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British-Funded Lab Under Investigation in Malaysia

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Veterinary Services director Abdul Aziz Jamaludin said the company will be ordered to shut down if his department finds animals were subject to abuse, the Sunday Star newspaper reported. "If If animal testing cannot be conducted in the United States or Europe, I see no reason why they should be allowed here," Abdul Aziz was quoted as saying.

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At What Point Are American Tea Baggers Labeled "Terrorists?"

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According to our government, the animal rights and environmental movements are the number one domestic terrorism threat in the United States. Was Tim McVeigh who blew up the Oklahoma Federal Building an animal rights/environmental activist? What about militias? White supremacists? This is absolutely unfair.

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Humane Society Puts Pressure on South Carolina's Bear Baying

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Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state. Statutes banning animal fighting have a specific exemption for dog training.

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Settlement Forces Animal Research Facilities to Disclose More

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Animal research facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department. Tags: animal experimentation animal research humane society USDA medical research.

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Humane Society Cites Abuses at University of Minnesota

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I don't care if they're supposedly working for altruistic purposes (they're not, but that's another story), they are allowing animals to suffer through negligent care separate from the excruciating experiments they must still undergo. The public doesn't want animals to suffer gratuitously in research laboratories," said Martin Stephens, Ph.D.,

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University of Utah Cited by Dept. of Agriculture

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Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA.

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Arkansas Out of the Dark Ages with Cruelty Law

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Mike Beebe has signed into law new animal-cruelty restrictions that make aggravated cruelty to cats, dogs and horses a felony on the first offense. Arkansas becomes the 46th state to make cruelty to animals a felony, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

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