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Animal welfare groups thrilled by Trump administration strides that Biden officials shut down
Just the News ^ | April 17, 2025 | Greg Piper

Posted on 04/19/2025 3:01:50 PM PDT by Twotone

Vote for Donald Trump and he'll make your wildest dreams come true.

Animal welfare groups find themselves in a real-life version of Napoleon Dynamite, as federal agency leaders appointed by the Republican version of the cult film's Pedro Sánchez enact sweeping changes they've been seeking for decades.

"It's hard to contain my enthusiasm" for Commissioner Marty Makary's announcement last week that the Food and Drug Administration is phasing out animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies, Animal Wellness Action and Center for a Humane Economy president Wayne Pacelle said in a press call Tuesday.

The Biden administration's FDA "seemed to be inert" on the issue, and even "obstructionist," after Pacelle's groups helped Congress remove mandatory animal testing through the FDA Modernization 2.0 Act in 2022, he said. "We liberated" Makary to act.

The FDA released its Roadmap to Reducing Animal Testing in Preclinical Safety Studies the same day, explaining how it will ramp up "scientifically validated new approach methodologies" such as "organ-on-a-chip systems, computational modeling, and advanced in vitro assays."

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: animalcruelty; animaltesting

1 posted on 04/19/2025 3:01:50 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

I wonder how they’re going to test veterinary drugs.


2 posted on 04/19/2025 3:07:14 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
"I wonder how they’re going to test veterinary drugs."

On the animals that comprise these violent gangs.

3 posted on 04/19/2025 3:10:43 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Twotone

Animal Welfare, not animal rights.

When I was at the People’s Republic of San Francisco State University, I tweaked more than a few Leftist skulls full of mush with a bumper sticker:

I Love Animals, They’re Delicious
P.E.T.A.

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals


4 posted on 04/19/2025 3:13:14 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Psalm 73

What about your own dog or cat?

Just as there is no perfect animal model for the human, I don’t believe there will be a foolproof computational one for humans OR animals.


5 posted on 04/19/2025 3:14:04 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Too much of what goes on with animal testing is just extraordinary cruelty. Like what Fauci did with those beagles. Any testing on a live animal should only be done if there’s no alternative, & kept to as few animals as possible.


6 posted on 04/19/2025 3:32:22 PM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Twotone






7 posted on 04/19/2025 3:35:28 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: Twotone

My guy and my hero.


8 posted on 04/19/2025 3:53:58 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: Twotone
That's generally the standard of the Animal Welfare Act.

Read William Russell and Rex Burch, ’"The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique".

The principle of ‘Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement’ goes back to long before the AWA was even enacted, and is the standard practiced by any legitimate and law compliant US Animal Research facility.

I've worked in one. I know how carefully they operate, and how strictly they are inspected by the USDA.

There are always rogues operating, especially outside of the US. But in all my years working in the field, I never saw cruelty or abuse.
9 posted on 04/19/2025 3:55:35 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Albion Wilde

Oh my Gawd, you are using AI generated memes. How dare you!
My pearl clutching, my pearl clutching!


10 posted on 04/19/2025 3:56:06 PM PDT by clutzyfuzzy
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To: Albion Wilde

Those are great! Especially that Pets for Trump one!


11 posted on 04/19/2025 4:07:02 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: Jamestown1630

“There are always rogues operating...”

Apparently with permission from our own gov’t functionaries.


12 posted on 04/19/2025 4:18:24 PM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Twotone
One small step for global health enforcement...

From https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7115783/

…This recognition underscored the need for an inter-disciplinary approach to dealing with transmission and was one of the main factors leading to creation of the One World One Healthtm movement. At a conference convened by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Rockefeller University in 2004, the movement gained its trademarked name and issued a call to action, embodied in the “Manhattan principles” for preventing emerging diseases in human and animal population and maintaining ecosystem integrity (WCS). By 2008, the UN Agencies and the World Bank had drafted a strategic framework, introduced at the “One World, One Health: From Ideas to Action” Conference in Winnipeg, Canada, in 2009 (PHAC, 2009). The premise of One Health is that people, animals and the environment form an interdependent ecosystem that needs to be considered in a coordinated manner (FAO et al., 2008, Frank, 2008). It rests on a conceptually simple model that focuses on contact – and therefore the potential for transmission of disease – between wild and domestic animals and humans (usually depicted as three overlapping circles) in the context of the environment.

