Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Here is a New York Times story about people who keep primates as pets.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

"In the middle of the war, animals are the least of anyone's concern," said Lisa Wathne, spokeswoman for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tags: zoos baghdad primates.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Here are some highlights: Mantle: "How do you respond to: Yeah, you may find something that benefits humans, but it's not worth it and it's not ethically right?" He then says he goes to "exceptional lengths" to make ensure the physical and psychological welfare of the primates he uses, "except when it's absolutely necessary" to harm them.

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Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

If the directive is approved, the number of animals used for experiments will be limited, and the animals’ welfare will be improved in accordance with ethical principles of the EU concerning animals.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Charles Larson fused monkeys' necks to their skulls and deprived them food five days per week to make them cry out in a specific manner according to Concerned Citizens for Ethical Research? Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates. At a tax payer cost of $472,370? Even as his colleagues scoffed?

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? What further properties must he show before religious missionaries must consider him worthy of attempts at conversion?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Plus, are mice comparable to kids (although I would prefer mice subjects to primates who are so much more sensitive)? Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics mice medical research. Are parents who are not paying attention to their kids suddenly going to send them to bed because they might get depressed?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

She said that there were guidelines on how to treat animals and that, in medical ethics, they are considered "sacrifices." I went to someone's house and found out that a friend of theirs works for the University of Washington Primate Center, a horrific place with a TERRIBLE reputation for treatment of animal subjects.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It broke my heart to see the suffering that is documented in the enclosed video", wrote Anderson, in a letter sent on behalf of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Deka, director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after watching a video allegedly exposing animal cruelty at the New Delhi centre. "It

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

As an intelligent primate, I’d much rather be an ambassador for my species in a secure environment—served the best food and tended to by top-notch veterinarians—than take my chances in a national park where poverty and corruption result in little or no protection for the non-human residents. Many sanctuaries do not permit breeding.

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APRIL 15, 2015

Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

In fact, the Language Research Center at Georgia State University has engaged in continuous social, cognitive and biobehavioral research on primates, including language training and research, since 1981. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.”

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