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Pigs Used in Explosives Tests in Britain

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The tests "saved many lives" in Iraq and Afghanistan due to improvements in post-traumatic techniques, junior defence minister Quentin Davies said. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009.

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Service Members Get a Second Chance with Service Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

Established in 2008, the mission of The Dublin Dog Foundation is to foster the therapeutic and service roles of dogs in the development, support, and inspiration they provide to their human companions. “It was a very simple decision for us to partner with them to support their efforts and the needs of the soldiers that benefit from them.&#.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome leader. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Is seeking to extract economic benefit out of nature a bad thing? Schools, libraries, roads, hospitals, and the like.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It sent more than 300,000 troops to help us in Vietnam, was a quick and generous supporter of Desert Storm in 1991, and for several years had the third-largest deployment of troops in Iraq, following our invasion of that country five years ago. Without our strong alliance with South Korea, our influence in Asia would be vastly diminished.