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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

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Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays. From the AP.

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University of Utah Continues Getting Bad Press

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Investigative journalism by the Salt Lake Tribune, following-up on allegations levelled by PETA against the University of Utah's Comparative Medicine Center and the Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute laboratories revealed the two laboratories had used 190 dogs and cats in 2009, all obtained from shelters.

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“How about Pineapple Gose-beak?” – Uinta Brewing Company: Flamingose

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While the addition of salt and coriander to beer may seem like a strangely modern technique, spiced wheat beers are a northern European tradition that likely dates to the Middle Ages, perhaps a vestige predating the widespread adoption of hops. Leipzig in the eighteenth century: the adopted home of the sour, salty wheat beer known as Gose.

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