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. 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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Experience Experiments Medical Research Animal Research 100

Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Another animal experiment I would not support as a US taxpayer. The research project, led by Jack Bergman of McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Belmont, Mass., If we are going to subject animals to great suffering (radiation for heaven's sake), don't let it be for something like this.

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Throughout the book, Keith mocks vegetarians and vegans.

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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 Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? In other words, the perception of pain is affected. And of course, the reality that all of this involves using sentient nonhumans when that's unnecessary isn't even considered.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 267

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I particularly enjoyed the story involving the Satyr Tragophan , not because I enjoy painful stories of high medical bills so much as if you are going to come a cropper of a bird it may as well be a good looking one (as with birding with life in general really). A young bird contemplates a future of attacking humans in a funny field.

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