Outsourcing animal testing (China)

[OhioChick]

US firm setting up drug-trial facilities in China, where scientists are plentiful but activists aren't
By Jehangir S. Pocha, Globe Correspondent | November 25, 2006

BEIJING -- Glenn Rice wants to turn China's dogs into global economic assets.

Because animal rights groups make it difficult for drug companies to build or expand animal-testing laboratories in the United States, Europe, and India, Rice, chief executive of Bridge Pharmaceuticals Inc., is outsourcing the work to China, where scientists are cheap and plentiful and animal-rights activists are muffled by an authoritarian state.

"This is a country with a large number of canines and primates, and if we establish pre-clinical testing facilities here, we can change the dynamics of the industry," said Rice, who in 2004 created his San Francisco-based company out of the life sciences department at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. "Animal testing also does not have the political issues it has in the US or Europe or even India, where there are religious issues as well," he said. "So now big pharma is looking to move to China in a big way."

Beijing is fast becoming China's leading biotechnology center, and Bridge, located in the lush sprawl of the city's Zhongguancun Life Science Park, was given "big benefits and a 5-year tax holiday" for choosing the capital as its home, Rice said.

http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2006/11/25/outsourcing_animal_testing/

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Quie the little operation... their board of directors is listed as 'not disclosed'

WTF is that all about?

Methinks they are afraid of retribution?

Their website makes big claims of compliance about animal testing, blah blah blah.

[Coventina]

2. Congratulations China, on being the last, great bastion of institutionalized cruelty.

To both humans and animals.

You must be so fucking proud.

:puke:

[Deja Q]

5. get this:

http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_3763-ROUNDUP-Hu-Urges-India-And-China-To-Promote-Multilateralism.html

"We (India and China) should promote multi-polarity in the world and democracy in international relations and work to make the international political and economic order fairer and more equitable," Hu, the first Chinese president to visit India in over a decade, said in a keynote address in New Delhi.

[jwirr]

3. This is why most of the moral issues of the day are never going

to be won, be it stem cell use, abortion, animal rights, etc. All that happens it it is outsourced. The only behavior we can hope to control is what actually happens in our own country. That is the extent of our power to change things. We have learned that from Vietnam and Iraq, if we did not learn anything else. We might be able to persuade people to follow us but we cannot police the whole world and many a corporation will take advantage of that.

[DemExpat]

8. But many of these corporations ARE in our own country. (countries)...

so we should start by policing THEM not to partake in these inhumane practices of cruel animal testing outsourcing. IMHO.

DemEx

[jwirr]

9. That I agree with but my point was that when we do they up and

move out of the country. We do stop it in our own country.

[nealmhughes]

4. Evidently all mammal life is cheap in China.

Why not torture the monkeys and dogs? You already work the people to death thru the long hours and horrnedous environmental conditions there.

[Deja Q]

6. So is human life.

As you had just pointed out.

[Raine]

7. So this way these drug companies

can be as cruel and inhumane as they please and there will be no no one watching. :mad: :grr:

[shanti]

10. exactly

they figured out how to get around the activists :(