Self-Policing Animal Research: Another Bad Idea From USDA

By Delcianna Winders (May 25, 2018, 12:56 PM EDT) -- In 1966, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Animal Welfare Act after receiving more mail on the issue than civil rights and the Vietnam War combined. Public outrage followed high-profile media exposés revealing that scientists were purchasing lost and stolen pets for cruel and lethal experiments. Congress stressed that the AWA was needed because of "the shocking failure of self-policing" by the animal experimentation industry....

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