{"id":757573,"date":"2019-06-27T08:16:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757573"},"modified":"2019-06-27T08:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:16:35","slug":"german-court-halts-hamster-space-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757573","title":{"rendered":"German court halts hamster European space experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The council said the scientists had not provided enough evidence that the animal tests were indispensable and ethically justifiable, also saying the possible loss of funding was not a sufficient argument.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BBC NEWS:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A major German university must halt experiments on hamsters due to be conducted as part of a European space project over welfare concerns. A district court in Giessen in the state of Hesse said Marburg University must address &#8220;unanswered questions about the ethics of the animal tests&#8221; it was planning to run on 36 dwarf hamsters, the Hessischer Rundfunk public broadcaster reports. The tests, part of a larger European Space Agency project, were to investigate what causes the &#8220;sleep-like state&#8221; of torpor in winter white dwarf hamsters &#8211; a &#8220;naturally occurring energy-saving mode that allows the animals to survive cold spells and lack of food,&#8221; German radio elaborates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The aim was to investigate whether the phenomenon could also be used in space travel. But, once the tests were over, all the hamsters would have been killed&#8230; The council said the scientists &#8220;had not provided enough evidence that the animal tests were indispensable and ethically justifiable within an adequate time frame&#8221;. The court upheld the council&#8217;s decision, saying the &#8220;possible loss of European Space Agency funding and alleged importance of the research&#8221; were not a sufficient argument&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-48747585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jO1Srol3ER8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS: &#8216;A major German university must halt experiments on hamsters due to be conducted as part of a European space project over welfare concerns. A district court in Giessen in the state of Hesse said Marburg University must address &#8220;unanswered questions about the ethics of the animal tests&#8221; it was planning to run on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,20,24,25],"tags":[27,29,35],"class_list":["post-757573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics","category-justice","category-science","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757576,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757573\/revisions\/757576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/757574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}