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Vast Majority of Medical Schools Do NOT Use Animals To Teach Surgery

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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? Pippin told me.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

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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Cute of the Day: Alexis and Jacob

4 The Love Of Animals

We walked into the Adopt a Pet in Knoxville Tennessee and fell in love with Alexis and Jacob. We challenge all emptynesters in Knoxville Tennessee to do something awesome and adopt a pet. Cute of the Day: Alexis and Jacob originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on March 5, 2010.

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The Power of Pets Initiative

4 The Love Of Animals

Mars Petcare and Human-Animal Interaction. For decades, Mars Petcare – through its world-renowned WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition – has led the way in research in Human-Animal Interaction (HAI), the scientific field that studies the bond between humans and companion animals. Tags: events. Headquartered in McLean, Va.,

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# We fought them back in Tennessee; there’s a two-year stay on their proposal. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. photo by Cyndi Routledge Here it is then, another angle on the proposed sandhill crane seasons in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin.

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