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LA Times "Rodent of the Week" Simply PR for Animal Research

Critter News

Rodent of the Week" supposedly highlights the "good things" that come out of animal research. But even this peppy little piece discusses the weaknesses of animal research. Tags: Los Angeles animal research. Here's a weird little piece I came across. Clearly, a PR instrument. So why not just end it?

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Aniweb Roundup

4 The Love Of Animals

If you do, then you may have met a lot of fun anipals including an ROUS (rodent of unusual size). Come read Caplin’s take on being a social animal online ! Visit Paws Around The World to learn about the Paw Pawty that helps raise money for animals through Twitter. Come visit our guest post on the awesome Paw Talk website.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

10,000 Birds

Notably, this is a vey small number compared to the number of rodents killed by the same cats. By-catch is the catchy word for animals that are killed from fishing that are not the fish being fished. billion birds, plus or minus more than a billion, are killed by cats every year in the US.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

He differentiates those animals from what he calls "the cute animals" which is important and one of the few passages that I appreciated in this series. The fact that we care about--and fight for--animals based on how cute we have deemed them to be is disgraceful. But the question is how can we properly address that?