Stanford Animal Experimentation Transparency

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We, the undersigned, agree with the Stanford Daily Editorial Board's recommendations regarding animal experimentation on campus (as published in the March 2, 2006 editorial, "Blowing the Whistle on Animal Experimentation"). These recommendations are as follows:

"The Editorial Board suggests that the Animal Care and Use Committee take concrete steps to improve the general perception of animal experimentation on campus.

"First, the Committee should regularly publish the number of animals that are used in each laboratory.

"Second, it should make clear how many of these experimental animals are being sacrificed in the course of each year.

"Third, it should provide a list of representative procedures being carried out on these animals for instance, how laboratories probe brain activity in owls as part of their research.

"Fourth, the Committee should make clear the fines levied for violations of such regulations and indicate these amounts as a percentage of the laboratorys annual budget.

"All this information should be made easily available to the general Stanford community."

"[T]here must be more measures in place for violations to be reported in complete anonymity."

"[N]ew members joining a laboratory should be thoroughly briefed on the procedures of whistleblowing and informed of their larger responsibility to report violations."

Therefore, we the undersigned, demand that the Research Animal Facility, the Administrative Panel on Laboratory Animal Care, and/or the Dean of Research implement these reforms to improve accountability and transparency at Stanford University.

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    • We live in the heart of technological progress - stop abusing animals and start using technology that is a superior proxy for experiements on living animals!
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    • Teach Peace. How can we even think we are helping one when we are torturing another?
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    • I support the recommendations addressed in the petition to Dr. Bienenstock.
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    • test on people, not animals!
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    • suffering is suffering. End it now!
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