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Coast Guard Defends Medical Practice on Animals

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The Coast Guard is defending its practice of using live animals in its combat medical training after an activist group released a video on Wednesday of a goat’s legs being removed with tree trimmers during what it said was training for agency personnel. The courses do involve “live tissue training using live animals,” Lt.

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"Earthlings" Available as Audio Book

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Though the film was initially ignored by distributors, who told Monson that the film would “never see the light of day and should be swept under the rug,” today Earthlings has earned awards from film festivals both nationwide and internationally, the Humane Society of the United States uses Earthlings as a training film in their orientation for new (..)

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

I’m not writing this to rant against PETA (god knows enough people do that), in fact their stance on feral cats is comparatively progressive compared to some of their counterparts, although they aren’t exactly on the anti-cat train most birders are on. Obviously its perfectly fine to concentrate on one particular problem (i.e.