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Student Researcher Says "Hooray for Animal Research"

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Freeman says that the most difficult thing he has encountered so far in his research comes not from the lab, but from people’s attitudes about animal testing. Interesting that animal research is not cruel or inhumane because it benefits US. Interesting that animal research is not cruel or inhumane because it benefits US.

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Tom Regan on Cruelty

Animal Ethics

Cruelty is manifested in different ways. The central case of cruelty appears to be the case where, in Locke's apt phrase, one takes "a seeming kind of Pleasure" in causing another to suffer. Let us term this sadistic cruelty. Cruelty of either kind, sadistic or brutal, can be manifested in active or passive behavior.

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Mysterious Sled Dog Deaths

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An animal rights group claims the dogs were killed inhumanely by an outdoor adventure company and thrown into a mass grave. Throats slit' The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in British Columbia, alleged that an Outdoor Adventures employee was told to cull the dogs in April last year.

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Suit Against Circus Owners Goes to Trial

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Finally, a cruelty suit against Feld Entertainment, which owns Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, is coming to trial. employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades. Tags: animal cruelty circus elephants.

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Ohio to Phase Out Veal Crates

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The board was supposed to end this inhumane practice in Ohio for good; however, during a March 1 meeting, they voted to remove the provision requiring that calves have enough room to move, proposing to allow their confinement in tiny crates for the first 10 weeks of their lives and violating the agreement.

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Handbags are a Dog’s Best Friend

4 The Love Of Animals

Tails are sure to wag on Friday, June 12t h as Luna Boston hosts “Doggies + Bags,” a special benefit party for the Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS). From 4-7pm, Bostonians are welcome to bring their pooches by Luna Boston’s boutique at 205 Newbury St.

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Study Claims Islamic Slaughtering More Humane

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I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. It is also used to prevent the animal from feeling pain before it dies. According to the researchers, the Islamic method wins.

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