#animal-testing

#animal-testing

Science is a slaughterhouse. We rarely acknowledge the degree to which animal life underwrites the research that provides us with medicines, or the regulation that keeps us safe. Live animals were used in 2.64m officially sanctioned scientific procedures in the UK in 2024, many of them distressing or painful and many of them fatal. But the government's new strategy to phase out animal testing published earlier this month suggests that in the near future emerging technologies

This year, the White House has broadcast its intent to greatly reduce animal experimentation in the United States. In early April, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would require less testing on animals for the development of a widely used class of drugs-an approach, the agency says, that should speed up the drug-development process and eventually lower drug prices.

"Nobody in our country of animal lovers wants to see suffering and our plan will support work to end animal testing wherever possible and roll out alternatives as soon as it is safe and effective to do so," he said.

The monkey jailbreak went viral: it was the day after the election, and the divided nation was eager for distraction. How did the macaques make it out? The escape quickly became politicized. In a new investigation, the New Yorker staff writer Ava Kofman reports from the small town of Yemassee, South Carolina, about the macaque mass exodus-which fuelled an unlikely alliance between animal-rights proponents and the MAGA movement.

A sci-fi fable, The Motion, is a heated debate on animal testing that slips down a kaleidoscopic rabbit hole where the audience equipped with voting cards becomes an accomplice. Shotgun Players' Artistic Director Patrick Dooley directs the world premiere from the Bay Area playwright Christopher Chen, an Obie Award winner. Shotgun Players The Motion, starts Sept. 13, Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Ave. Tickets online or at (510) 841-6500 ext. 303. Pay-what-you-can tickets and special pricing available.

Current efforts to destroy science and slash research funding undermine my ability to provide continued support for nonhuman primate research at UMass. As we are completing a large study to help women with breast cancer live a better life, I have taken the decision to no longer seek funding to support a marmoset colony at UMass.

The offspring of two male mice have had their own pups, but the invasive pseudoscience that achieved this result is nothing to celebrate.