Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates. This is a long article from the Gainesville Sun.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 21, 2010

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. From the MetroWest Daily News.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2018

But my experiences in Belize and Honduras give me a good basis in the birds of the region and I have plenty of time to study and learn what to expect with the endemics. Then you learn if you got the answer right or wrong and, this is important, you rate the photo or sound clip before you get the next quiz.

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Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2010

Or, open to change, he can take the message in the ensuing pages to heart, let it shift his mind and stir his soul, and thus begin, right now, his advance toward freedom for all species (7)." Do animals have rights? Do human beings have duties toward them regardless of whether they have rights? What kind do we have?

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The practice gained wider publicity after the animal rights group PETA said earlier this month that 1 of its agents spent eight months working undercover at University of Utah research facilities. University officials say they only collect animals from shelters willing to participate and pound animals are steered toward nonlethal experiments.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. That's one result.

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Critter News

MAY 11, 2009

And it's especially the case in animal rights advocacy. But in my experience, it usually backfires, particularly with men. Tags: animal rights advocacy. There's always a dilemma in debating any issue as to whether one should rely on emotion or reason to advance one's argument. I can pack an emotional punch as well.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

Last night, I watched "Milk," the film about assassinated gay rights activist Harvey Milk. I not only learned about Harvey Milk, but about the early stages of the gay rights movement (which is ongoing today when one looks at all the right-wing flutterings over gay marriage.) Just the sorry animal rights movement.

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Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

One complaint many of us have with "liberals" and "progressives" is that they tend to leave veganism and animal rights out of their sphere of concern. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com).

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Critter News

JULY 10, 2010

The Union County sheriff's office said it had four veterinarians with experience in large-animal care review the tape. "In Phillips said threats of violence and murder made by animal-rights activists against the Conklins are still under review and information may be forwarded to the U.S. The criminal investigation isn't over, however.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 28, 2009

But there were many things that I didn’t realize she needed right off the bat. There are lots of dangers for a baby animal who experiences the world through its mouth, just as much as its eyes and ears. Tags: books. This page about what to do on your puppy’s first day was a huge help in getting a checklist in order.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

As if humans don't assess and judge things, people and experiences all day long and use those judgments to form a future course of action or decide which relationships they do and don't wish to pursue. However that doesn't make it right to use them. Abortion is legal in this country, yet millions of people don't think it's right.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs.

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Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

There were also reports that the zoo may have concentrated too hard on enhanced visitor experiences without being sure that exhibits were up to par — something that could have led to many of the deaths. The stingrays passed away right after an interactive display opened that let visitors put their hands on them.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. There are few animal rights stories in the news. No feathers: food.

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2009

Actually, I didn't quit neuroscience as a result of the experiences described, but I did quit working with animals. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical research. Bring on the PETA hotties!

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Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

Of course none of them come close to the most important reason for my objection: that we have no right to use animals for entertainment or other reasons that are not necessary. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights BBQ petting zoo pony rides veganism. They should never play poker.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

I've used the term "animal activism" lately as an experiment. I notice that if I use "animal rights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. We're "weighing the impact," and the "tactics have worked," right?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

And animal rights isn't focused on what happens in the world outside of us that we aren't directly profiting from and that isn't happening because of us (that last one is nearly impossible, as you can trace many problems other animals experience back to something human animals have done to them or their habitat or their food).

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

All of the former animal farmers come to the same conclusion: that what they were doing wasn't right. My experiences are unlike any of the film's subjects. I didn't have to do the slaughtering to know what it feels like to have participated in something for a good chunk of my life that wasn't right. For all of us.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is about using animals and presenting yet another variation on the theme of humans believing they have a right to make food, clothing or art from the body of other animals. And making it into some kind of spiritual experience is offensive. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. We should all be so lucky.”.

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Animal Person

MAY 12, 2009

So there was no traffic, no noise, and each day we awoke to the drama of the creatures who lived right outside our door. And by phase I mean I have intense and frequent experiences with them or around them that cause me to learn more about them than I thought I ever wanted to learn. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

… Tags: ducks , features , jamaica bay , migration , queens • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&# It was a great experience.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

mikey, my stance can be seen in the posts about Project Treadstone (and if you type Project Treadstone into the Google Search box just below my half-blind, diabetic greyhound, Violet Rays, on the right, you'll get a dozen more posts). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Hence, it's a Gray Matter.)

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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Pepper also represents a turning point in science, from an earlier age when animals for experiment would be plucked from the road or the river, to a new era of standardized, mass-produced organisms that can be shipped right to the laboratory door. Tags: Economics Ethics. Stay tuned. I look forward to the rest of the series.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

I don't disagree with Herbert, but what if I wrote: Most people don't want to hear about the capacity of nonhumans to experience pain, pleasure, boredom or frustration, and President Obama would rather walk through fire than do anything other than acquire a pure breed puppy or pardon a turkey on Thanksgiving (though that one remains to be seen).

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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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

On the contrary, if you are a traveling birder, you might just find your next birding destination right here on 10,000 Birds. PIP is situated right on a beautiful lake -- the place to be when its hot! Wicked, right? So, just because I’m being lazy, this does not mean that these posts will be of no use to you!

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2009

And they reach a lot of people who don't have animal rights on their radar but might stop using animals for food if they had something to gain (assuming a clearer conscience isn't something to gain). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. animals in research, in schools or as food).

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Animal Person

APRIL 29, 2009

In her blog yesterday she wrote of her experience accepting the award, and who she thanked and didn't thank. In my own defense, I was nervous, a bright floodlight shone right in my eyes, and I was worried because the mike seemed too low. Tags: Books Current Affairs Ethics.

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

This is great news for animal rights because it's one more piece of evidence that humans aren't as exceptional as we like to think we are. Tags: Current Affairs Language. Rather, we set out to understand what animals are like, and use the language and concepts that come closest to describing what we see" ( Wild Justice , 41).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

I spotted a Eurasian Wigeon amongst the American Wigeon right out of the gate, but that wasn’t the best sighting of the day. A First Christmas Bird Count Experience » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Wicked, right? You never know what you might see!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The birds that I have experience with, like some of the raptors, wading birds, shorebirds, and tanagers, are all true-to-life in color, shape, and proportions to say nothing of being pretty paintings, if slightly sterile on the standard plain white background. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Instead, he simply points at the cup on the right. Horowitz and other scientists are now running experiments to determine what a behavior, like a kiss, really means. Horowitz wondered if they behave this way because they truly recognize they’ve done something wrong, so she devised an experiment.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

My mother, mother-in-law, and godmother are all visiting right now. more migratory sky shots here ) Tags: march , weekend • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Salls Country Life Mar 19th, 2011 at 1:35 pm We are experiencing some incredible migratory bird watching right now. Wicked, right?

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Animal Person

MAY 3, 2009

Though I have never had an issue with gluten, I have decided to lower my intake of it as an experiment, just to see if I feel any kind of difference. Charles Hobson Booger, III has been to I believe 4 vets (some several times) and hasn't been able to use his back right leg for 5 months (and yes, atrophy has set in).

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