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Captive Primate Safety Act Passes House

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Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for sponsoring the measure that will prohibit the trade in non human primates. Tags: primates. Mark Markarian, as usual, has an excellent roundup. Special shout out to Rep. There is a list of reasonable exemptions, which you can read about here.

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Situation Critical for Zimbabwe Wildlife

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War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. Tags: bush meat poaching zimbabwe wildlife. In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos.

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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money

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Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 17-24) exposes their plight and the broken federal research funding system that perpetuates outdated animal experiments at the expense of modern and more humane technologies.

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Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting

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The school has not listed any non-human primates in this category from 2005 to 2009, according to the complaint. Tags: animal research Stop Animal Exploitation Now Harvard Medical School Southborough Department of Agriculture primates.

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Activists in Mexico Bomb Max Mara Store

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raised in the infernal fur farms, which are nothing more than concentration camps, where non-human animals are subjugated and forced to live a life of torture and imprisonment waiting for their murder, sick and crazed due to the denial of their wild natures. Tags: fur ALF. You can read more about that here.

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Debate Over Injured Dog Video

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I think that such haters can't bear a non-human being heroic. It begs the question of the uniqueness of humanity and, of course, themselves. Not other humans in general, but themselves. Tags: dogs. There are a lot of animal haters out there. Some people claim the second dog is simply going to eat the injured dog.

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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

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When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. Meanwhile, I would love to be able to have some kind of law against human beings producing/reproducing more than one person per person. But who cares about me? What do you all t hink?