Event Title
Panel 2B: Animal Experimentation: Litigation, Activism, and Ethics
Start Date
13-9-2014 10:55 AM
End Date
13-9-2014 12:10 PM
Description
This panel will include a current overview of the socio-legal status of animal research & experimentation, why it's important, and potential avenues for reform and/or involvement. Speakers will explore issues of advocacy both within and outside the courtroom as well as policy and ethical considerations.
Larry Carbone is a veterinarian with a specialty practice in the care of laboratory animals. In addition to his doctorate in veterinary medicine, he has specialty certification in Animal Welfare, and holds a PhD in History of Science. He has written and lectured on the ethics and regulations of working with animals in laboratories. His book, "What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy" [Oxford University Press, 2004] examines the history, ethics and scientific questions that shaped the modernization of the United States Animal Welfare Act in the 1980s.
Christopher Berry develops ground-breaking civil litigation as a Staff Attorney for the Animal Legal Defense Fund where he specializes in using consumer law to contest animal industry greenwashing, administrative law to hold government bodies accountable when they fail to protect animals, and civil actions to ensure corporate compliance with animal protection standards. He has successfully resolved lawsuits against a factory farm for misrepresenting its treatment of hens, against the Food & Drug Administration for withholding valuable public information about egg production facilities, and against an industrial chicken and duck hatchery for unlawful business practices that violated the animal cruelty law.
PETA Senior Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo is responsible for uncovering abuses in laboratories, working with whistleblowers to expose violations of animal protection laws, seeking prosecution of animal abusers by federal and state agencies, and replacing animals in laboratories with modern, non-animal methods of experimentation. A veteran of PETA, Kathy was originally hired to head PETA’s cosmetics-testing campaign in 1989 and spearheaded efforts to persuade major corporations—including Estée Lauder and Gillette—to declare permanent bans on all animal tests. Kathy’s 1993 book Monkey Business: The Disturbing Case That Launched the Animal Rights Movement details the cruelty case that first brought then-fledgling PETA into national prominence. The landmark Silver Spring monkeys case also led to the first-ever conviction of an animal experimenter on cruelty-to-animals charges.
Panel 2B: Animal Experimentation: Litigation, Activism, and Ethics
This panel will include a current overview of the socio-legal status of animal research & experimentation, why it's important, and potential avenues for reform and/or involvement. Speakers will explore issues of advocacy both within and outside the courtroom as well as policy and ethical considerations.
Larry Carbone is a veterinarian with a specialty practice in the care of laboratory animals. In addition to his doctorate in veterinary medicine, he has specialty certification in Animal Welfare, and holds a PhD in History of Science. He has written and lectured on the ethics and regulations of working with animals in laboratories. His book, "What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy" [Oxford University Press, 2004] examines the history, ethics and scientific questions that shaped the modernization of the United States Animal Welfare Act in the 1980s.
Christopher Berry develops ground-breaking civil litigation as a Staff Attorney for the Animal Legal Defense Fund where he specializes in using consumer law to contest animal industry greenwashing, administrative law to hold government bodies accountable when they fail to protect animals, and civil actions to ensure corporate compliance with animal protection standards. He has successfully resolved lawsuits against a factory farm for misrepresenting its treatment of hens, against the Food & Drug Administration for withholding valuable public information about egg production facilities, and against an industrial chicken and duck hatchery for unlawful business practices that violated the animal cruelty law.
PETA Senior Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo is responsible for uncovering abuses in laboratories, working with whistleblowers to expose violations of animal protection laws, seeking prosecution of animal abusers by federal and state agencies, and replacing animals in laboratories with modern, non-animal methods of experimentation. A veteran of PETA, Kathy was originally hired to head PETA’s cosmetics-testing campaign in 1989 and spearheaded efforts to persuade major corporations—including Estée Lauder and Gillette—to declare permanent bans on all animal tests. Kathy’s 1993 book Monkey Business: The Disturbing Case That Launched the Animal Rights Movement details the cruelty case that first brought then-fledgling PETA into national prominence. The landmark Silver Spring monkeys case also led to the first-ever conviction of an animal experimenter on cruelty-to-animals charges.