Worst Laboratories in US and the Money From Public Funds
Worst Laboratories in US and the money from public funds – Ten worst laboratories in US From : From SourceWatch University of Wisconsin, The University of Wisconsin, Madison is home to the Wisconsin Primate Research Center (WPRC). The center keeps approximately 2500 primates, including 500 primates confined to isolation cages. Every year, approximately 850 primates are subjected to experiments. Emory University, Atlanta, GA Emory’s Yerkes National Primate Center houses 3000 primates and is one of the few institutions left in the US which still experiments on great apes. Yerkes has been criticized for primate housing conditions, addiction experiments, use of chimpanzees in viral infection experiments and refusal to deal publicly with animal testing issues. Emory’s are considered to be among the most physically and psychologically destructive experiments being conducted today. University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has a long history of Animal Welfare Act (AWA) violations. In September of 2005, UCSF paid 500 in fines to the USDA for over 60 violations. They included surgery on a ewe and her fetus without anesthesia or analgesia and leaving monkeys and lambs unmonitored after surgery. Also, forcing marmoset monkeys to breed continuously while nursing infants, causing health problems and high mortality. Monkeys also endured water deprivation, a craniotomy without painkillers and the injection of brain destroying chemicals in at least one monkey. University of California, Davis UC …
New Orleans Judge Paul Sens' rampant nepotism at Municipal Court: An editorial
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