An accusation, and a denial, of animal abuse
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Representatives of In Defense of Animals, an animal rights group, have held a protest on the main campus of Oregon Health & Science University to highlight alleged animal abuse at the university’s Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro. Willamette Week reports:
The protest was held as part of World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week (April 20-26) and is the first of others to take place each day this week at other area OHSU facilities. The complaints by IDA concern what activists claim is underreporting by researchers of primates’ levels of pain and distress on tests conducted without the use of analgesics, or pain relievers, at ONPRC....
According to OHSU spokesman Jim Newman, the center is required to report to the USDA any procedure that causes untreated pain; he says the center conducts no such research.... ‘If any procedure causes pain, the primate will be treated,’ Newman says.
Newman says In Defense of Animals is getting its facts wrong.