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Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?

Critter News

At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. They have drug companies that are just as powerful as those here. Is public outcry greater? What gives? From Cordis News.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Why would publicizing the ill treatment of slaughter-bound horses detract from the “undue suffering of other food animals,” as Christa Weil suggests? Our American horses are not being shipped to the hungry in Africa; they are being served in the most pricey restaurants in France, Belgium and Japan.

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“Christmas in June” – Brasserie au Baron: Saint-Médard Cuvée de Noël

10,000 Birds

He was also apparently much disposed to laughter and is often portrayed with his mouth wide open; for this reason, he’s also invoked by sufferers of dental maladies such as toothache. But it’s for the lore concerning the weather on his June 8th feast day that Saint Medardus is best known today, by those who remember him at all.

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