By ARNOLD ARLUKE Animal Experiments: The great debate This week New Scientist launches a major series on the controversy that surrounds
scientific experiments on animals.
Not exact matches
«With the Government unwilling to include a ban
on the use of stray cats and dogs in the update of the
Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, the worry is that the number of experiments using animals may increase further in future years.
Animals (
Scientific Procedures) Act, the worry is that the number of
experiments using
animals may increase further in future years.
animals may increase further in future years.»
Last year, researchers started 3.2 million
experiments or «
scientific procedures»
on laboratory
animals, an increase of 35 000 over the number begun in 1990 and the first increase since 1976.
As we learn in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), the third installment of the series, Dr. Zira vivisected and
experimented on human captives, who in the movie year of 3955 are considered
animals and thus expendable in the pursuit of
scientific knowledge.
They've created a system called EnerCage (Energized Cage) for
scientific experiments on awake, freely behaving small
animals.
The U.S. continued to launch
animals for
scientific experiments but increasingly concentrated
on smaller creatures such as mice and insects, which are easier to care for and take up much less space (although two squirrel monkeys did ride
on the space shuttle Challenger's STS -51-B mission in April - May 1985.)
Study plan,
animal experiment approval by the institutional AWB and the Dutch Central Authority for
Scientific Procedures
on Animals (CCD), raw data as excel file and a summarizing report
on the study, biological samples.