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Air Canada To Stop Shipping Lab Primates

Critter News

Thank you Air Canada! Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Airlines in Canada must obtain approval from the CTA to revise their shipping guidelines.

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From Today's Los Angeles Times

Animal Ethics

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? Michelle Nadon, Aurora, Canada To the editor: Bars? The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure. Finally, what of the audience? Lisa Edmondson, Los Angeles

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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

Animal Person

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. Meanwhile, I would love to be able to have some kind of law against human beings producing/reproducing more than one person per person.