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Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 3:10 pm
How open should researchers be with what they do to
animals in experiments? That’s the question being
discussed at a conference on openness in animal
research.
The conference is being hosted by the
Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals
in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART). The conference is
primarily composed of industry representatives and animal
researchers, but for the first time ever the New Zealand
Anti-Vivisection Society (NZAVS) is attending.
This is
the first time an animal advocacy group has attended the
event, in keeping with progress towards openness. But the
Executive Director of the NZAVS, Tara Jackson, says some