Michael Budkie, the executive director of Stop Animal Exploitation Now, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack demanding an independent investigation of the agencyâ??s animal research oversight organizations due to a number of animal deaths in labs across the country in the past year-plus.
We bring this up because some on the UW-Madison campus have argued in recent months that animal research at the university is ethical, in part, due to stringent federal oversight.
But Budkie, whose group opposes primate research for moral and financial reasons, says thatâ??s not the case.