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Problems In Transportation Of Animals, Alice M. Wagner
Problems In Transportation Of Animals, Alice M. Wagner
Animal Welfare Collection
This afternoon we are considering the problems involved in the transportation of animals. Undoubtedly we have all had people problems as we travel by car, train and by air, and with the increase of travel things seem to be growing worse instead of better. I commuted from my home in New Jersey to Philadelphia for 18 1/2 years - a round trip of five hours - so I know plenty of things that can happen in transportation and commutation.
So it is with animals. An increasing number of animals are being shipped - shipped as pets, shipped as meat animals, …
Protection For Animals In Biomedical Research, F. L. Thomsen
Protection For Animals In Biomedical Research, F. L. Thomsen
Laboratory Experiments Collection
Our conclusion from all of this work and study is that not just a small part, but that most of the suffering undergone by laboratory animals in "unnecessary" under the terms of the pain provisions of the Rogers-Javits bill. Granted, it will take some time and effort to bring about the necessary interpretations of these provisions. The Act, when passed, offers us the medium through which to obtain such interpretations.
This unnecessary suffering results mostly from the indifference, and from the inertia and the lack of proper scientific training and technical knowledge, of many of those conducting laboratory animal experiments …