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PETA Settlement over Shelter Records

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The money will cover a portion of PETA's legal fees for a lawsuit the group filed in January about animals that had been sold by the county shelter for research purposes. PETA will have access to the requested records. The settlement provides limited protections for the county from further litigation.

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Research Animals Rescued from North Carolina Lab

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Awful story, but this is the reason I support PETA, even when they do wacky things sometimes. Tags: animal abuse animal research cats North Carolina dogs PETA. Their investigations produce results. From the PR Newswire.

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PETA Suing Utah County

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They're trying to get documentation regarding the 100 dogs and cats sold to the University of Utah for medical experiments.

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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

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Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. From the AP.

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New Podcast Uploaded for 01/30/10

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In this week's podcast ending January 30, 2010: **A Mercy for Animals video spurs calls for a ban on tail docking in the State of New York; **Animal rights activists try to stop construction of a bullfighting ring in Beijing; **A PETA protestor gets a pie in the face for protesting against the Canadian seal hunt; **And legislation is proposed in China (..)

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Texas Tech Allowed to Withhold Info on Animal Testing

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PETA was trying to get the information to find out why the university is buying cats and dogs from a West Texas animal shelter for university training or research. The university also purchased dogs from the shelter up until 2007, Carruth said. I bet there's probably some ugly stuff in those records.

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University of Utah Continues Getting Bad Press

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Investigative journalism by the Salt Lake Tribune, following-up on allegations levelled by PETA against the University of Utah's Comparative Medicine Center and the Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute laboratories revealed the two laboratories had used 190 dogs and cats in 2009, all obtained from shelters.

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