Anatomy Gifts Registry 'allows people to care for animals in life and death'

Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:50

The Anatomy Gifts Registry (AGR) has been recognised for its benefits to pet health care.

The gift register allows people who are pet health care givers in life to continue to help animals after their death, by donating their bodies for medical research.

The AGR has been recognised by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which has awarded the registry a PETA Proggy Award for outstanding effort in ethical science.

People who sign-up to the AGR will help provide expertly-prepared human tissue for medical research, which will help dramatically reduce medical testing on animals.

Kathy Guillermo, PETA's vice-president of laboratory investigations, says: "Using human tissues to train physicians and research human ailments is the best way to advance human medicine and save the lives of countless animals at the same time."

The AGR was established by the Anatomic Gift Foundation, which was founded in 1994 to place donated human tissue for medical research.

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Posted by Elaine