Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, in collaboration with a number of government agencies, has established AltWeb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web site. Search the Libraries A good library is one of your best sources of information on the whos, whats, whens, wheres, and whys of animal research.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering. While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering. McDonald’s, are you listening?

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

In a study first published in 2011, my colleagues and I showed how chimpanzees used in the biomedical and entertainment industries suffered from PTSD and other mental disorders – much like the psychiatric conditions I’ve documented in human torture survivors."

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 13, 2008

To the Editor: Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld writes about the horrors of a kosher slaughterhouse where “news reports and government documents have described abusive practices.” But he says almost nothing about reports of how badly the animals were treated there. Religious slaughter is still slaughter. Gretchen Berger New York, Aug.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

An 8-minute film documenting the horror of perfectly healthy horses being slaughtered for no good reason can be viewed here. While we wait for the ruling, hundreds of innocent horses will be killed in true horror-film fashion—their heads smashed by captive-bolt pistols, their throats slit by the slashing knives of Cavel employees.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Nearly 70 percent of all the antibiotics produced are fed to farmed animals to prevent (not treat) disease. McWilliams’s column reminds us of the scientific findings documented out in Livestock’s Long Shadow , the Food and Agricultural Organization’s 390 page report on the environmental impact of meat production.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly.

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