Critter News
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!" From Oregonlive.
Animal Person
APRIL 14, 2009
According to Reuters: Japan, which considers whaling to be a cherished cultural tradition, killed 679 minke whales despite plans to catch around 850. Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). That's one result.
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Animal Ethics
JUNE 7, 2016
In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? Further, did those who reacted so strongly to Harambe’s killing go home and serve meat to their children? Finally, what of the audience? Many sanctuaries do not permit breeding.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
But let's stick to the animal rights issue. What is sad is that Travis' mother was also shot and killed for aggressive behavior. The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. What were they thinking?) This is serious stuff.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2013
Besides the birds, the teams were distracted by half a dozen primate species and rare Giant River Otters. “I am covered in bug bites, my legs are killing me and I got sick and threw up from the altitude,” Ryan Terrill, 26, a member of the winning American team, the LSU Tigrisomas, commented. The Olympics. Naturally.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2012
She’d then climb down my leg, waddle across the room, climb up Bill’s jeans, and bite him, once right in the middle of his back. Wild birds I’ve raised from tiny, featherless orphans demonstrate attachment to me, as would be expected for any young creature with a surrogate mother, even a weird, long-limbed primate mother.
Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director.
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