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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center

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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

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week. Maybe on paper.