Critter News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

He's helping to investigate possible drug cures for obesity. He said this research, along with other research that could vastly improve human quality of life, could absolutely not be done without animal testing, and wishes more people understood that “animal research is not cruel or inhumane, it benefits us all.”

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Animal Research Research Inhumane Animal Cruelty 100

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Humanity Even for Nonhumans ,” by Nicholas D. If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. Animals raised for food suffer miserably.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

As reported in the AP story, two styles of Sean John jackets—one a hooded snorkel style, the other a classic version—were originally advertised as faux fur, but an investigation by the Humane Society of the United States [ HSUS ] found that the jackets were made from dog fur. Why is the dog subjected to such unspeakable cruelty?

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Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40