Court Rules Animal Lab Investigation Records Must Be Turned Over
Published September 23, 2009 @ 09:46AM PT
In Defense of Animals has just issued a press release regarding its years-long effort, beginning with a 2002 lawsuit, to get access to records from a USDA investigation into the notorious Huntingdon Life Sciences labs:
After a seven-year court fight, including the first trial in years involving the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been ordered by a federal judge to disclose 1,017 pages of records obtained during an investigation of controversial toxicology lab Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) to In Defense of Animals, the animal protection group said today.
“These records will shed light on the USDA’s failure to enforce the Animal Welfare Act,” said IDA Research Director Eric Kleiman. “Why did the USDA, later joined by HLS, fight so hard and so long to prevent the public from seeing these records? We’ll know within the 60 days ordered by the Court.”
The records – 503 pages withheld in full, 514 withheld in part (with most heavily redacted) – include test results, notes of observations of primates involved in toxicology testing, Animal Care and Use Committee minutes as well as necropsy reports and requests for veterinary care from six studies.
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Stephanie is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull.
What a sick world we live in. What science is there is abusing animals, boil them alive, making them injest toxins, having their brains wired, absolutely nothing. Nothing but a bunch of sick and demented, so called scientists, who get off on inflicting pain. Animal testing, world wide, should be banned and those conducting their so called research should be held legally liable. When is man going to realize that people do not have the same anatomy as animals. We know what's toxic, do we really need to inject it into an animal to see how much pain it endures. We are not civilized - the animals are more civilized than we'll ever be. One day, you'll be judged by your higher power - good luck.
Posted by Linda Keener on 09/24/2009 @ 01:19PM PT
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