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Military Used Pigs in Brain Injury Research

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The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tags: rats animal experimentation military pigs. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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On Flourless Cakes and Injuries

Animal Person

What we couldn't see until her leg was shaved was that next to the deep wound is a large bloody bump of a wound. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters. And so we ended up with this--. And after a $250 vet trip it became this--. It's all good, and we'll get through this just fine.

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Starlings and Eagles

10,000 Birds

It required a bit of an ethical adjustment. Any bird that was wounded — and a bander could often prevent that fate by firing the net quickly enough — was nursed back to health. Here I was, sitting patiently in a blind, watching a tethered European Starling on a string. Enough to draw the attention of a predator.

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