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Anti-Vivisection Activists Address Scottish Parliament

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Dr Ray Greek, President of Americans for Medical Advancement and consultant Dr Andre Menache will be joining the animal charity in asking MSP's and the Scottish Government to take urgent action to end the use of animals in experiments. We requested data from the Home Office on animal experiments in Scotland and the figures are grim.".

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New Book Shows Mark Twain an Early Advocate Against Animal Cruelty

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Another text in the book--from an unpublished piece of autobiographical writing -- makes it clear that Twain based this account on an experience he had himself as a child (“Assassin”). The book also contains writings by Twain against vivisection. Tags: anti-cruelty. Interesting. You can buy it here.

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Animal Rights Activists Attack Berkeley Vet

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We acted against Timmel because he is a veterinarian in UC Berkeley's vivisection labs. Tags: ALF. And to Nina Hahn, David Rieger, Walter Brown II, Stephen Friet, Helen Diggs, Delonzo Starks, Quig Driver, and the rest of the Office of Laboratory Animal Care sadists; don't think that you or your property will be spared.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

Jentsch talks about the cost ("it's hard to put a price tag on") of protecting those like him, so we definitely know that the tactics of those who seek to defend animals are working on one level (economic harm, though once removed at least in this situation). Then he and the interviewer describe some of the experiments.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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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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When You Have to Make a Choice About Your Beliefs

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She has no issues with vivisection either. And researching the company she works for makes me wonder whether the clinical trials she sells actually include animal experiments. Tags: animal research. [link] I don't want to go into details, but it's bad. And it's only one of the few we know about. She supports this.