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To the Editor: Ms Fishbein's¹ critique of the settlement agreement between the Alternatives Research & Development Foundation (a decade-old provider of research grants) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)² reflects ongoing efforts to use fabrications and distortions to create a panic within the US biomedical research and patient advocacy communities. A recent editorial in Nature noted that "some of the research lobby's arguments verge on the reactionary."³

Fishbein seeks to characterize our settlement as an attempt to eliminate the use of animals in biomedical research. This is a curious conclusion, since the inclusion in the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) of rats, mice, and birds was mandated by Congress more than 30 years ago and was confirmed by a federal court more than 10 years ago. The full inclusion of rats, mice, and birds—on a level equal to that of all other vertebrate species covered by AWA—is a prerequisite for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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