AR-News: (NZ) Experiments on animals could quadruple in near future

[Animalconcerns]

Scientists believe that experiments on animals could soon rise to more
than a million a year because of the dramatic opportunities offered by
genetics.

The chairman of Massey University's animal ethics committee, Professor
Hugh Blair, told the NZ Bioethics Conference in Dunedin at the weekend
that New Zealand had come to the end of a "long honeymoon" during which
animal experiments had been slowly declining.

"With the explosion of information coming out of the genome projects, I
would suggest that in the next five to 15 years we are going to see an
explosion in the use of animals," he said. 

full story:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3549470&thesection=news&thesubsection=general

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