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Sri Lanka Attempts to Establish Animal Research Guidelines

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Last Monday (January 18, 2010), this country reached a milestone with regard to animal research when a booklet on the ‘Guidelines for Ethics Review of Research Proposals Involving Animals in Sri Lanka’, was launched at a simple ceremony held at the Colombo Medical Faculty presided over by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof.

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Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act Passed House Judiciary

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It amazes me that legislative business is still being conducted in DC these days, what with the US economic sky falling. Tags: horse animal cruelty legislation Slaughterhouse us. Especially animal business. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.1

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But universities and scientists are not always there working for pure learning or the improvement of humanity. Similar legislation permitted the NIH itself to enter into deals with drug companies that would directly transfer NIH discoveries to industry. There may be a business component there as well.

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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

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As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. million in the late 1990’s.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

That animal product is human breast milk. Human breast milk is a near perfect food for human newborns and infants. 105-6) Dr. Spock is not alone in his endorsement of breast-feeding human infants. There simply is no dispute in the medical community that human breast milk is the best food a human infant can be fed.

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