This model has worked well as an advocacy tool to present the case for coordination in detecting and responding to outbreaks. It has also fostered discussions on the factors that are contributing to spillover of diseases from animals to humans, the first step in an outbreak. Most of the discussions to date about drivers of emergence (Daszak et al., 2000; A. Dobson and Foufopoulos, 2001, Karesh et al., 2012, Patz et al., 2004, Smolinski et al., 2003) have focused on anthropogenic land use changes – essentially resource exploitation (logging, mining, establishment of plantations, dam building) and associated road building and pollution. These factors are fundamental drivers of disease emergence in wildlife through their effects on habitat fragmentation, biodiversity and host-pathogen dynamics. A second set of frequently mentioned drivers focuses on movement of hosts and pathogens through travel and the transport and trade of animals and animal products. Finally, increased human-animal contact occurs because of increasing human population density and its consequences – encroachment of humans into previously undisturbed areas and the development of larger scale or more intensive animal production systems (Slingenbergh et al., 2004).

https://wildlife.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2018-10/OneHealthCh_JekelEpi%26PublicHealth%20copy.pdf

Past global health interventions have generally tackled a single region or a single disease, but One Health offers an integrative, holistic health systems approach that also focuses on “ upstream ” prevention rather than reactive response. Just as the World Health Organization (WHO) maintains a multifaceted definition of health as “ a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, ” so too does One Health attempt to address the many different social, environmental, cultural, and physical determinants of human and animal health. Although different interpretations of One Health exist, certain unifying characteristics remain the same across all applications ( Box 30-1 ).

More recent activity from 2024/25

https://onehealthoutlook.biomedcentral.com/

13 posted on 04/19/2025 4:27:40 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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To: Twotone

And not one of them probably voted for him


14 posted on 04/19/2025 4:29:53 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( All Democrats are pedophiles )
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To: Twotone

You’ll have to cite facts for me.

Where was the work that offends you done, how was it funded, who wrote the protocol.

(Documented facts, not just stuff you ‘saw on the Internet.’ I don’t know any of the facts, and I need them before I can comment.)


15 posted on 04/19/2025 4:32:42 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Twotone

Wayne Pacelle
If you’re thrilling this guy, you agree people should die instead of lab animals.

He calls himself an advocate of “animal welfare” which he defines as seeking the death of domestic animals and seeking the total separation of humans from animals. It’s a leftist religion which sees animal interaction with humans as profane.

“We’ve written before about how Pacelle, not long before he joined HSUS, said “I don’t want to see another dog or cat born” and “I don’t have a have a hands-on fondness for animals…there’s no special bond between me and other animals.” Pacelle also wrote that eating meat is “speciesist,” which is to say you’re discriminating against chickens by eating them.”
https://humanewatch.org/humane-society-of-the-u-s-ceo-i-dont-love-animals/

“Wayne Pacelle is the former president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), an extremist animal rights group that deceptively portrays itself as an animal welfare organization. Pacelle directed millions of dollars given to HSUS towards animal rights activism, launching attacks on farmers, hunters, circuses, meat-eating, and fur in the media, state legislatures, Congress, and the courtroom. Pacelle’s goal is to advance the vegan agenda of animal “liberation” by engaging in massive fundraising campaigns to raise the money necessary for his expensive and destructive attacks.”
https://www.activistfacts.com/person/3366-wayne-pacelle/


16 posted on 04/19/2025 4:41:12 PM PDT by Varda
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To: Twotone

Biden couldn’t be bothered, he had 300 million citizens to treat like lab animals.


17 posted on 04/19/2025 4:42:53 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Albion Wilde

Love the pics, but cats are the ultimate mercs. They’re literally all just waiting for their people to die so they can eat their faces. Cats...if you can pay them enough and give them the right weapons ... then cats are potentially most lethal presidential guard ever conceived.

Until someone shines a laser pointer to draw them away from the target. Then, in the words of that great sage, Bill Paxton, it’s game over man, game over.


18 posted on 04/19/2025 5:13:29 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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