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Weekend Protest Against the Oregon National Primate Research Center

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Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!"

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UC Davis Named in Criminal Complaint for Mistreatment of Lab Animals

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The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations. Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty.

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Humane Society Calls for Refuge for 9 Chimps

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Jeff Rowell, NIRC director, in an e-mail Wednesday} "said the nine remaining animals are being housed as a family group at the center with access to indoor-outdoor caging. Tags: chimpanzees animal research humane society chimp haven new iberia research center primates. Interesting. percent of our DNA.

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Animal Rights Activists Burn Wrong Car

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A group calling itself Students and Workers for the Liberation of UCLA Primates burned 3 cars, none of which belonged to the individual they were targeting. Tags: ALF. ALF is disputing the notion that the wrong cars were hit.

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Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights

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I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc. I'm going to try and research other groups to see if there is a group that is more in line with the philosophy I'm trying to follow.

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European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research

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Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. The Commission had also proposed scaling back experiments on the 12,000 primates used each year, so they could only be used if the survival of their species was at stake or during an unexpected outbreak of life-threatening disease in humans.

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Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories

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I posted on this blog about quitting because of the New Iberia scandal in Louisiana in which the Humane Society found primates being abused. I had to stay in that group because she must be challenged. Tags: animal abuse animal enterprise terrorism act medical research. The other women wouldn't. I'm sorry, but I am not moved.