Critter News

JUNE 20, 2009

.: A 2006 USDA inspection report faulted the school for withholding anesthesia from piglets and lambs during procedures without adequate scientific justification for doing so. Tags: university research animal research welfare violations medical research animal laboratories. The report does not identify the procedures.

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Research Hamsters Research Welfare Medical Research 100

Critter News

APRIL 7, 2010

Why change for welfare purposes if there is no clear economic benefit? Mulesing, in which woolgrowers surgically remove parts of merino lambs' rears to prevent potentially fatal flystrike, has sparked demonstrations and litigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Such an awful practice.

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Mulesing Australia AWI Ethical Treatment 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2010

I refuse to eat pork, but eat grass-fed beef when I am making Persian food, and certain forms of chicken and lamb with other ethnic foods I consume. So, how you would respond a person like me who cares for animal welfare, consciously stays away from the worse meat he can, and eats it mostly for cultural reasons.

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Vegetarian Lamb Animal Welfare Meat 40