8 Articles match "2009","Animal Research","Pigs"

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• Marines Still Using Pigs for Medical Training
  
  They claim the animals are asleep during the procedures and feel no pain. The Marines also claim that using live pigs and inflicting wounds on them is the only way to approximate real-life situations in combat. Tags: animal research military pigs It's the best way to train medical personnel.
  Critter News - Thursday, August 13, 2009
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• Pigs Used in Explosives Tests in Britain
  
  I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has defended its use of more than 100 pigs in explosive tests in Wiltshire. Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009.
  Critter News - Friday, February 12, 2010
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• Wisconsin-Madison Cleared by USDA
  
  The University of Wisconsin-Madison was cleared of animal welfare violations in a report released yesterday. It had twenty violations back in December 2009. In one case, a pen housing a large pig was constructed with slats that regularly caused the pig to fall when its feet fell through.
  Critter News - Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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• PETA Busts University of Utah Research Lab
  
  An undercover PETA investigator shot hours of footage of alleged mistreatment of animals. vice president for research. It's a remarkably banal list of ordinary events in an animal-care facility." Failed to ensure that experiments minimized discomfort, distress and pain to the animals. Certainly a case to follow.
  Critter News - Thursday, November 12, 2009
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• A Trip to an Animal Lab
  
  In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). Well, kind of. It was a rather grim place.
  Critter News - Thursday, November 5, 2009
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• Appeal Denied for Six Activists Convicted Under AEPA
  
  Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests. It was a 2-1 decision by the US Court of Appeals.
  Critter News - Saturday, October 17, 2009
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• ALF Spray Paints Bomb Threat in the Netherlands
  
  ALF activists spray painted a bomb threat at Wageningen University in the Netherlands because they do animal research. For more than a year this university has been warned about their meaningless experiments on various animals and especially pigs (obesity research). Never heard of that approach.
  Critter News - Monday, June 15, 2009
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• Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years
  
  This place is celebrating its 10th year with ground-breaking research into what makes us all fat. And let's not forget the required sanctimonious quote from an animal researcher “Our primates are essential partners in medical progress, as are mice, rats, guinea pigs and opossums. Tags: primates medical research
  Critter News - Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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