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Table 5. Long-term goals.
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 Organize
inter-agency program for new alternative models to rodents for high
priority areas of biomedical research.
Ensure the
“agricultural perspective” is maintained at land grant institutions.
Either USDA officials must be engaged/convinced to increase
dramatically the USDA budget allocation for competitive grants in
animal research and/or political support must be garnered to create a
new funding agency (e.g., National Institute of Agriculture and
Food Science [6]).
Develop
alternative high margin markets for animal products to re-invigorate
industry support for animal research.
Develop
interagency support for training, sabbaticals and career development
for scientists to use agriculturally important animal species as models
for high priority problems in agriculture and biomedicine.
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