7 Articles match "2001"

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• Help the Almagordo Chimpanzees
  
  Since 2001, chimpanzees have been housed at APF, where they cannot be used for research. Here's an action alert from Physicians for Social Responsibility.
  Critter News - Thursday, August 26, 2010
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• Hamsters Celebrate 70 Years in the US
  
  Now, one million hamsters are kept as pets, an increase of 41 percent since 2001. Interesting article. Prior to the 1930s, hamsters were pretty much in the wild. Prior to the 1970s, virtually all were descended from one breeding pair. This includes the two sitting on the shelf in our house!)
  Critter News - Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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• Travis the Chimp is the Victim
  
  The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. There has been so much said about Travis the chimp this week. What were they thinking?) That image was wrong on so many levels. But let's stick to the animal rights issue. This is serious stuff.
  Critter News - Saturday, February 21, 2009
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• Manfred Kuehn on Kant's Cosmopolitanism
  
  Manfred Kuehn, Kant: A Biography [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001], 384-5) Note from KBJ: I no more think of myself as a citizen of the world than I think of myself as a citizen of North America or of the Northern Hemisphere. Kant's ideas about cosmopolitanism are still hotly debated today. One does not answer problems.
  Animal Ethics - Sunday, November 15, 2009
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• Cute of the day: Baby White Rhino!
  
  Mlelani, Tambo and another female white rhino were airlifted from Kruger National Park in South Africa in 2001 through the efforts of the International Rhino Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of rhinos.  TAMPA, Fla. 11, 2009. white, 9 and 3 black). and around the world. Cute of the day: Baby White Rhino!
  4 The Love Of Animals - Friday, November 13, 2009
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• Why Is the Federal Government Awarding Contracts to a Company That Was Involved in Smuggling Primates?
  
  Worldwide Primates Inc. was started by Mathew Block to import primates into the US for animal experimentation. In 1993, he went to prison for smuggling baby orangutans. Despite this, it looks like this has been no barrier to his company getting federal contracts. The principals are Brooke Block (his wife) and Gertie Block (his mother).
  Critter News - Monday, September 14, 2009
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• From Today's New York Times
  
  In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that irradiating half the meat and poultry consumed in the United States would mean 900,000 fewer cases of food-borne illness and 350 fewer deaths each year. To the Editor: Re “ The Burger That Shattered Her Life: Trail of E. 4): Your article about E. wish Ms.
  Animal Ethics - Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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