10 million is wasted on 70 animal experiments funded by ON. March of Dimes

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I knew I hated the Ontario March of Dimes but this is mind-blowing!Janice! http://www.pcrm.org/resch/charities/mod_overview.htmlMarch of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: An Overview REVIEWED BY PEGGY CARLSON, M.D., and KRISTIE STOICK, M.P.H.EXTENT, COST, and TYPES of ANIMALS USED The March of Dimes does not report the number of animals used per year. The March of Dimes uses many different species of animals, including primates, cats, dogs, rabbits, pigs, hamsters, ferrets, guinea pigs, sheep, and birds. A yearly list of approved grants is available from the March of Dimes. This list gives only a brief description of the experiment, and it is often difficult to tell from that if any particular experiment involves animals. After reviewing the grant lists for 2002, we examined

the experiments thatunquestionably employed vertebrate animals. The cost of these studies totaled more than $10.25 million for 70 experiments. The average cost of the animal experiments tallied was $147,000. Next, we reviewed the same grant list for the same year, this time looking for experiments that most likely involved animals but did not specifically list the name of an animal in the title or description. Including this new tally, the total amount of animal research for 2002 included 177 experiments, costing approximately $27 million. This may or may not include experiments involving tissues removed from live animals. Our estimates reveal that the portion of experiments funded by the March of Dimes that involve animals, when compared against the total number of research grants funded, is probably about 50 percent. If one were to conservatively estimate that 50 animals were used in each grant, over 8,000animals are involved in

March of Dimes-funded research each year. EXAMPLES of ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS FUNDED by the MARCH of DIMESSubstance Testing Experiments The March of Dimes has conducted animal tests of many substances, including alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, benzodiazepines, retinoids, benzene, and arsenite. Sex-Related Spatial Learning Differences After PrenatalCocaine Exposure in the Young Adult Rat (Levin)This study examined the effect of prenatal cocaine exposureon the learning performance of rats. Pregnant rats were givendaily injections of cocaine. The study found that fetalcocaine exposure impaired the spatial learning of femalerats, whereas the males showed no impairment of performance.In contrast to this study, a previous study by other authorsshowed prenatal cocaine exposure to result in males who wereimpaired and females who were unaffected in spatial learning.Lots More on

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All that money on housing, torturing and then eventually killing other living Beings unlike us, when they could use it to educate Humans on eating right, sustainability and more, but that would empower the people to make better healthy choices that could lead them away from these so called diseases~

Where are our great leaders anyway, all on anti-depressants of some sorts, synthetic heroin, ambien r2d2 or addicted to porn sites??

 

We just have to become our own leader "health ranger" by taking charge of our own destiny thru research on living a more fruitful and simper life wihout dis-ease, for this is the type revolution thats must occur for us to make it today without being spirutally bankrupt after we've lost our health and money for whatever unforeseen event in our fast food, GMO, 1000 minutes a month cell phone lives ~ I still see a LOT of adults, especially females that are raising families, eating fast foods, sodas, getting their children vaccinations, etc.... today?

 

crazy, really, i mean, you have to be really depressed,, unconscious, to eat something that doesn't have any nutritional value in it this age of the Internet~ Wealth comes from being as healthy as possible to me and out of debt or at least close to it~~

 

life is such a gamble now, one big fucking Vegas game for millions in this Country when we become ill~

 

 

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10 million is wasted on 70 animal experiments funded by ON. March of Dimes

 

 

 

I knew I hated the Ontario March of Dimes but this is mind-blowing!Janice!http://www.pcrm.org/resch/charities/mod_overview.htmlMarch of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: An Overview

REVIEWED BY PEGGY CARLSON, M.D., and KRISTIE STOICK, M.P.H.EXTENT, COST, and TYPES of ANIMALS USED

The March of Dimes does not report the number of animals used per year. The March of Dimes uses many different species of animals, including primates, cats, dogs, rabbits, pigs, hamsters, ferrets, guinea pigs, sheep, and birds. A yearly list of approved grants is available from the March of Dimes. This list gives only a brief description of the experiment, and it is often difficult to tell from that if any particular experiment involves animals.

 

After reviewing the grant lists for 2002, we examined the experiments thatunquestionably employed vertebrate animals. The cost of these studies totaled more than $10.25 million for 70 experiments.

The average cost of the animal experiments tallied was $147,000. Next, we reviewed the same grant list for the same year, this time looking for experiments that most likely involved animals but did not specifically list the name of an animal in the title or description. Including this new tally, the total amount of animal research for 2002 included 177 experiments, costing approximately $27 million. This may or may not include experiments involving tissues removed from live animals.

Our estimates reveal that the portion of experiments funded by the March of Dimes that involve animals, when compared against the total number of research grants funded, is probably about 50 percent. If one were to conservatively estimate that 50 animals were used in each grant, over 8,000animals are involved in March of Dimes-funded research each year.

EXAMPLES of ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS FUNDED by the MARCH of DIMESSubstance Testing Experiments The March of Dimes has conducted animal tests of many substances, including alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, benzodiazepines, retinoids, benzene, and arsenite.

Sex-Related Spatial Learning Differences After PrenatalCocaine Exposure in the Young Adult Rat (Levin)This study examined the effect of prenatal cocaine exposureon the learning performance of rats. Pregnant rats were givendaily injections of cocaine. The study found that fetalcocaine exposure impaired the spatial learning of femalerats, whereas the males showed no impairment of performance.In contrast to this study, a previous study by other authorsshowed prenatal cocaine exposure to result in males who wereimpaired and females who were unaffected in spatial learning.Lots More on website.Peace of mind begins when we stop thinking about how far we have to go, or how hard the road has been, and just let ourselves feel peace.

 

 

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