Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

Plus, animals are messy, require feeding and constant care, draw protests, and, yes, can be a bit smelly. Many animal supporters get caught up in fighting the food industry, but animal testing is as ugly and fundamental an issue. Tags: animal experimentation medical research. This is an important issue.

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2009

Tags: animal rights. The Longest Struggle concludes with an overview of current campaigns and tactics, and an assessment of the state of the movement as we enter a new century, including the threat represented by an overzealous "war on terror".

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

But Foot doesn't buy it and asks--again-- Yet over the long history of animal rights activism in Canada, it's hard to find evidence that the larger aims of such protests are ever achieved. Notwithstanding their local tactical victories, are animal rights protesters really as effective as they appear?

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2010

But, as is typical with many large industries, there is a resistance to change unless there is a clear and immediate profit windfall. Tags: australia sheep mulesing. Such an awful practice. Why change for welfare purposes if there is no clear economic benefit? From the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

But yet every single day in Ireland there are greyhounds all over the country been dumped into rivers with rocks tied to their little feet and their ears cut off so that they are non identifiable, this is the Irish greyhound racing industry at it's best when they no longer want the ones who are 'useless' or 'unwanted'.

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