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Opposition to the 25-year-old law has grown over the last few years as groups such as the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) and the New England Antivivisection Society have generated strong public support for the law's repeal, Mariana R. Burt, the MSPCA's director of ethical studies, said last week...
Marianna R. Burt, director of ethical studies for the MSPCA, said yesterday that the group has introduced a bill in the State legislature to strike down a 25-year-old law that allows the pound seizures, adding that the bill would guarantee that pound animals are not used in lab work...
...MSPCA claims that pets are less suited for experiments than specially bred lab animals because they have a lower survival rate. But said, adding that the unknown condition of pound animals before they are caught adversely affect statistical results...
Experiments with pound animals are "clearly ethical" because they are painless and will ultimately benefit humans. Vatner said, adding that any animal killed in a laboratory would eventually be put to death by the MSPCA...
...experiments are entirely painless," Dr. Clifford A. Barger, Pfeiffer Professor of Physiology, said yesterday. In response to the MSPCA's charge of cruelty, Barger said that "as usual, their propaganda is wrong," adding that "they stretch the exaggerations, so put it mildly...