WIKIPEDIA, J M GARGA German initiative launched last week (September 6) aims to improve the public’s appreciation for the use of animals in science. The project follows on the heels of several others in Europe trying to raise the profile of animal research amidst criticism.
“This is a movement that has been sparked by decades of pressure against the use of animals in research by animal rights groups,” a spokesperson for the European Animal Research Association (EARA) told ScienceInsider.
Primate research is perennially controversial, but last year was notable in Germany, as pressure generated by an animal rights activist persuaded the head of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, to cease his primate experiments over concerns about animal care conditions.
The German effort, which goes by the name Understanding animal testing, offers up profiles of primate researchers and includes material on the ethics surrounding the use of nonhuman primates. Rainer Gaertner, who leads the German Association for Opponents of Animal Research told ScienceInsider the website was ...
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