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Resolved, That support be given to legislation which would provide for an 
advisory and educational service and which would provide funds to aid in 
research, education, and training in the field of animal care. 
Mr. Rogers of Florida. I wonder if you could advise the committee 
who makes up the National Capital Branch of the Animal Care 
Panel. 
Mrs. Woodard. Researchers and all people interested in the humane 
welfare of animals in the Washington, D.C. area. Dr. William Gay 
of NIH is the president. I am secretary-treasurer. 
Mr. Rogers of Florida. And how many members do you have in 
your organization ? 
Mrs, Woodard. We have 113 members. 
Mr. Rogers of Florida. I see. 
Thank you very much. 
Mr. Roberts. Our next witness will be Dr. B. J, Cohen, 
STATEMENT OE BENNETT J. COHEN, D.Y.M., PH. D., ASSOCIATE 
PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 
Mr. Cohen. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
I regret very much that I learned of this hearing only yesterday, 
and so have not had an opportunity formally to prepare my remarks. 
With your permission, however, I will submit my statement within 
10 days, if that is all right with you. 
Mr. Roberts. Without objection. 
Mr. Cohen. I am Bennett J. Cohen, associate professor of phys- 
iology at the University of Michigan. I am past president of the 
Animal Care Panel, presently chairman of the Animal Facilities 
Standards Committee. 
I am currently chairman of the Institute of Laboratory Animal 
Resources of the National Academy of Sciences and the National 
Research Council. This is the parent group which sponsored the 
report which you now have from Dr, Thorp. 
However, I am speaking today primarily as the representative of 
the Animal Care Panel. In your questioning Mrs. Woodard, you 
asked, What is the Animal Care Panel? The National Capital area 
branch is one of approximately 15 branches located in metropolitan 
areas throughout the country. The Animal Care Panel was estab- 
lished in 1949. It is a voluntary association of institutions and in- 
dividuals professionally concerned with the care, study, and use of 
laboratory animals in biomedical research institutions. In the years 
since the organization of the Animal Care Panel greater advances in 
laboratory animal care have occurred than in the previous 50 to 100 
years. 
I believe a certain lack of perspective has been evident in the dis- 
cussion this morning ; and perspective is what is most needed in this 
field at the present time. There can be no disagreement, and there is 
no disagreement among scientists that humane care as such is a very 
desirable end in itself. 
I think it has already been stated that this is certainly so on scientific 
grounds. It is also so on ethical grounds. I don’t think that the 
proponents of the bill are any more or less moral than biological 
scientists, and, of course, the reverse is true. I believe this has been 
made clear today. 
