Critter News
JUNE 21, 2009
Further advancing its leadership in human-animal studies, Humane Society University, an affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States, announced today that it has received a license as a higher education degree-granting institution by the District of Columbia Education Licensure Commission.
Animal Person
APRIL 5, 2011
would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that). Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable. Of course , I say to myself, language is worth fighting for. It helps them focus on what's really being done to animals.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. People interested in animal welfare who are against this idea are completely missing the point here. The logic of this is ridiculous. Obviously its perfectly fine to concentrate on one particular problem (i.e.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
Clearly, in the face of near universal condemnation from the internet masses, there is only one course of action for me. The interests of those working for conservation and those working for animal rights and animal welfare don’t always perfectly align like you might think they do. But these are fixable problems.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. Of course, "That's not to say dogs didn't have their niche in biomedicine. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act."
Critter News
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
I'm studying for the CPA exam and am working through Becker's online course review for the business section. Here's an example of "joint costs" that says all you need to know about animals as nothing more than inputs in a manufacturing process.
Animal Person
APRIL 18, 2009
Yesterday , Abby wrote: Off topic, but I was wondering if you have any advice for those of us who are highly emotionally sensitive and also interested in animal welfare issues? I get so sad when I hear about the mistreatment of animals that it really affects me, but at the same time I want to be able to create change in the world.
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