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Tests Involving the Burial of LIVE PIGS Are Halted

Critter News

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. Tags: austria animal research pigs. Well, there's always some unexpected nonsense to discover.

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

The underlying premise is that you can know what is right (such as me knowing what's right then eating cow flesh in the form of filet mignon for a year), but that by no means will necessarily manifest in your behavior. And human psychology says that humans are far more social than rational creatures. What do you think?