10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2014
Mice/rats in your house or business? Call the pest control company. A company representative will come to your door and tell you the poisons they use are “safe.” When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. .” Alert: they’re lying. What to do?
Critter News
DECEMBER 27, 2010
I recently fostered the sweetest little rat and I currently have two mice. And, of course, our old friend, Charles River Laboratories, will be a major supplier of lab rats. While both rats and mice have similarities to humans, rats win out in key areas. Therefore, this Boston Globe article saddens me on both levels.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2014
But at the last minute Reckitt-Benckiser pulled a fast one and contested the decision, leaving the company holding the gold ring – a monopoly on the most-toxic market. In April 2014, a 4-year-old boy in the Bronx, New York, died after eating rat poison. Banner photo by Dave Harper; second by Suzie Gilbert; third by RATS.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Perhaps not surprisingly, the poison companies seem to be hiding behind Teflon shields about the problems with their products.
Critter News
APRIL 7, 2009
For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s. car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s.
Critter News
MAY 31, 2010
A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. That's why he created rats and monkeys. This is pretty vile in my opinion. From the AP. The plans by India's Vivo BioTech Ltd.
Critter News
OCTOBER 17, 2009
The company had been a target of animal activists since video footage surfaced on television in the 1990s depicting animal abuse at its laboratory in the United Kingdom. Huntingdon used mostly mice and rats , but also some dogs, monkeys, fish and guinea pigs , in its research in New Jersey.
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