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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

Critter News

How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there. The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. Most animals in the U.S. Most animals in the U.S. I certainly didn't.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.1

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This is a continuation of an earlier post about why I question animal testing. Similar legislation permitted the NIH itself to enter into deals with drug companies that would directly transfer NIH discoveries to industry. Bayh-Dole gave a tremendous boost to the nascent biotechnology industry, as well as to big pharma.

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Hope for Hen Welfare

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Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Just Two Lessons Learned for Today

Animal Person

I've decided that 20 lessons is a good number to stop at, and today I'll discuss what are probably the two most controversial ones, about the animal rights movement. The Appeal of Cliques The first six Lessons Learned from 4 Years of Animal Person and numbers 7-10 hinted about cliques, but only the negative aspects. Lesson #11.

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HollyWoof Gift Bags Spoil Celebrity Dogs!

4 The Love Of Animals

Adorning the A-Lister animals will be Fifi Runn’s dog collars, designed with pep and punch, durably made and boasting a blend of urban edge and humor, these collars look as good in the urban jungle as in the open countryside. Thanks to Distinctive Assets for sharing this information with us and making us drool over the HollyWoof gift bag!

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Twenty Years Ago

Animal Ethics

They’re apparently produced by the beef industry. Instead, the beef industry has gone in for nonrational persuasion. Beef, they want us to believe, is part of a healthy and happy lifestyle. 10-27-87 Tuesday. I’m troubled by certain advertisements that have recently appeared on television.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public’s food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry. 4): Your article about E.