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Animal Welfare Act and Regulations
Questions and Answers about the Animal Welfare Act and Its Regulations for Biomedical Research Institutions.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/legislat/usdaleg1.htm
PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
An activist group seeking to end animal explitation in all its forms.
Scientists Center for Animal Welfare
The Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW) is a non-profit educational association of individuals and institutions whose mission is to promote the best practices of humane care, use, and management of animals involved in research, testing or education in laboratory, agricultural, wildlife or other settings.
National Animal Interest Alliance
NAIA works to provide the public with factual information about animal issues; especially those issues that are complex, misunderstood or controversial. They are a moderate organization that supports ordinary people and professionals. Library of many informative articles.
Laboratory Animal Welfare
Learn about animals in research, testing, and education. Bringing thoughtful analysis to the public debate about animals in laboratories.
http://www.labanimalwelfare.org/
Animal Agricultural Alliance
Vision
Feeding a hungry world through responsible animal agriculture.
Mission
Support and promote animal agriculture practices that provide for farm animal
well-being through sound science and public education.
http://www.soundagscience.org/principles.html
American Medical Association
Physicians dedicated to the health of America.
Type in animal rights, testing, or welfare to get a list of related articles.
The Nature of Wellness
The Nature of Wellness is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization seeking to inform the public about the medical and scientific invalidity and counterproductiveness of animal experimentation and the massive damages it causes to our health, environment and economy. The objective of The Nature of Wellness is to help bring about the total and permanent abolition of the practice of animal experimentation, also known as vivisection.
http://www.animalresearch.org/
The American Zoo and Aquarium Association
Founded in 1924, the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, now known as the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA), is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of zoos and aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation. AZA's vision is to work cooperatively to save and protect the wonders of the living natural world.
Food and Drug Administration
FDA's mission is to promote and protect the public health by helping safe and effective products reach the market in a timely way, and monitoring products for continued safety after they are in use. Our work is a blending of law and science aimed at protecting consumers.
American Veterinary Medical Association
AVMA - Policy and Guiding Principles on animal welfare and animal rights and positions on a variety of issues.
Stop Animal Testing - A PETA Investigation
This site will give you the information that you need to help the millions of animals suffering in chemical toxicity tests.
http://www.stopanimaltests.com/
Proctor and Gamble
P&G helped fund the first International Conference on
Validation held in 1990. That same year the company also joined the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) and Animal Rights International in sponsoring a feasibility
study on data sharing opportunities among companies to help reduce the need
for animal testing.
Factory Farming
Factory farming is an attitude which regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit. In animal agriculture, this attitude has lead to institutionalized animal cruelty, massive environmental destruction and resource depletion, and animal and human health risks.
http://www.factoryfarming.com/
Animal Welfare Information Center
Providing information for improved animal care and use in research, teaching, and testing.
Poultry.org
Poultry.org exists to educate consumers about animal suffering and other deleterious consequences of the poultry industry.
The Trojan Horse of Animal Protectionism
CFAAR/San Diego is a non-profit, pro animal research group of San Diego County physicians, Veterinarians, Scientists, students, research staff and concerned citizens, who are interested in educating the public about the use of animals in research and teaching and about the regulations that govern the humane treatment of research animals.
http://www.netcat.org/trojan.html
Alternatives to Animal Testing on the Web
A list of articles and links.
http://altweb.jhsph.edu/topics/pain.htm
International Institute for Humane Education
Creating Lasting Social Change through Compassionate Choices for the Earth, Animals and all People. Links, links, links!!
http://www.compassionateliving.org/links.htm
What's Wrong with Animal Rights?
An article discussing the biblical perspective, ivory, fur, and leather, vegetarianism and diet, confinement and training of animals, and inconsistencies of the argument.
http://www.dianedew.com/animals.htm
Free the Animals
Dedicated to animal liberation, supportive of direct action to end animal cruelty, and working to educate about the suffering of animals for food, sport, clothing, entertainment, and experimentation.
http://www.freetheanimals.homestead.com/index.html
The Vegan Society
"Seeking ways of living free from the use of animal products – for the benefit of people animals & the environment."
http://www.vegansociety.com/index.html
Beef.org
Links to Cattlemen's Beef Board, Cattle-Fax, American National Cattlewomen Inc., US Meat Export Federation and Beef Council and cattlemen's Association.
American Association of Pharmeceutical Scientists
US Poulltry and Egg Association
Our focus is research, eduaction, and communication.
FARM - Farm Animal Reform Movement
A national, tax-exempt, educational organization advocating a plant-based diet and humane treatment of farmed animals through eight grassroots programs. It operates from the nation's capital with a staff of eight, through a grass-roots network of more than one thousand activists in all 50 states and several Canadian provinces.
http://www.farmusa.org/index.htm