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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center

Critter News

PETA has filed complaints about this place for years, but it's the first warning they've actually generated. And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response. Tags: medical research PETA animal welfare us.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. Actually, I didn't quit neuroscience as a result of the experiences described, but I did quit working with animals.