After surviving a legal scare a little more than a year ago and then helping convince the Legislature to exempt researchers from state animal cruelty statutes, UW-Madison is taking steps to potentially begin a new series of decompression sickness studies using sheep.
“We are certainly alarmed about this development, although I can?t say we?re surprised,? says Rick Bogle, an outspoken critic of the university?s animal research projects and the co-director of the Madison-based Alliance for Animals. Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research at UW-Madison, says that although plans to resume the studies are far from finalized, it would be ?irresponsible not to consider their resumption? due to a range of ?valuable information? past university research on this topic has produced.