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Ethical Investment — What is It, and what are the Implications for Industry Funding of Research into Alternatives?

Ethical Investment — What is It, and what are the Implications for Industry Funding of Research... ATLA 29, 55–62, 2001 55 Comment Ethical Investment — What is It, and What Are the Implications for Industry Funding of Research Into Alternatives? 1 1,2 Robert D. Combes and Michael Balls 1 2 FRAME, 96–98 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham NG1 4EE, UK; ECVAM, JRC Research Institute, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, 21020 Ispra (VA), Italy Objectives The first ethical fund in the UK was intro- duced by Friends Provident in 1984. Since This paper is intended to be a critical that time, there has been increasing interest appraisal of ethical investment with respect in ethical investment, and many financial to animal experimentation. It is aimed at a institutions now provide investment policies wide readership, ranging from scientists in that screen out companies whose activities, the field, through laypersons interested in rightly or not, are perceived as being in conflict laboratory animal welfare, and potential with certain ethical criteria. Also, some ethical investors, to senior management in indus- funds positively invest money in companies tries directly or indirectly involved in animal whose policies are deemed to be friendly testing. toward the environment or other matters of ethical and social interest or concern. Currently, there are about 40 ethical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Alternatives to Laboratory Animals SAGE

Ethical Investment — What is It, and what are the Implications for Industry Funding of Research into Alternatives?

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SAGE
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© 2001 Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
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0261-1929
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2632-3559
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10.1177/026119290102900105
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ATLA 29, 55–62, 2001 55 Comment Ethical Investment — What is It, and What Are the Implications for Industry Funding of Research Into Alternatives? 1 1,2 Robert D. Combes and Michael Balls 1 2 FRAME, 96–98 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham NG1 4EE, UK; ECVAM, JRC Research Institute, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, 21020 Ispra (VA), Italy Objectives The first ethical fund in the UK was intro- duced by Friends Provident in 1984. Since This paper is intended to be a critical that time, there has been increasing interest appraisal of ethical investment with respect in ethical investment, and many financial to animal experimentation. It is aimed at a institutions now provide investment policies wide readership, ranging from scientists in that screen out companies whose activities, the field, through laypersons interested in rightly or not, are perceived as being in conflict laboratory animal welfare, and potential with certain ethical criteria. Also, some ethical investors, to senior management in indus- funds positively invest money in companies tries directly or indirectly involved in animal whose policies are deemed to be friendly testing. toward the environment or other matters of ethical and social interest or concern. Currently, there are about 40 ethical

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Published: Jan 1, 2001

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