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PETA Buying Corporate Stock

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I think this is a great strategy. After PETA bought stock, Safeway grocery stores and restaurant companies Ruby Tuesday, Sonic and Burger King agreed to give purchasing preference to suppliers that abide by what the group says are more humane rules, such as not confining chicken and hogs in small cages, she said. Tags: PETA.

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Expedition Grizzly

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Driven by compassion, Casey and Brutus take a yearlong odyssey to shed light on Yellowstone’s “island” population of about 600 grizzlies, hemmed in on all sides by roads and human settlement. Tags: tv. Casey is concerned about the health of this grizzly population and whether climate change could be threatening their food supply.

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EPA Wants to Rely Less on Animal Testing

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Environmental Protection Agency is reducing its reliance on animal testing to assess human risk of chemical toxicity and will instead focus more heavily on the tools made possible by advances in molecular biology, genomics and computational modeling. Tags: animal experimentation animal research EPA us.

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Just Two Lessons Learned for Today

Animal Person

We humans can't even agree on what happened in the past. To talk about the future as if we know what theory or strategy will lead to our goal doesn't make sense. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I bring this up because these are lessons I've learned about the way I did things and what I would change.

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On the Vetsulin "Recall"

Animal Person

Every animal is different, so what I do with Violet won't be the ideal strategy for everyone. Tags: Current Affairs Greyhound Matters. Last night, my vet called to update me. He he had just gotten off the phone with Intervet/Schering-Plough and so far, a recall of Vetsulin isn't planned, but it also hasn't been ruled out.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

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It’s not always an easy book, at times dense and challenging, it is also fascinating and stimulating, motivating us to look at the totality of a bird’s life and the interconnectedness amongst bird movements, shorelines, landscapes, weather, and us–humans. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds.

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