NEWS ARCHIVE - March 2005

23 March 2005
SEC rules in PETA's favour in disputes with corporate giants
PETA Media Centre - US
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ruled that at their upcoming annual meetings, General Electric, Dow Chemical, 3M, Johnson & Johnson, and Schering-Plough must allow shareholders to vote on PETA’s shareholder resolutions to replace painful and deadly animal testing with modern, humane alternatives.

23 March 2005
Researchers launch animal testing inquiry
Guardian - UK
An inquiry into the use of monkeys in medical and biological research - and whether they can be replaced - was launched today by four leading UK research bodies.

23 March 2005
Vivisection under microscope
C4 News - UK
In the first study of its kind, the science community weighs up testing on primates. Animal rights campaigners want a ban on experiments on all primates. Campaigners point to the fact that vivisection on chimpanzees has already been banned because they are deemed too similar to humans.

20 March 2005
MPs say lift ban on reproductive human cloning
The Observer - UK
In a report into human embryo research in Britain, the commons science and technology committee will suggest that human embryos could be implanted into animals for research purposes.

17 March 2005
French Challenge to Animal Cosmetics Tests Ban Fails
Scotsman.com - UK
Attempts to de-rail a Europe-wide ban on the testing of cosmetics products on animals suffered a legal setback today. A French government challenge to the law, due to come into force in 2009, was rejected by an Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

17 March 2005
Stop animal testing; save money
Lake County, CA - US
No law requires household products and cosmetics be tested on animals, but the EPA, FDA and CPSC "urge" them to conduct these tests, government "regulations" (an authoritative rule) continue to require poisoning animals to see if they develop cancer.

16 March 2005
Crucial or cruel?
Union Tribune, San Diego - US
Has science progressed beyond the need for animal testing? Each year, more than 20 million animals are used in biomedical research projects, according to the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS). For most of these creatures, their lives will last only as long as the experiment. Maybe less.

15 March 2005
Are you a man or a mouse?
The Guardian - UK
Scientists injected human brain cells into mouse foetuses, creating a strain of mice that were approximately 1% human. Weissman is considering a follow-up that would produce mice whose brains are 100% human.

09 March 2005
Peta urges president bush to go behind the scenes at animal labs at battelle memorial institute
PETA Media Centre - US
After learning that US President George W. Bush is planning to visit Battelle Memorial Institute to make a statement about his new energy policy, PETA sent a letter to the president, urging him to visit the facility’s animal laboratories and discover what goes on behind the scenes during government-funded toxicity tests on dogs, rabbits, and other animals.

07 March 2005
'Stuart Little' mouse soon to have a human brain
keralanext.com
In one of the most controversial scientific projects ever conceived, a group of university researchers in California's Silicon Valley is preparing to create a mouse whose brain will be composed entirely of human cells.

06 March 2005
Sheep might be dumb ... but they're not stupid
The Observer - UK
Studies show that farmyard animals have a range of emotions and a sharp intelligence. Creatures caricatured as mindlessly dumb can feel emotions usually associated with humans, such as jealousy, love and loss.

06 March 2005
Blair seeks to boost UK as centre for biotech research
FT.com - London
Tony Blair, UK prime minister, will on Monday highlight his determination to promote Britain as a centre for life sciences, awarding more than £1bn to stem cell and other biotechnology research, under a three-year £10bn spending plan for science.

04 March 2005
Of mice, men and medical concern
FT.com - London
Two huge industries affecting the lives of millions of people are currently subject to big health alerts. Concern over serious side-effects has cast a long shadow over promising new painkillers, known as cox-2 inhibitors, developed by the pharmaceutical industry.

03 March 2005
US Military Building Pain Ray
Betterhumans - Canada
The US military is funding the research and development of a weapon that could be used to inflict excruciating pain from up to two kilometers away, but is meant to otherwise leave victims unharmed. A review of the nonlethal weapon by the US Naval Studies Board in 2003 concluded that PEPs produced "pain and temporary paralysis" in animal test subjects.

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