Critter News

APRIL 19, 2012

I knew the military in general used animals for combat medical practice.hadn't thought of the Coast Guard though. The courses do involve “live tissue training using live animals,” Lt. PETA leads the charge against the Coast Guard. For the full story, go here to the Washington Post.

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Critter News

MAY 26, 2009

Nice article about people who are committed to defending "lab rats" used for medical research. You see people shut down if you talk about how a rat can suffer," says Chad Sandusky, director of toxicology and research at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that fights for animal rights and advocates vegetarianism.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

So, I belong to this book group of 5 to 7 women. I've been with the group for a while and it's not bad. There is one member of this group who works for a pharmaceutical company. She supports medical research on animals. One scene has the author entering the part of the hospital where the research animals are.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. Of course, "That's not to say dogs didn't have their niche in biomedicine. Part III: Pepper Goes to Washington. And for what?

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