Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

"We applaud the dedicated efforts of animal welfare advocates who stepped up to take in these animals, and hope that the exposure of this situation will underscore the need for stricter enforcement to protect animals in research facilities." Tags: animal abuse animal research cats North Carolina dogs PETA.

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury. They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

Puerto Rico is eager to rid itself of the estimated 2,000 patas and rhesus monkeys that have taken a toll on wildlife and agriculture in the Lajas Valley since escaping from nearby research centers 30 years ago. "We Tags: zoos baghdad primates. We will give them all the monkeys they want," said Sgt. We don't have a problem with that."

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Critter News

MARCH 23, 2009

It was an "experiment" you see, even though they are just Animal Control, not a research facility. Tags: animal cruelty Stupid USDA animal welfare us. How should Animal Control evaluate their claim? Stick another dog in the same situation and see if it dies too! Weather conditions were also similar.

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2010

Macy's, Gap and Liz Claiborne Inc are among the big names to warn of their ''growing alarm'' and frustration over the backdown by the marketing and research body Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) from its promise in 2005 to replace mulesing with a commercially viable alternative by the end of this year. From the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And what follows, as you might imagine, is his support of "ethical meat" (for those who insist on eating animals). However, Foer does claim to have spent a couple of years researching and it is odd to me that the only subject of animal rights discussion is an organization that is ambiguous, at best, in its message about animals.

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