Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week. Plus, animals are messy, require feeding and constant care, draw protests, and, yes, can be a bit smelly. They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy. The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science.

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Animal Research Research Medical Research Animal 100

Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

The inaugural winner would be John Carbonaro, who found an article called " Slaughterhouse in Buffalo Wins Zoning Approval." Felicia Horton inquires/protests: "If they're cutting up [animals], are you going to want to come up front an eat some meat?" Perhaps all sandwich shops should be housed in abattoirs.

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Buffalo Lamb Goats Protest 100

Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products.

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Foie Gras Seals Protest Protesting 100

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

If you can get through the article's pernicious nonsense, there are some salient points, albeit the result of confusion on the part of the author. However, both his perceptions and misconceptions are based on: 1) observing the work of PeTA and HSUS; and 2) the assumption that those two organizations are in the same category--"animal rights."

Animal Rights 100

Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

More dramatically memorable is Dunn’s experience in Bolivia, where he hoped to travel to Chalalan Lodge, an eco-lodge run by the local indigenous population, but ends up facing the 2019 election protests with blockades and a threat of violence at every road leaving the city. Still, I would really love to see this in some form.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Letters and emails by the thousand poured into the commissioners’ offices, protesting its crane hunting proposal. Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 241

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

Maybe they have decided to boycott species with Russian-sounding names as a way to protest against Putin’s policies. The photo of a relative of the Grey-capped Greenfinch is featured in an article on how being around birds is linked to lasting mental health benefits. Evil people in Southern China catch the bird and eat it.

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Monkeys Birds South Korea Owls 147