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9 Info. Rep.: Animal Welfare Inst. 1 (1960)

handle is hein.animal/awiqu0009 and id is 1 raw text is: IfNFL ilTI ON January-February, 1960 HOUSING OF BEAGLES USED FOR BY FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTR Commissioner George P. Larrick of the Food Administration has announced that officials of are seeking to get authorization for a new kenn ing roomy individual runways for the beagles us term feeding tests. Under Commissioner Larri ous direction, a committee of administrators an has made a study of architects' plans of modern kennels and has visited the kennels at the Na stitutes of Health. The committee has decided on the beagles can most effectively be carried rural location, where there will be plenty of spac for runways and for laboratory facilities for a v and those scientists and technicians who will b with the dogs on a day-by-day basis. Humanitarians who have been following th ments which led up to this move on the part of and Drug Administration welcome this plan. urging Congress to authorize the new kennel a tory building immediately. Demand for this new project would have long since had there been a public awareness o ditions under which the test beagles are now kept years ago, in 1947, the laboratories of the Food Administration in Washington were inspected b tist visiting the United States. He was astonish that beagles used for long-term feeding tests w housed in small cages without exercise. He exp opinion that dogs so confined would not be phys normal after a period of three years, because t exercise would affect their metabolism. (At the Drug Administration laboratories, dogs are confine 30 x 36 for periods ranging from two to sev He questioned the accuracy of the tests of drugs ical additives which were being carried out on t because the dogs were in an abnormal conditio His comments apparently were not appreciat scientists in charge; over two hundred beagle kept for periods of two to seven years in the sub of the South Agriculture Building in 30 x 36 c which they are never removed for exercise. Lack and lack of space might have seemed for a time the makeshift nature of the kennels. However, manitarians and scientists were amazed when to light last month that Food and Drug Adm scientists had recommended that the same system without exercise or daylight should be perpetua proposed new $25,000,000 building which is to Food and Drug Administration. Public attention was drawn to the situation b (Continued on Page 3) ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE 22 EAST 17th STREET, NEW YORK 3, N. Y. Vol. 9 No. I TESTS MONEY FOR COMFORTABLE ANIMAL ATION HOUSING IN SCIENTIFIC and Drug INSTITUTIONS the agency Since 1956, Federal funds have been available to non- el provid- profit scientific institutions for construction, expansion ed in long and/or equipping research facilities, including quarters for ck's vigor- laboratory animals. A sum not to exceed $30,000,000 per I scientists year has been approved by Congress for this purpose for laboratory the years 1960, 1961 and 1962. The funds are available tional In- on a matching basis. that tests out in a Comfortable quarters for the animals used in research e available should be regarded by all institutions as morally obli- eterinarian gatory. All such animals should have decent space for e working exercise, comfortable resting places and sanitation ade- quate to prevent the spread of disease. The generous e develop- government provision for both construction and equipment the Food should make possible the elimination of bad animal quar- They are ters in many Universities and other research centers nd labora- wherever the will exists to give animals kind treatment. To assist investigators and others in initiating action to developed improve animal quarters, a summary of the provisions of f the con- . Thirteen and Drug y a scien- A QUESTION OF VALUE ed to find ere being Humanitarians throughout the country who have been ressed the demanding the abolition of cruel animal experiments in iologically the teaching of high school science were heartened by the he lack of splendid article A Question of Value in the February Food and Ladies Home journal by Dorothy Thompson. With the d to cages kind permission of the Ladies Home Journal, a reprint of en years.) the article is enclosed. Readers are urged to call this to and chem- the attention of their local school principals and science hese dogs, teachers. n. Commenting on the article, the New York Daily News ed by the stated editorially on February 1: s are still -basement CRUELTY TO TEEN-AGERS :ages from ofe funds We'll second, heartily, Dorothy Thompson's motion in of funds to explain the current (February) Ladies' Home journal that the both hu- spreading practice of experimentation on live animals in it came U. S. public high schools be stopped cold. inistration It seems that in more and more biological classes live of caging mice, rats, rabbits, kittens and other animals are starved, ted in the or kept lingering on unbalanced diets, or injected with house the cancer cells, or actually dissected while more or less under anesthetics administered by inexperienced young people. y a news- These experiments produce no new scientific knowl- edge-as do some experiments conducted by scientists who

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