Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animal research. My personal philosophy is that millions of animals shouldn't suffer on anyone's behalf, especially when they do so against their will.

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Critter News

MARCH 23, 2009

How should Animal Control evaluate their claim? It was an "experiment" you see, even though they are just Animal Control, not a research facility. To re-create and measure the environmental conditions, Animal Control staff put a dog from the pound, of similar size and weight to the dead dog, in the same holding cage for an hour.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Here's another experiment using mice to determine whether stress and chemicals in plastic is leading to messed up male genitals and, therefore, infertility.

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. For all we know, occasional viable crosses between humans and chimpanzees are possible.* If such off-spring are ever produced, what will their legal status be?

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

Once we are no longer so advanced, should we then be valued less and then subjected to experiments for this new and "unique" species of the future? Why are rapists and pedophiles given dignity and respect when animals, who are innocent, denied the same? Are there even more unique versions of humanity on their way? How about this?

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