>Are You Giving Money to Undermine Medical Research? >PETA has posted a "do not give" list posted on its web site with more >than 80 medical research and patient assistance organizations >(www.peta.org/mall/cc/ccchartest.html). The list includes the Red >Cross, March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children's >Research Hospital, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Shriners >Hospitals for Crippled Children and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer >Foundation. Noting that health charities "do have relevant and effective >projects that help improve lives," PETA asserts that agencies sponsoring >animal research "drain money away from these projects and into cruel >experiments on animals" and that these research projects "have no >practical benefit to anyone."
This list and my investigation on the PETA site of all the organizations that do use animal testing, led me to wonder if there are any well-known research organizations that do not use animal testing. I was surprised, through a link of the PETA site (to the United Cancer Research Society http://www.unitedcancer.org/message.shtml), to find the following listed as pledging to do no animal research. It is claimed that the following organizations "adhere to the strictest guidelines, including no research involving animals or animal products." Some of these are obviously not primarily research organizations but it was difficult for me to believe that many of these do no animal research. USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles City of Hope, Duarte, California Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Grossmont Hospital Foundation, La Mesa, California Ronald McDonald's Children's Charities, Loma Linda, California M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Univ. of Texas, Houston, Texas AWWA Research Foundation, Denver, Colorado Saint Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles, California Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Durham, North Carolina Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, Califoria Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Univ. of Miami, Florida Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York Weizmann Institute of Science, New York Rick Froman Dr. Richard L. Froman Psychology Department John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone and voice mail: (501)524-7295 http://www.jbu.edu/sbs/psych/froman.htm --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
