots rather than laboratory animals.
>
> At last, it looks as if years of campaigning are about to pay off.
> Animal rights organizations have said they will continue to keep up
> the pressure to ensure that the agreement between the NIH and EPA
> really does mean an end to animal experiments.
Het zou mooi zijn als dit bewaarheid wordt.
A small step for the labaratories and a giant step for mankind.
--
www.carpenoctum.nl
> Animal rightists and animal lovers all over the world have been
> campaigning against animal experimentation for decades and finally, it
> looks as if the end could be in sight. Top officials from the U.S.
> National Institute of Health (NIH) and Environmental Protection Agency
> (EPA) recently announced a five-year deal promising to share
> technology, information and other resources that will improve the
> toxicity testing of chemical compounds used in food, medicine and
> other products using robots rather than laboratory animals.
>
> At last, it looks as if years of campaigning are about to pay off.
> Animal rights organizations have said they will continue to keep up
> the pressure to ensure that the agreement between the NIH and EPA
> really does mean an end to animal experiments.
Het zou mooi zijn als dit bewaarheid wordt.
A small step for the labaratories and a giant step for mankind.
--
www.carpenoctum.nl
Subject: Re: END OF ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION IN SIGHT?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:13:39 -0400
Jean-Kloot wrote:
> Top officials from the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH)
> and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced
> a five-year deal promising to share technology, information
> and other resources that will improve the toxicity testing of
> chemical compounds used in food, medicine and other products
> using robots rather than laboratory animals.
Safety pharmacology and toxicology testing (for new drugs anyways) is
mostly performed on rats, sometimes mice. And you really can't call
that "experimentation". It's more like verification that the new
drugs don't cause harm.
> Animal rights organizations have said they will continue to keep
> up the pressure to ensure that the agreement between the NIH and
> EPA really does mean an end to animal experiments.
Most "real" medical experiments are done on rats and mice, and some is
done using pigs and sheep. In other words - food animals. Animals
that we farm by the millions to eat them.
Perhaps you think it's better, that it's a more noble thing, that we
eat an animal - rather than learn from it.
> Top officials from the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH)
> and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced
> a five-year deal promising to share technology, information
> and other resources that will improve the toxicity testing of
> chemical compounds used in food, medicine and other products
> using robots rather than laboratory animals.
Safety pharmacology and toxicology testing (for new drugs anyways) is
mostly performed on rats, sometimes mice. And you really can't call
that "experimentation". It's more like verification that the new
drugs don't cause harm.
> Animal rights organizations have said they will continue to keep
> up the pressure to ensure that the agreement between the NIH and
> EPA really does mean an end to animal experiments.
Most "real" medical experiments are done on rats and mice, and some is
done using pigs and sheep. In other words - food animals. Animals
that we farm by the millions to eat them.
Perhaps you think it's better, that it's a more noble thing, that we
eat an animal - rather than learn from it.
Subject: Re: END OF ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION IN SIGHT?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:45:55 +0200
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:13:39 -0400, U <1@qwerty.org> wrote:
>Jean-Kloot wrote:
>
>> Top officials from the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH)
>> and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced
>> a five-year deal promising to share technology, information
>> and other resources that will improve the toxicity testing of
>> chemical compounds used in food, medicine and other products
>> using robots rather than laboratory animals.
>
>Safety pharmacology and toxicology testing (for new drugs anyways) is
>mostly performed on rats, sometimes mice. And you really can't call
>that "experimentation". It's more like verification that the new
>drugs don't cause harm.
>
>> Animal rights organizations have said they will continue to keep
>> up the pressure to ensure that the agreement between the NIH and
>> EPA really does mean an end to animal experiments.
>
>Most "real" medical experiments are done on rats and mice, and some is
>done using pigs and sheep. In other words - food animals. Animals
>that we farm by the millions to eat them.
Maybe this is how it goes in the Western world. But we must look
further than our own borders:
www.jean-kloot.com/pics/labcats2040.jpg
www.jean-kloot.com/pics/labcats2023.jpg
www.jean-kloot.com/pics/labcats2001.jpg
One photo was taken in a Japanese lab. And maybe if what is done in
the USA works, it will be copied by the Japanese.
>Perhaps you think it's better, that it's a more noble thing, that we
>eat an animal - rather than learn from it.
Killing an animal to eat it can be done without suffering by the
animal. Most lab testing can't be done by some kind of suffering. Not
that nothing is wrong with the meat industry, but that's another
topic. You can't cover one shit pile with the other.
>Jean-Kloot wrote:
>
>> Top officials from the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH)
>> and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced
>> a five-year deal promising to share technology, information
>> and other resources that will improve the toxicity testing of
>> chemical compounds used in food, medicine and other products
>> using robots rather than laboratory animals.
>
>Safety pharmacology and toxicology testing (for new drugs anyways) is
>mostly performed on rats, sometimes mice. And you really can't call
>that "experimentation". It's more like verification that the new
>drugs don't cause harm.
>
>> Animal rights organizations have said they will continue to keep
>> up the pressure to ensure that the agreement between the NIH and
>> EPA really does mean an end to animal experiments.
>
>Most "real" medical experiments are done on rats and mice, and some is
>done using pigs and sheep. In other words - food animals. Animals
>that we farm by the millions to eat them.
Maybe this is how it goes in the Western world. But we must look
further than our own borders:
www.jean-kloot.com/pics/labcats2040.jpg
www.jean-kloot.com/pics/labcats2023.jpg
www.jean-kloot.com/pics/labcats2001.jpg
One photo was taken in a Japanese lab. And maybe if what is done in
the USA works, it will be copied by the Japanese.
>Perhaps you think it's better, that it's a more noble thing, that we
>eat an animal - rather than learn from it.
Killing an animal to eat it can be done without suffering by the
animal. Most lab testing can't be done by some kind of suffering. Not
that nothing is wrong with the meat industry, but that's another
topic. You can't cover one shit pile with the other.