According to this article, more than 180,000 animals were poisoned, given degenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease or exposed to “severe” toxicity tests in UK laboratories last year, figures have revealed.
Source: More Than 180,000 Animals Experience ‘Severe’ Suffering In UK Labs, Home Office Figures Reveal
Assuming than this story is accurate, I believe that it’s time to reign in big business and reflect more on morality and decency.
Thoughts?
This is an unusual story. I struggle to believe it. What about global competition?
Caihongyu deep sea submersible.
The following is based on a translation of a report on a Chinese news site:
Shanghai plans to make a breakthrough in key deep seasubmersible, surveying and exploration technologies by 2020.
It is now building a 5000-ton scientific survey master ship, the Zhangqian, and will put it into operation in 2016.
It has completed research and development for a 10,000-metre unmanned submersible and landing vehicle and will test them at a depth of 4,000 metres.
The unmanned submersible is planned to submerge into the deepest part of the world’s oceans, the Mariana Trench, in 2016.
The manned Caihongyu submersible, now being developed, is planned to go to the bottom of the Trench in 2019.
The success of Shanghai’s deep submersible Caihongyu project will enable Shanghai to develop a 100-billion-yuan deep-sea equipment industry to boost Shanghai’s marine industries and make them account for…
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