Dear university student:
The Animal Research Issues section of The Humane Society
of the United States (HSUS) is seeking two committed student activists
to help us with our projects. Specifically, we seek one person to work
on each of the following assignments. We will pay you for these
services.
1) Investigate animal research being conducted at your
university/college that may involve significant levels of animal pain
and/or distress
This assignment relates to our ongoing Pain & Distress
(P&D) Initiative, which seeks to eliminate animal pain and distress in
laboratories. Like most scientists, we look forward to the day when
animals are no longer used in research. In the meantime, while animals
continue to be used, we are working on many fronts to see that animal
P&D are addressed to the fullest. This includes establishing clear
definitions of P&D, getting research scientists to better recognize and
respond to P&D, promoting refinement methods of research that minimize
or eliminate P&D, and identifying research projects that cause high
levels of P&D so that we can address them. It is this latter task for
which we seek your help.
2) Survey course-based animal-use and policy at your
school
This assignment relates to our ongoing efforts to
eliminate consumptive uses of animals in university classrooms.
Universities purchase large numbers of vertebrate animals from
biological supply houses each year. These animals are then used for
dissections and invasive live animal procedures in courses in a range of
disciplines (e.g., biology, zoology, physiology, pharmacology, medicine,
veterinary medicine). There are abundant alternative methods that can be
used to either replace or reduce these animal uses, but for a variety of
reasons are not currently being made available. We need to identify
courses that are using animals, and how they are being used, so that we
can act on making alternatives available in these courses.
If you are interested in committing some of your time to
helping us with either of the above projects on your campus, we will pay
you up to $500 for your efforts (depending on the size of your school,
and the resulting scale of your assignment). Please reply to this e-mail
with a telephone number and good times to reach you, and we will contact
you to discuss what sort of work arrangement might be made.
For the animals,
Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Education
Animal Research Issues
The Humane Society of the United States
Ph: 301-258-3046
Fx: 301-258-7760
http://www.hsus.org/programs/research/animals_education.html
http://www.hsus.org/programs/research/monograph.html
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