Will Israel Ban Monkey Exports to U.S.?

Israel’s attorney-general, Yehuda Weinstein, has told the nation’s High Court of Justice that it is illegal for a vivisection breeding farm to export their macaque monkeys to laboratories in the United States.

U.K. Activist Takes on the Big Vivisectionists

Steele makes the vivisection industry very nervous. He has almost single-handedly brought to a halt the trafficking of animals from abroad who are bound for laboratories in the U.K. His strategy has involved little more than encouraging people to flood the directors of the transportation companies’ with e-mails and letters.

U.K. Vivisection Slows as Shipping Companies Get Cold Feet

Growing pressure from animal protection groups in the U.K. has persuaded airlines and other shipping companies that it’s not worth their while to be involved in the trafficking of animals for vivisection.

Avon, Mary Kay and Estée Lauder Testing on Animals Again

PETA is reporting that all three companies have been paying for tests on animals in order to satisfy the requirements of the Chinese government.

Monkey Studies to be Stopped at Univ. of Toronto

Graduate students Erica Tennenhouse, right, and Amber Walker-Bolton were pleading for the last two monkeys in research at the Univ. of Toronto be retired to a sanctuary.

Lobbyists Try to Ward off Ban on Chimp Research

The Hill, Washington D.C.’s main newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress, is seeing a surge in lobbying activity from people in the business of doing experiments on chimpanzees.

Three Strikes!

Three times in just four days this week, major animal abuse industries have been forced into the open to defend themselves on national TV and radio.

Researchers Revolt at Larger Rat Cages

The National Institutes of Health is recommending (just recommending, mind you, not insisting) that the size of their cages be increased a little. The average rat family, for example, would get 210 square inches of floor space rather than the current 140. Mice would get a little more space, too.

Scientists Produce Monkey Chimeras with Multiple Parents

Researchers at the infamous Oregon National Primate Research Centre are applauding themselves for having basically “manufactured” a group of rhesus monkeys who were formed by sticking together embryos from up to six other rhesus monkeys who were in the early stages of their development.

Air Canada Wants Out of Monkey Business

Air Canada has been one of the few airlines willing to transport monkeys from inhumane overseas farms to vivisection laboratories in Canada. But the airline has been under increasing pressure to join other airlines in refusing to carry this kind of “cargo.”

The Beagle Freedom Project

The animal test subject of choice for many testing laboratories is the beagle. Beagles are bred to be friendly, docile, and trusting of humans, so they’re easier for technicians to handle as they force toxins into their blood streams on a routine basis, whether by injection, inhalation, or force feeding. Beagles usually don’t fight back.

Ricky Gervais Fights Beagle Experiments

Comedian Ricky Gervais has joined a campaign to stop Bantin & Kingman Universal Ltd. from building a large farm to breed beagles for experimentation.

Chimp Research: The End in Sight?

The good news is that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has accepted the recommendations of an expert panel to cut way back on using chimpanzees in medical research.

Happy Thanksgiving for Laboratory Beagles

Forty beagles landed at LAX after a long flight from Spain, where they’d been rescued from a vivisection laboratory. Thirty-two more had already been placed in homes in Europe. According to Gary Smith of the Beagle Freedom Project:

Dr. Murray’s Lawyers Ordered Experiments on Dogs

The online news magazine quotes a “source close to Dr. Murray” as saying that “a study was done on beagle dogs to determine how much Propofol would have to be orally consumed to cause death.

Disgraced Scientist Clones Coyotes

Disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-Suk has unveiled the results of his latest experiment: cloning coyotes.

Doris Day + Paul McCartney = Animals

Movie star Doris Day gives rare interview to pop star Paul McCartney. They’re both mega-stars. But more important to each of them is their concern for animals.

Here Comes the Sun!

They stopped at the open door. They stared out nervously for a moment. Then they hugged each other in delight and stepped gingerly into the sunlight.

‘I Am Not an Animal!’

While it doesn’t bother ethics experts much when genes are mixed from two non-human animals, it’s much more alarming when they create human-other chimeras.