Critter News

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Researchers told the Tribune that the testing gave the shelter animals "a second chance at life," while records obtained by the Tribune revealed that the labs had killed 116 of the 190 strays last year. Only 74 animals survived the research process to be adopted out as pets.

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JUNE 3, 2009

It's not the animals' fault that they have found themselves in this situation. It's the constant and conscious culture of killing animals in this society that I absolutely hate. Tags: animal shelter management euthanization california strays. Thanks to LA Unleashed for the story.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!"

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APRIL 13, 2009

Most animals in the U.S. are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. The faster they go, the greater the problems with animals being handled roughly and being improperly killed.

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MARCH 19, 2010

It is illegal in Wisconsin to kill an animal by means of decompression. The university stopped conducting the experiments last fall when it learned that it may have been violating state law, said Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research at UW-Madison.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Nathan Winograd is an advocate for no-kill shelters (and is the author of several books on the subject). Tags: animal shelters. The article documents a number of recent abuses nationwide, as well as the difficulties reformers have faced in trying to stop abuse at shelters. You can read about his background here.

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MARCH 10, 2009

In my opinion, if we can send a man to the moon and create weapons to kill everything on the planet, if we can shove massive computing power into tiny chips and reattach human organs, we can certainly develop the means of replacing animal testing 100 percent of the time. It’s just a question of WILL.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Tags: animal law.

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JUNE 16, 2010

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? Tags: animal experimentation animal research. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"?

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AUGUST 20, 2009

He uses geese killing at a fictional university as a comedic subplot. I've googled this and can't find a single critique of the book that mentions that he is making a joke out of animal cruelty. Tags: animal cruelty books. Has anyone ever read Richard Russo's book "Straight Man?" It's not funny at all.

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MAY 28, 2009

Some of us forget that dogs are mere animals, and that animal mistreatment is as American as Apple iPods. Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. Hunters shoot down animals in cold blood for mere sport. Many (though not all) animal lovers kind of suck too, including myself.

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