Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research. A valuable new resource has recently entered the information superhighway. Get FOIAed Up!

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 15, 2007

Whaling for scientific research is indispensable to establish the proper conservation of whales and ocean resources. Japan is sincerely committed to researching whales’ dietary habits and nutrition status, as well as the shift in whale populations by age over time. Jiro Okuyama Dir.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 8, 2007

Here is a resource for anyone who is doing research on, or is merely interested in, animal rights. Tom Regan is one of the founders of the modern animal-rights movement. I will add the site to the blogroll.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

A copy of the paper was deposited with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in East Lansing, where I did much of my research, but it has never been published. Would anyone be interested in reading it? If so, I can scan, upload, and link to it in this blog.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

The National Resources Defense Council's lawsuit alleges the Navy's sonar causes whales and other mammals to beach themselves." The court found that using mid-frequency active sonar violated the Coastal Zone Management Act and Bush exempted the Navy from a section of that act. Navy to do so?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms.

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