The Dangerous New Trend of Anti-animal Research Legislation

A new animal rights group is urging lawmakers to pass a series of bills targeting the use of laboratory animals in biomedical research. Just last week, a group of lawmakers, at the urging of animal rights group White Coast Waste, sent a letter calling for the release of information on retired research animals.The letter was mailed to the Department of Interior, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, the Smithsonian Institution, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Defense. "The adoption of former research animals is already a common practice across the United States. Research institutions work closely with staff and trusted adoption groups to ensure that specialized attention is given to devoted these animals the right home the first time," Michael Dingell, the Vice President of Government Affairs at the National Association for Biomedical Research, explained to ALN.