I'm OPPOSED to ALL KILLING, so EXPERIMENT on yourselves, you sick stinks!
Ever hear of LIVE and LET LIVE?
GO ALL NATURAL, people!!
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"No bedbugs at these 'hotels' - they're sterile" by Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | December 15, 2008
Call it the Mouse Hotel.
Charles River Laboratories Inc., long known for breeding and selling rats and mice to researchers around the world, is increasingly also providing room and boarding services for its customers' rodents - mainly genetically engineered mice used to test experimental drugs.
The company, based in Wilmington, operates 11 "hotels" around the world, including a 70,000-square-foot facility at its headquarters, where tens of thousands of rats and mice stay each night.
The service illustrates Charles River's efforts to boost sales by offering an ever-widening menu of services to pharmaceutical companies, which rely on rodents to test new therapies. The hotel business, which quietly started 15 years ago and is part of a division that generates more than $150 million in annual revenue, is now quite likely the largest of its kind in the world, said Isaac Ro, a financial analyst with the Boston investment banker Leerink Swann & Co.
Guinea rats!!!!
On average, Charles River charges customers about $375 per week - or $54 per night - for a suite of cages at the mouse hotel (called an isolator). That's a bargain compared to most human hotels in the area. Of course, the space might be a bit cramped by human standards. Each mouse suite, a 54-cubic-foot box, typically contains 30 rooms (or clear plastic cages) housing about 90 mice. So the guests have plenty of company. And the housekeepers normally clean the rooms just once a week.
Yet Charles River says it offers a wide range of amenities that make it a five-star residence, including a constant supply of fresh food and water, tailored to meet the guests' special diets. The rooms are also constantly monitored for humane conditions and temperature. The air is filtered to avoid contamination from other guests or the hotel staff, and the bedding is sterilized. Security guards keep visitors from wandering onto the grounds of the hotel. And guests typically stay for months or years, rather than a single night.
Too bad they DON'T CARE FOR PEOPLE as well, 'eh? They just POISONING US -- just like the rats -- and they ain't even fucking us!!!
"It's a great hotel," said Charles River corporate vice president Bill Barbo. "I'd love to stay at a place like this." Barbo said the hotel analogy helps explain the pricing. Just like a real hotel, it rents space and bedding to customers for the night for a base price. But it also offers a menu of extra services for additional fees, similar to how hotels charge extra for room service and phone calls.
"A hotel is the best analogy we could come up with," he said. Ro estimated Charles River's hotel business had been growing at a rate of roughly 9 to 10 percent. But in the near term, Ro said, industry growth will likely be hurt by cutbacks in the pharmaceutical industry, especially as the economy has gone into recession.
"The whole industry has been crushed," he said.
Guess who is next on the bailout list?
