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Mysterious Sled Dog Deaths

Critter News

An animal rights group claims the dogs were killed inhumanely by an outdoor adventure company and thrown into a mass grave. Canadian police are investigating the reported killing of 100 huskies which had been used to pull tourist sleds in the ski resort of Whistler.

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Ohio to Phase Out Veal Crates

Critter News

The board was supposed to end this inhumane practice in Ohio for good; however, during a March 1 meeting, they voted to remove the provision requiring that calves have enough room to move, proposing to allow their confinement in tiny crates for the first 10 weeks of their lives and violating the agreement.

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USHS Alleges Animal Abuse at the University of Louisiana New Iberia Research Laboratory

Critter News

This is a story of inhumane treatment and a story of psychological torment for these animals,” Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Washington-based animal rights group, said at a news conference Wednesday. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees.

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Study Claims Islamic Slaughtering More Humane

Critter News

The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals.

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On the Land Grant University Meat Problem

Animal Person

Given the abundant literature on conflict of interest in the academy, and given that knowledge is routinely used to promote special interests and popular interests over the public interest, maybe we should monitor our educational institutions at least as much as governmental ones.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9): The Fish and Wildlife Service is right to propose a ban on the sale of nine large constricting snakes for the pet trade. Snakes may die during the capture and transport process, or they may be housed inhumanely in a small aquarium they can barely fit into. The trade is dangerous for people, but also for the snakes.

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Tom Regan on Cruelty

Animal Ethics

Indeed, precisely because one expects indifference from animals but pity or mercy from human beings, people who are cruel by being insensitive to the suffering they cause often are called "animals" or "brutes," and their character or behavior, "brutal" or "inhuman." Cruelty is manifested in different ways.

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