An 11 minute snippet featuring Alka Chandna- the Vice President of Laboratory Experimentation Cases for animal rights activist organization PETA. In this video, she discloses the abuse, neglect, and torture that animals such as monkeys are subjected to in laboratories at the University of Michigan to members of the Michigan Animal Rights Society. She concludes with discussing the unsanitary conditions within UofM laboratories.
Presentation slides used during a meeting on March 25th, 2011 by the Michigan Animal Rights Society- a student organization at the University of Michigan for animal rights activists. The slides provide an ethical, scientific, and philosophical exploration of applying action with personal ethics through a refusal to consume food products that come from animals. Moreover, the slides focus on the environmental benefits of veganism and how the physical and emotional pain that animals endure has many similarities to human emotions.
A collection of emails from former University of Michigan Law professor and animal welfare advocate Joseph Vining. This collection primarily pertains to the former professor's lecture content, speaking events, and general scheduling of events within the University of Michigan Law School.
A draft of an essay from former University of Michigan Law Professor and animal welfare advocate Joseph Vining. In this essay dated March 9th, 2005, Joseph Vining makes comparisons between the realms of corporate and animal law-reflecting on how corporate law is considered a more respectable field although animal law concerns sentient beings.
A poster by the Michigan Ethics Bowl advertising a debate between PETA VP Bruce Friedrich and the Michigan Ethics Bowl Team on whether or not eating meat is ethical.
A poster from the Michigan Animal Rights Society advertising a lecture where American Animal Rights activist Peter Young describes his evolution into an animal-rights activists and his later prosecution for freeing animals from fur farms.
A 1983 memo from Bennett J. Cohen of the University of Michigan’s Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine to the Committee on Use and Care of Animals summarizing the newly received AAALAC site-visit report. Cohen notes deficiencies the report found and disputes some of its claims.
A 1983 site-visit evaluation report from the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care that reviews the state of animal research facilities at the University of Michigan. It summarizes widespread deficiencies in surgical spaces, sanitation practices, housing conditions, ventilation, lighting, and animal health oversight, along with required corrective actions. Notable findings include dirty and blood-stained surgical areas, overcrowded or improperly sized cages, rusted or urine-encrusted cages and equipment, and a morgue freezer overfull of dead animals amid blood and other debris.
The article reports on the formation of the Michigan Society for Medical Research at the University of Michigan, a group advocating for the continued use of animals in scientific research amid growing opposition from animal-welfare organizations and pending federal legislation. It highlights statements from Dr. Bennett Cohen and others arguing that animal research is essential, warning that proposed regulations would increase costs and hinder scientific progress.
The archived website from the University of Michigan Law School's Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, a organization of law students dedicated to the legal protection of animals.
