Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
Comuzzie, a nationally prominent obesity researcher and geneticist at Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, recently induced metabolic syndrome — risk factors associated with the human epidemic of diabetes and heart disease — by making the baboons' high-fat diet tastier and adding a sweet drink flavored with high-fructose corn syrup.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. Navy wiped out every single rat on Midway Atoll, seabirds flourished afterwards.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2014
What right do we have to even exist when our very existence as humanity is what has caused a rate of extinction not seen except during cataclysmic events? Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Keep cats outdoors?
Critter News
MAY 28, 2009
Homemakers employ deadly rat traps and poisons to rid their dwellings of vermin. In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 1, 2013
Humans, and the rats, pigs, goats, dogs, cats, snakes, mosquitos and disease they bring with them have wiped out species after species on islands. The wren’s existence as known to humans was all too brief. Island ecologies develop in fairly closed systems. The Stephen’s Island Wren is one of of a long list.
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