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Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting

Critter News

An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. The school has not listed any non-human primates in this category from 2005 to 2009, according to the complaint.

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ALF Activists Glue Locks of U Cal Primate Researcher

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We will increase our level of tactics as long as non-human primates and other animals are tortured to death at the hands of those driven by profit and as long as the University of California shows a complete disregard for the suffering of the non-human prisoners.

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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money

Critter News

Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 17-24) exposes their plight and the broken federal research funding system that perpetuates outdated animal experiments at the expense of modern and more humane technologies.

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The Urban Birds of Austin, Texas

10,000 Birds

It’s a strange experience looking up from a city street to gaze at birds native to South America; even more ironic considering humans drove the only native parrot/parakeet species, the Carolina Parakeet , to extinction. After all, part of getting to know any city is learning its non-human inhabitants!

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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

Animal Person

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. In my experience there are at least a handful of issues that involve compromise when the idea of veganism collides with real life. Hence, it's a Gray Matter.) And this is one of them.

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Robert Young on Killing Animals

Animal Ethics

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? I believe it does help.

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

10,000 Birds

That is when he hit upon the idea of a non-human serving as the chorus: I did not fail to perceive, in short, that the difficulty lay in the reconciliation of this monotony with the exercise of reason on the part of the creature repeating the word. .&# Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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