Please tell your legislators to support the FDA Modernization Act here. Congress has three fundamental responsibilities: pass new legislation, fund the implementation and enforcement of the enacted laws, and establish taxes to pay for them. And that’s the sequence: authorize programs and then implement them. For instance, Animal Wellness Action (AWA) worked to ban animal … Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Center for a Humane Economy, Animal Wellness Action, the Michelson Center for Public Policy, and other affiliated organizations applauded U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, for soliciting and hearing testimony on the FDA Modernization Act, H.R. … Read more
Congress Can Reduce Pointless Animal Testing by Allowing Innovative Safety and Efficacy Non-Animal Methods for Assessing Drug Safety It wasn’t your typical highway crash. Surely, there was a dazed and injured driver after his speeding truck flipped on a four-lane highway. But the truck had a very large group of passengers in the rear. Nearly … Read more
Last year, deeply disturbing images and descriptions of ghastly tests on beagles for drug development — intentionally infecting them with parasites to test a vaccine in one experiment and cutting their vocal cords to reduce decibel levels because beagles vocalize pain in a separate laboratory exercise – reminded Americans about the painful cost of animal … Read more
The FDA Modernization Act is a Key Part of the Solution Deeply disturbing images and descriptions of ghastly tests on beagles — intentionally infecting them with parasites to test a vaccine in one experiment, cutting their vocal cords to reduce decibel levels because beagles vocalize pain in a separate laboratory exercise, and euthanizing the animals … Read more
Proponents of civil society no longer accept the moral premise that’s it’s okay to conduct painful or harmful experiments on their human brethren without their consent or understanding, even if insights we’d glean from them could in theory benefit the larger community. The Tuskegee experiments that started in the 1930s and persisted through the early … Read more
Legislation Aims to Get Safer, Cheaper Drugs to Patients More Quickly, Kick-Starting Innovation, Reducing Animal Testing, and Putting Best Test Methods to Work Washington, D.C. – Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, the Michelson Center for Public Policy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and other affiliated organizations applauded U.S. … Read more
FDA Modernization Act Can Deliver Game-Changing Results for Patients and for Animals Since 1938, the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FFDCA) has required animal testing for new drugs. In every and all cases. Hard stop. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) religiously requires the use of animals in testing even when its own scientists … Read more
Legislation Aims to Get Safer Drugs to Patients More Quickly, Embracing Innovation and Shedding Costly, Cruel, Non-Predictive Animal Tests to Revamp FDA New Drug Testing Protocols That Will Reduce Animal Testing and Enable Use of Most Scientifically Advanced Methods. Washington, D.C. – Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, the Michelson Center … Read more
Two years ago in November, voters in California approved a ballot measure to ban the sale of animal products that come from pigs, laying hens, and veal calves kept in cages or crates barely larger than their bodies. In Florida, the hub of the national greyhound racing industry, citizens voted to shut down the state’s … Read more