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UCSF - 20 Years Of Animal Welfare Violations
posted on October 1, 2005
Throughout the 80s Lifeforce was the main organization investigating vivisection laboratories at home and abroad. Lifeforce Founder, Peter Hamilton, documented animal exploitation and violations of the minimal "standards". With extensive photographs and video he uncovered many hidden vivisection abuses. Several videos were produced to raise public awareness. Our documentation was presented to US government and enforcement agencies.
Lifeforce assisted in the investigation of primate research in Silver Spring. Maryland that led to the first charges against a US researcher. Lifeforce also laid the first private prosecution against a Canadian researcher who restrained wild caught baboons for four months. The use of baboons in his heart research was stopped.
In September, UCSF agreed to pay $92,500 to settle a complaint by filed last year by the US Department of Agriculture alleging 75 violations of the Animal Welfare Act in their animal labs between 2001 and 2003.
Among the USDA's complaints were gross loss of weight in primates subjected to "water restriction" so they would perform tasks\; not administering adequate pain relief and performing a craniotomy on a monkey without post-surgical analgesia.
Lifeforce investigations in the 80s included UCSF and other UC facilities. It has been over twenty years and the abuses continue. The peer review system has failed to protect animals. The continued use of animal models wastes scarce health care funds.
(see Lifeforce Better Living section "Health Care and Research")
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