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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

I don't know if this guy working in an animal lab has anything to do with the crime he is accused of committing. But, if he's guilty of such a horrible and violent crime, it makes me wonder how he treated his animal subjects when no one was around. Tags: university research medical research. I guess we'll see what happens next.

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Critter News

JULY 10, 2009

The Franklin Park Zoo, a Boston institution that has drawn generations of city and suburban families, might be forced to close its doors and possibly euthanize some of its animals as a result of the deep budget cuts imposed by Governor Deval Patrick, zoo officials said Friday. That they care for the species and animals? It doesn't say.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Another example of how animals (even goldfish!) A 27-year-old man who attacked his ex-girlfriend and killed her pet fish has been sentenced to two years probation and a psychological evaluation. Fite pleaded guilty to animal abuse and domestic-violence assault. Tags: animal abuse domestic violence. From Pets News.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there. Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. Most animals in the U.S. This is really interesting. I certainly didn't.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

A couple of years ago I catalogued the dozens of excuses/rationalizations from well-meaning, compassionate people about why they eat animals, and all fell into one of six categories: It's what god wanted (and other versions, such as: That's why they were put on the earth. Cain=farmer=evil murderer; Abel=slaughtered animals=victim/good son.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Chris from Beijing wasn't able to comment (Animal Person is blocked in China) but he did write me to say he looks forward to Jonathan Safran Foer's sequel to Eating Animals. Not Eating Animals. And when you have people who slaughter animals for a living on your side, in my mind your pro-animal message loses credibility.

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Critter News

MAY 11, 2010

Seems odd, although officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said that fish they've tested have not been killed by oil, but a lack of oxygen in the water. Tags: dead animals marine life marine animals 2010 oil spill. Still, though, 60 sea turtles over 3 weeks? Seems like an awful lot.

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Critter News

JANUARY 2, 2009

However, this rule will have little effect because fewer than than one percent of the seals killed during the annual hunt are older than a year.Under the new rules, the existing "blink test," used to check whether seals are unconscious before skinning is being eliminated because it is unreliable. Tags: canada seal hunters seals.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations. The others are the University of Michigan and University of Louisiana/New Iberia.

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Animal Person

MAY 14, 2009

In other words, it's so tragic that elephants are in mortal danger that you should kill cows to help protect the imperiled elephants? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Those pondering a pair should act fast. There are only 50 available. To whom does that make sense or sound like a good idea?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Tags: hamsters UK animal cruelty. As a hamster lover who just adopted a new one today (still unnamed), I find this incident particularly reprehensible. Thanks to animalblog.co.uk for the story.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Lackawanna animal-control officer Frederick S. Grasso finally got his day in court Monday, testifying that he shot and killed three cats last June only after they had hissed and spat at him from the basement of a Lackawanna apartment complex. “I This guy is an ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER and we are to believe that he doesn't know this?

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The American Bar Association has an animal law committee. Animal law is broader than laws pertaining to animals. The status of animals in our legal system is in flux and attorneys are discovering creative and interesting ways to use legal arguments in the face of increasingly complex scenarios. Here's the link.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture."

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JUNE 14, 2010

Tags: animal research montana. After meeting with park managers on Wednesday, researchers were allowed to resume their field work. However, a second male goat died after it was darted on Thursday. Its cause of death has not yet been determined.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Portugal is NOT known for its kindness to animals so this is a significant development for a Portuguese city. Under Portuguese legislation, stray and unwanted animals that are kept in municipal kennels, even healthy ones, can be put down after eight days if unclaimed. Tags: animal shelters portugal strays.

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APRIL 18, 2010

Only one of the interesting points in this opinion piece on animal research by Lee Schneider on the Huffington Post. Only three accredited medical schools in the whole country use animals to teach surgery. Harvard and Yale don't see the need to use (or kill) animals, so why do those three schools still do it?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

I recently got an email from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. They are pioneering legislation in California to make public animal abuse registries. The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) today announced an effort aimed at creating public registries in each state of anyone convicted of felony animal abuse. COTATI, CALIF. –

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The story says millions of animals may have died. There's no doubt across that scale of landscape and given the intensity of the fires, millions of animals would have been killed," he said. Tags: australia animal rescue wildfires wildlife. We are losers. They're the ones your hearts really go out to.".

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

Yesterday, regarding being a minority within a minority , mikey commented (among other things): While I am fairly new subscriber to this blog, therefore not knowing your particular stance, I've often felt like a minority within a minority for my stance on animal birth control. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

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MARCH 8, 2009

He and some friends were trying to take a shortcut and climbed over a fence with signs warning of predatory animals. Tags: darwin award tigers. Another Darwin Award nominee. They didn't believe the signs because they couldn't see any.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 3, 2010

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) energy healing is a gentle, painless, yet powerful modality that works on all living things – human and animal. Animals in particular are receptive to Reiki, because they have a higher energy frequency running through their bodies than humans do. Other times the animal will become invigorated and energized.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

California recently passed a law protecting animal researchers from animal activists. Ralph Freeman has killed cats and kittens in his laboratory at UC Berkeley with no benefit for humans for over twenty years. These animals are denied movement and cut open for his insane, unscientific studies. This law changes NOTHING.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare."

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JUNE 16, 2010

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? If they are "only" animals, if they are beasts which abstract not, then my comparison is a piece of sentimental foolishness. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. These chimps are healthy and well-fed.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

If you think it's fun killing animals in your own forest in Austria and bring them to your hunting estate, we will destroy it. Tags: ALF. It hasn't been your week has it, Daniel? Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. We will attack your private life wherever possible.

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JULY 16, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty idiocy. Good riddance.

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MARCH 10, 2009

I recently had a discussion about medical research using animals. There is more and more evidence that animal testing is NOT necessarily the best route to take. Even if there are certain situations in which animal testing is the only option, ie. Tags: animal experimentation medical research monkeys.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 8, 2009

I would have thought serial poaching and serial killing were essentially the same, with the difference being the species, but this article says there is a difference. Brian Golie, FWP game warden in Wolf Creek,classifies serial poachers as people who target trophy animals and will do anything to kill them.

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. Tags: UK animal research military pigs. From the BBC News. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has defended its use of more than 100 pigs in explosive tests in Wiltshire. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009.

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MAY 30, 2010

The father in both cases is the same orca that killed its trainer a few months ago. Tags: Seaworld florida marine animals Orcas PETA. PETA protesters were in front of SeaWorld-Orlando where two orcas are now pregnant.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2008

1 says Vick actually placed family pets in the ring against pit bulls owned by "Bad Newz Kennels" and watched as the animals ruthlessly attacked the domesticated dogs causing "major injuries." Tags: Michael Vick dog fighting. In just released report, a person identified as confidential witness No. Here's hoping he dies broke and alone.

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2010

Let's deconstruct: What we have here is the myth that killing animals in the wild and then eating them is somehow a compassionate act. When one calls animals of any kind a "problem," that's usually code for: they're inconvenient or they're a nuisance to us or they are in some other way reminding us that they exist.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

"Animals and humans suffer and die alike. If you had to kill your own calf before you ate it, most likely you would not be able to do it. To hear the calf scream, to see the blood spill, to see the baby being taken away from its momma, and to see the look of death in the animal's eye would turn your stomach.

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