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What Price Mice?
Estelle A. Fishbein, BA,LLB
JAMA. 2001;285:939-941.
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Because they are dedicated to the elimination of the use of all animals in medical experiments regardless of the human cost, animal protectionist groups have moved vigorously to seek the assistance of the federal courts. Inspired by their taste of success in other areas, these groups are now attempting to make the use of mice, rats, and birds in biomedical research prohibitively expensive and extremely burdensome. This raises the distinct possibility that such research is in danger of experiencing the strangulation by red tape that is threatening medical research in the United Kingdom.1-3
The latest effort by animal protectionist groups is remarkably shrewd. In 1998 a recently established group calling itself the Alternatives Research and Development Foundation (ARDF), functioning under the umbrella of the American Anti-Vivisectionist Society, filed a petition for rulemaking with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) asking that the USDA cancel the longtime . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Author Affiliation: Ms Fishbein is Vice President and General Counsel, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
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