Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2011

A Pearson International Airport employee tipped off the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection that a shipment of monkeys destined for Montreal was being held at the Toronto airport after arriving from China on Saturday. Air Canada is one of a small number of airlines that continues to transport these primates, Kite said.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 16, 2009

From the review: Twain writes about cruelty to animals in a range of contexts, criticizing, for example, the insensitivity involved in the exploitation of animals for sport or entertainment. The book also contains writings by Twain against vivisection. Interesting. You can buy it here.

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Critter News

JULY 18, 2009

Here is one example. When Paul Farmer was a medical student, he had to do a vivisection. Over the years, I've noticed that the role of animals jumps out at me in any book I read. It may be just a couple of pages or even a couple of sentences, but it's enough to make a lasting impression. He was disturbed by it.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

A combination of tactics will force these people to stop torturing animals, he says, and even mentions an example of a researcher who took up non-animal alternatives as a result. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Animal Liberation Front animal rights David Jentsch Jerry Vlasak UCLA vivisection. No surprise there.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 24, 2008

They had a direct effect on seventeenth-century behavior as manifested, for example, in the popularity of public vivisections, not as an aid to scientific discovery but simply as a technical display. These teachings, it should be observed, were more than metaphysical speculations.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 25, 2008

But they now turn around the question what is to count as "making animals suffer unnecessarily," whether, for example, vivisection or fox-hunting are, in these terms, morally justifiable. Controversies no doubt remain.

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