Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Before 2008, only one person had been incarcerated for dog fighting in Georgia. Considering the state had one of the weakest dog-fighting laws in the nation, that's no compliment. But since a new and tougher dog fighting law was passed in May 2008, multiple arrests have been made, with more on the horizon.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A national physicians group has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, saying its use of ferrets to train medical residents in emergency procedures on babies and children violates a federal animal-welfare law. John Pippin, a Dallas cardiologist who helped write the complaint.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

SAEN said UC Davis is responsible for the deaths of at least 14 monkeys over an 11-month period from June of 2008 to April of this year, and that the deaths violated federal law. Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency charged Wildlife Services for its illegal placement of a sodium cyanide M-44 (a highly lethal booby trap) on public land, which harmed a U.S. The aerial gunning program has killed at least 10 agents and injured 28 more.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. Consumer boycotts and protective laws are desperately needed. 9, 2008 The writer is president of United Poultry Concerns , a nonprofit organization that is a sponsor of Proposition 2.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? While cruelty to animals is a serious matter that should elicit widespread public outrage, efforts to reach the public through more serious means often fall on deaf ears in a world in which sex sells and there are both a war and an economic downturn. July 15, 2008

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