Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

Around 12 million animals are used each year in the European Union (EU) for research purposes. 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.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Her letter to the Indian research facility is pretty distressing. Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. Sounds like she watched a harsh video.

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

I occasionally read Scienceblog when there is mention of animal research issues. It's a site that, according to its own description, is half reader blogs and half press releases from research institutions. I'm not going into why I do not support animal research. If you oppose it, then I'm preaching to the choir.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. Tags: ethics animal rights medical research. I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

She supports medical research on animals. One scene has the author entering the part of the hospital where the research animals are. This woman, who I now mentally call "THE VIVISECTOR," defended medical research. The descriptions of the research subjects are very roundabout, but still horrific to me.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research. Tags: animal experimentation animal research activism animal rights medical research. Get FOIAed Up!

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 20, 2010

Because Violet and Charles are chock full of medical issues, they have a handful of specialists. Charles had a corn on his pad), he's happy for me to bring him some research and for us to tackle the issue together (we did this with the corn and removed it together--and no charge, by the way). My vet asks every time I go.)

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. My objection is: Why do such research when you don't need to?

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. This does not mean that animals may never be deliberately harmed or become subjects of research. They may be used in benign research such as teaching chimpanzees to understand and use sign language.

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Critter News

MAY 2, 2012

An animal-rights group that watchdogs research facilities across the country has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, citing multiple incidents in which animals were injured, escaped from their cages or were found dead.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Well-planned vegan diets are healthful for pregnant mothers and their infants, as well as for older children, according to a large body of scientific research. The medical journal Lancet recently published findings showing that children who are not adequately nourished in the first five years of life sometimes never catch up to their peers.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

There is as yet no medical research showing the cost of several extra years of hormones flooding the system. To the Editor: What parent or teacher has not noticed that girls are maturing far earlier than they used to? Years are being stolen from their childhoods.

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Animal Person

JULY 29, 2009

I'll think about it as I research cameras. As for neighbors, a couple of years ago I wrote about how my next-door neighbor's daughter, who is in medical school, visited her parents and brought a puppy (Izzy) from a pet store with her. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Any advice?

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

This is one of the reasons why we are still on the losing end of the battle with animal researchers. Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics medical research science. We don't speak their language as well as they do and society at large tends to listen to those who sound like they are "experts."

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. There simply is no dispute in the medical community that human breast milk is the best food a human infant can be fed. Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much.

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