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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals

Critter News

Around 10,000 are bred and exported from Mauritius to the US, UK and Japan. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. They are considered an environmental pest because they are a non-native species that inflict ecological damage.but to deal with them this way is just unacceptable.

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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

4 The Love Of Animals

Soon people from South Africa to Japan heard about what was happening, and wrote to share their stories, their challenges, and their curiosity about what Henry was learning. Our nation struggles with a medical system focused on disease, not on health, and on procedures, not on caring.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. There is as yet no medical research showing the cost of several extra years of hormones flooding the system. To the Editor: What parent or teacher has not noticed that girls are maturing far earlier than they used to?