ScienceInsider recently reported on critical workforce shortages at the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Beyond managing invasive pests, regulating genetically engineered crops, and certifying U.S. agricultural exports, the APHIS enforces the Animal Welfare Act (AWA; Pub. L. …
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The United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division, recently ruled that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated the Chimpanzee Health, Improvement, Maintenance, and Protection (CHIMP) Act for not retiring former research chimpanzees to a sanctuary. …
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The Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, has just announced that the NIH will no longer support biomedical research on chimpanzees. This decision follows the recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service final …
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Seven states – Iowa, Utah, Indiana, Montana, Kansas, North Dakota and Idaho – have enacted so-called ag-gag laws which make it a crime to produce undercover videos of animal abuse on factory farms. A recent Idaho district court decision from …
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Laws that ban or otherwise restrict the ownership of dogs based on their breeds, known as “breed-discriminatory legislation,” is the subject of a new CALI lesson. This one-hour lesson covers substantive due process, judicial scrutiny, the history of breed-discriminatory legislation, …
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