Science & Medicine
On the battlefield of animal research, vocabulary is a versatile weapon.
Sept. 6, 1987
World & Nation
Animal-rights proponents have a paradoxical and double-edged item on their current agenda: support of a bill now before Congress that would kill twice as many animals as it would “save” and which would raise the cost of medical research by about $70 million per year to boot.
May 3, 1987
Three decades ago, when the animal rights movement was just reaching into public consciousness, its adherents airlifted wild burros marked for death from the Grand Canyon, stopped the clubbing of baby seals and took to the high seas to fend off whalers.
April 12, 1990
Booster Shots
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April 2, 2010
University of California researchers, aided by new technological alternatives, have cut back sharply in the last few years on their use of animals for experimentation, a report prepared by the University of California said Friday.
April 30, 1988
Opinion
Is it possible to humanely experiment on beagles (or cats, monkeys, mice and fish)? Activists and researchers disagree.
Sept. 11, 2022
L.A. Unleashed
Aug. 23, 2008
Laboratory animals, including those obtained from pounds and shelters, are a “critical part” of human health care research and scientists are “morally obliged” to continue using them, according to a controversial report released Tuesday by a committee of the National Academy of Sciences.
Sept. 28, 1988
California
About 50 animal-rights activists held a candlelight vigil outside the home of a UC Irvine brain researcher Wednesday night to protest what they alleged was cruelty to animals, a charge a university spokesman denied.
April 22, 1993
Protesters opposed to the use of animals in medical research and demonstrators defending the practice proclaimed their disparate views outside UCLA Medical Center on Monday as the antivivisectionists kicked off World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week.
April 24, 1990