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cgod · 4990 days ago · link · · parent · post: It should be easier for me to give mice brain tumors.
Are things different in other countries, how about for researchers in the private sector? If they are then researchers in other countries would have a large competitive advantage over domestic researchers. I find the description of what you have to go through to sicken and kill a mouse ridiculous, but I also tend to be callous and pragmatic.
There are no animal control committes in Chinese research institutions. I did research in China for many years, I have never seen any researchers abuse animals. Even though the lab animals's enviroment over there is not as pristine as here, however it is soooo much better than the animals here restrained in the feedlot.
I will suppose the situation in the private companies is better.
Are things different in other countries, how about for researchers in the private sector?
I have done research in China, and there are almost no regulations there. There are good and bad sides to that. However, personally, I have never witnessed anything there that significantly differs with the animal work I've done in the US. I don't know about private industry. My research is at a publicly funded institution.
Outraged at this, I just ate a Big Mac. It was delicious, spite-filled, and I was not even hungry. I filled out zero paperwork.
Could one have an exterminator's license and eliminate pesty lab mice via glioblastomas? I'd expect it would be more environmentally sound than typical chemical pest solutions (that may encourage human glioblastomas in the first place).