Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week. Indeed, it often isn't even the best science: New drugs that show great promise in mice, for example, often confer zero benefit to humans, or even prove harmful. They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy. This is an important issue.

Animal Research 100

Animal Research Research Medical Research Animal 100

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.

2011 245

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Meat-packing companies might encourage, for example, an increased dog population to take up the slack. It has been recently reported in the Boston Globe (Jane O’Reilly, “The Bottle and the 3rd World,” July 8, 1976, p. Certainly, not eating meat could have this protest function. causing a decline in U.S. milk production.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Protest Protesting 40