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Indistinct figures pad through the windowless corridors of Northwestern University’s animal facilities in Chicago. Only their eyes peer out from the layers of surgical masks, gloves, shoe covers, head covers and long, wide laboratory coats as the scientists here care for the animals they use for research.
Government funded facilities, such as Northwestern, must follow instructions in the “Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals,” but for the first time in more than 10 years, some of the directives may change.
The Institute for Laboratory Animal Research is planning updates of the guide and will welcome public opinion in an open forum at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago on Friday from 9 a.m.-noon.
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NW Animal Facilities – Oh, so there will be a Kinder Cruelty of Animals going on here? No amount of pristine facilities or the absurd notion that these animals will not experience terror, pain and probable agonizing death – and if they survive the experiments, an undeserved death. Nothing short of Legalized animal cruelty , funded by government (our tax dollars). How many dogs, for instance, have actually been “adopted” out – if they live through the torture, misery and crime of being swept from the earth into the hell holes of laboratory experiments? Disgusting, shameful cloud over our nation.
But what about potentially life-saving medical research?