In 2016, donor money from the Kidney Foundation wa...

In 2016, donor money from the Kidney Foundation was again awarded to scientific research involving laboratory animals. It is striking how research budgets often flow to the same research groups over and over again, for animal studies of which the beginning and the end are lost. Laboratory animals are made ill, their kidneys are poisoned, damaged, removed, transplanted. All animals are killed at the end of a study and replaced by new test animals for a subsequent study.

Laboratory animals are made sick, their kidneys are poisoned, damaged, removed, transplanted.

KIDNEY DAMAGE IN GAME Mice
For example, 100,000 euros was awarded for research into kidney damage in laboratory animals at the AMC Amsterdam. The project will start in April 2017 and will last one year. Test mice are put on a diet of specific fats and vitamins to find out whether these can play a role in preventing or treating kidney damage.1

The AMC research group has been conducting these animal experiments since 2005. From 2009, these research projects have been funded with donor money from the Kidney Foundation. In the publications2 we read how mice undergo operations that cause kidney damage. Veins that regulate the blood supply to the kidneys are stretched with a clamp for half an hour. This causes serious damage to the kidneys. After the operation, the mice are studied for a while because the researchers want to gain more insight into the role of various factors in the recovery process.