Critter News
MARCH 31, 2010
Here's an article in Nature about how many animal studies with negative or inconclusive results go unpublished. It raises the question of how useful animal research really is if we only see the studies that show relevant results. Tags: animal research drug companies animal studies.
Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6 If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.
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Critter News
MARCH 19, 2009
"Our Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance Programs are designed to demonstrate the care we are giving to our animals everyday on our farms," Cunningham said. The only real concern comes from the spread of illness to humans from eating diseased meat, but they only need to provide minimal care to avoid that.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 8, 2009
But it certainly raised my awareness that animals are used in military trauma-training exercises. Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and poisoned every year in Department of Defense (DoD) training exercises designed to train medics and infantry in how to treat various human battlefield injuries.
Critter News
JULY 25, 2009
One of the issues raised by a member was that we need to listen to "science" more and that science will save us. I raised the point that science does not solve everything. And those scientists are humans with the same motivations and agendas as any other human. Science does not solve everything.
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