Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

"It's not as much about what the animal rights activists are saying about how we are raising pigs as opposed to us demonstrating that we do care and we are giving the best possible care" she said. The pork industry does not make money from happy pigs, but from dead carcasses. I have a hard time with the logic of that statement.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 20, 2009

It can spread to other pets however, such as turkeys and pigs. You should also be careful if you have a pet bird as they have sensitive respiratory systems that are susceptible to other human illnesses (such as colds). Tags: Care2 Articles. Continue reading at Care2.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go.

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

Riddle me this: Why would any human animal use as a default position that nonhuman animals do not have personalities as rich, distinct, obnoxious, obsequious and varied as human animals? Why is it surprising that nonhuman animals have personalities when human animals do? No one is assigning human traits to nonhumans.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. It certainly doesn't fill me with confidence in these people's skills in compassion and humane care. Tags: animal experimentation mice Guinea Pigs medical research biotech. In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Earlier this year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it will offer a $1 million X Prize for the creation of affordable, humane, and "commercially viable" test-tube meat by 2012. These harvested cells are taken from an animal, such as a pig, and placed in a "nutrient-rich medium" that mimics blood.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

“California voters have taken a stand for decency and compassion and said that the systemic mistreatment of animals on factory farms cannot continue," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, the primary back of the YES! All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food.”

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm us.

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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.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

It's just another excuse people have concocted because they like the taste of cow/pig/chicken/fish flesh. Yes, it is hypocritical (speciesism), but who said that we either protect humans or animals? All they do thereafter is replace cows with chickens and pigs and fish. Where do people get that idea? What do you think?

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Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

We humans have decided that, for a combination of reasons that are important to us, cats are worthy of our respect. I can't think of another animal so hated by humans that they have actually created an industry to publicize their hatred and their wish to hurt and kill them. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. The animals on farms are created for the sole purpose of human consumption. It's not pretty.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

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. Tags: animal cruelty Michael Vick animal rights. I think we have it backward.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

In other words, horses, like pigs and cows and chickens, are commodities whose worth has a dollar value to people, and we should be doing what we can do maximize that dollar value. And it’s much more humane than leaving them there to starve to death.”. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

Their claim is that what has become the customary way to take sentient nonhumans from babyhood to untimely death is not humane. No one needs to eat sentient beings, so it's not as if these "farmers" are providing a valuable service to humanity. I wouldn't do it to a dog, and I shouldn't do it to a chicken/sheep/cow/pig.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Masson tells Benjy's story--and Benjy stories--while explaining his theory about the mutual domestication of dogs and humans. You may know that dog/human coevolution has been a popular topic in the past decade, and if so, this might help: Masson "takes E. The point is that, as Chapter 3 is titled, "Dogs Make Us Human."

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

If you're going to call something an anthropological adventure, it would make sense to teach the kids about the other animals humans eat and give the kids the opportunity to prepare and eat dog, cat and monkey, no? Perhaps they are taught that other cultures eat animals other than cows, chickens, fish and pigs, I don't know.

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Animal Person

MARCH 26, 2009

Now, mind you there are people who are actually mentally ill in the sense they 'can't get it up' without thinking of their mate as a fantasized non-human animal, I should mention this also includes mythological animals. This occurs in all animal breeders: bovine, horses, dogs, cats, pigs, and other animals. Tags: Ethics.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2010

Vetsulin was the perfect new product, except for the fact that it's animal (pig) based, unlike human insulins, and then there was the problem with quality control that was first reported last year. Tags: Current Affairs Greyhound Matters. Though there was no actual recall, everyone using Vetsulin was told to be vigilant.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

And the production of her insulin (Vetsulin) involved the use of animal products (from pigs). And that food has led to a decrease in her insulin dose (as also happens with humans), so I know it's improving her health (she'll be ten in a couple of weeks!). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If some microorganisms must be killed in the process, this is unfortunate but necessary for human life. Why should microorganisms be sacrificed rather than humans? Why is human life more valued than the life of microorganisms? One might be inclined to say that human beings are more valuable because of their intelligence.

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