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USHS Alleges Animal Abuse at the University of Louisiana New Iberia Research Laboratory

Critter News

Other scenes show a newborn chimpanzee being taken from its mother and an adult screaming as a lab worker aims a tranquilizer gun before the animal falls sedated from a shelf to the floor. The video footage shows monkeys biting themselves and slamming against the bars of small cages. Here is a link to the Humane Society.

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BLM Admits Horse Roundups Have Involved Mistreatment

Critter News

An internal review by the US Bureau of Land Management admits that the roundup of wild horses has involved some mistreatment, but they refuse to admit the treatment was inhumane. Excerpted from USA Today. The Bureau of Land Management's internal review of a wild horse roundup in Nevada in Sept.,

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Virtually everyone agrees that: (1) It is wrong to cause a conscious sentient animal to suffer for no good reason. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so.