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ards of care and comfortable housing of animals. The measure also 
established a “pain conditions” limit on the amount of suffering in- 
flicted during experiments with animals. These are elements which 
require inclusion in our own approach to a solution of the problem. 
I ask consent to include as part of my statement the publication 
entitled, “Notes on the Law Relating to Experiments on Animals in 
Great Britain,” which was issued by the Research Defense Society 
of London. 
Mr. Chairman, I have received a considerable volume of mail from 
doctors and researchers expressing opposition to the humane treat- 
ment legislation. They fear that Government reporting and inspec- 
tion requirements will interfere with experiments or medical training. 
They claim that recordkeeping will subtract needlessly from valuable 
time which should be devoted to tests and experiments. As a sponsor 
of humane treatment legislation, I believe that this phase of the pro- 
gram, regulated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 
must be kept as simple as possible while providing adequate safe- 
guards for the animals. 
I would like to emphasize that the 80-year-old British law has not 
handcuffed scientific and medical progress. As a matter of fact, 11 
British scientists have received the Nobel Peace Prize for Biology and 
Medicine. 
I urge the favorable consideration by your committee of legislation 
which will assure American citizens that institutions or researchers 
aided by tax revenues give proper care and treatment to animals used 
to unlock the riddles of human illness. A civilized society can do no 
less for creatures of a lower order. 
I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the hearings of this 
meeting the March-April information report put out by the Animal 
Welfare Institute of New York, which I think is one of the best sum- 
maries of the provisions of the British act on which we want to model 
our legislation that I have ever seen, and I think it would be an admi- 
rable contribution. 
(The documents referred to follow :) 
