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JULY 5, 2010

On Friday, the beagles — owned by a research facility in New Jersey whose parent pharmaceutical company went into bankruptcy — were released to the care of animal rescue groups that, after socializing them, hope to adopt them out as family pets. Tags: animal research dogs Best Friends animal laboratories.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Veterinary Services director Abdul Aziz Jamaludin said the company will be ordered to shut down if his department finds animals were subject to abuse, the Sunday Star newspaper reported. "If Tags: animal research malaysia.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

As you might remember, Bioculture—a company that supplies primates to laboratories—plans to capture monkeys from their homes in Mauritius, hold them captive in Puerto Rico, and then sell thousands of their babies for use in painful and deadly experiments around the world. Tags: animal experimentation.

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JULY 26, 2009

Substantial numbers of animals are used to test the safety of new drugs before they are allowed to be used in human trials. Tags: animal experimentation UK drug companies medical research biotech.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

From PETA's site: A new PETA undercover investigation inside a Land O'Lakes supplier facility in Pennsylvania has revealed routine neglect and cruelty to cows who are milked for the Fortune 250 company's products. And the disturbing video: Tags: animal cruelty PETA.

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MARCH 26, 2009

The county has a contract with R&R Research in Howard City to euthanize the county's unwanted animals. In return, the company can use some of the unwanted dogs for animal research. The animal shelter committee voted to end the contract, but it goes before the County commissioners in April.

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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. Tags: animal research animal laboratories malaysia. This is pretty vile in my opinion. From the AP.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Instead, DeMuth will plead guilty to conspiring to damage a Minnesota company that breeds ferrets. Tags: animal research animal enterprise terrorism act FBI. DeMuth was originally charged in connection with a 2004 lab break-in at the University of Iowa that caused more than $400,000 in damage.

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MARCH 6, 2009

The company said it was consulting employees about proposals to reduce its global workforce by 275 jobs to make the business more efficient. I had read one of her books and had often pointed to her company as an example of a successful marriage between ethics and business. The Body Shop is causing some headaches for L'Oreal right now.

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APRIL 4, 2009

The NC3Rs is an independent organisation, reporting to the Science Minister and stakeholders through the publication of an annual report, and is funded by the following organisations - MRC, BBSRC, Home Office, Wellcome Trust, ABPI, GSK, AstraZeneca, Unilever, The Dow Chemical Company, SC Johnson, Syngenta.

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JULY 19, 2009

If you and a friend GO ON THE WEB AND RESEARCH THE COMPANY whose practices you plan to protest, you may have just become a terrorist. Tags: animal enterprise terrorism act.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) conducted the initial investigation[2] that exposed the apparent cruelty at Professional Laboratory and Research Services, an inconspicuous rural lab funded by large pharmaceutical companies to test insecticides and other chemicals used in companion animal products.

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JUNE 1, 2009

The report further stated that Sargeant’s company purchased $1000 worth of gift certificates to a fancy restaurant and gave them to Harmon in 2005. He used a company check to purchase another $1,000 gift certificate, which he gave to Harmon in 2006.

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MARCH 27, 2009

For example, companies may have to pay upwards of a half-million dollars to perform an endocrine disruption screening on individual chemicals, as may be required by the end of the year for chemicals that include food use pesticides, but the new approach may trim the cost to about $20,000. The only way we can study some things is in animals."

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). Tags: animal experimentation mice Guinea Pigs medical research biotech.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

But as far as they are concerned, I am still an animal rights terrorist for the mere fact that I disagree with them. She is a data tech for a clinical testing company (for profit by the way.) The title of this article is "Researchers to animal-rights activists: We are not afraid." I'm sorry, but I am not moved.

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JULY 25, 2009

This statement is mainly motivated by a recent conversation with someone who has a science degree (I think it's biology), but who actually works for a clinical testing company. Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics medical research science. She's always talking about Darwin and DNA testing.)

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MARCH 7, 2009

And researching the company she works for makes me wonder whether the clinical trials she sells actually include animal experiments. Tags: animal research. She supports this. She has no issues with vivisection either. I am so sorry because I do enjoy the group and you three are so dear to me.

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