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Coast Guard Defends Medical Practice on Animals

Critter News

Live anesthetized goats have been used in Coast Guard training to treat combat wounds, but the agency could not verify if the video involved its personnel. The courses do involve “live tissue training using live animals,” Lt. Frederick, spokesman for the Atlantic Area, wrote in an email.

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On Flourless Cakes and Injuries

Animal Person

What we couldn't see until her leg was shaved was that next to the deep wound is a large bloody bump of a wound. And of course, Emily is just as opinionated and irritable as ever, and still shows no sign of dying from her FIP. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters. And so we ended up with this--.

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H. J. McCloskey on Punishment of Cruelty to Animals

Animal Ethics

It is, of course, arguable that the liberal who is prepared to allow state legislation against cruelty to animals is compromising his liberalism, even though it is typically in liberal societies that we find such legislation. Yet it is legislation that few of us should wish to condemn as lacking in justification. (It

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