Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1988) / Chapter Skim
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Individual Statements by Members of the Committee
Individual Statements by Members of the Committee
Pages 81-88
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A1tTHUR C GUYTON This statement is made for two purposes: first, to express severe disappointment that our Committee Report fails to make clear how seriously the Animal Rights Movement and increasing government regulation are unpeding essential medico research; and, second, to record at least one Scenting vote against the implication in the Recommendations section of the main report that the present regulatory framework will allow a healthy future for medical research.
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From page 82... ...
However, in the last three years, there has been a proliferation of new government regulations requiring vastly expanded and costly roles for veterinarians as regulators of virtually all animal-bed biomedical research. This presumably has come about because thme government agencies that make the regulations (for example, the Inspection Agency of the Department of Agriculture)
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From page 83... ...
As a result, the Europeans have made very little contribution in certain types of medical research, for example in cardiovascular surgery, except when the research could be done on human bergs themselves. Therefore, the medicad research corrununity desperately needs strong help in combating both the Anunal Rights Movement and the growing regulatory bureaucracies.
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From page 84... ...
The reversed recommendation requested the Secretary of Agriculture to issue regulations under the Animal Welfare Act extending its protection to Ace, rats, birds and farm animals used for biomedical research. Ironically, for lack of application of the minimum standards of the Animal Welfare Act, conditions of extreme neglect and abuse developed in a rodent laboratory under the jurisdiction of a Comnuttee member.
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Yet: — a substantial proportion of NIH funds are dispensed for epidern~ological and cImical research much animal experimentation produces no significant results leading scientists have publicly criticized erroneous conclusions resulting from large-scale anneal experiments. These exemplify matters on which readers of the report should
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Mundane facts revealed in inspection reports of major research facilities by veterinary inspectors of the USDA are ignored. Typical findings of inspectors include: most rabbits without water excessive build up of manure and hair overcrowding moldy feed dogs with distemper piles of rodent droppings throughout building dogs standing in water rat holes numerous phenomenal number of roaches
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Such conditions for anneals are ~ source of uncontrolled variables that skew research results, thus wasting scientific effort ancI taxpayers' money. The only acknowledgment of this suffering ~ one sentence: "From time to time some few members of the scientific community have been found to mistreat or inadequately care for research anunab." The Executive Summary even waters down this feeble statement by omitting the word ~mistreat." A balanced report should recognize the severity and extent of the problem.
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