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NIH “Anticipates” End to Bad Relationship
Animals in Laboratories, Companion AnimalsThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) finally took steps to end the use of Class B dealers by its outside researchers, after years of pressure from Congress and animal welfare...
One Step Forward and Two Back for Endangered Species
Terrestrial WildlifeIn a rare victory for endangered species, the House adopted a floor amendment to the FY 2012 Interior appropriations bill offered by Reps. Norm Dicks (D-WA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Mike...
Roommates Wanted: USDA Tells Labs to Take Primates Out of Solitary
Animals in LaboratoriesThe national meeting of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) in San Diego featured a description of the many ways to modify existing caging and employ social introduction...
Using Chicken Eggs to Unyoke Rabbits in Research
Animals in LaboratoriesIn a presentation at the AALAS meeting, J. Hau from the University of Copenhagen described an interesting work in progress, the replacement of the rabbit with a free-range, free-will chicken...
USDA Closes Loophole in Horse Transport Rules
Companion Animals, EquinesThe USDA has amended regulations designed to reduce the suffering of horses transported for slaughter so as to include horses who are first transported to intermediate collection points. The regulations,...
Downer Case Headed to the Supreme Court
Farmed AnimalsThe US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case brought by the meat industry challenging California’s downed animal law (California Penal Code § 599f). The law was enacted in the...
Farm Animal Regulations Established in Ohio
Farmed AnimalsOhio's new farm animal care regulations went into effect in September. Ohio follows New Jersey as only the second state to establish legal standards for the treatment of animals on...
Why Were All of the Eggs Put in One Basket?
Farmed AnimalsThe United Egg Producers (UEP) and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) announced in July that they had reached an agreement to phase in modifications to conventional battery...
Alaskan Officials in Hot Water
Marine WildlifeA federal grand jury indicted Maggie Ahmaogak, the former executive director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC), in September. She is accused of diverting approximately $475,000 of AEWC funds...
American Eel May (Someday) Get Federal Protection
Marine WildlifeThe US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently reported that the American eel, a fish found in freshwater systems in the eastern US, may be at risk of extinction, and thus...