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Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years

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This place is celebrating its 10th year with ground-breaking research into what makes us all fat. And let's not forget the required sanctimonious quote from an animal researcher “Our primates are essential partners in medical progress, as are mice, rats, guinea pigs and opossums. Tags: primates medical research.

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The Horrors of Shark Finning

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Shark finning is the practice of removing fins from live sharks with sharp tools, and then tossing the shark back into the ocean. Shark fins are also dried and used in alternative medicine and ancient medical practices. However, watching these shows on DIRECT.TV In fact, dried shark fin can go for as much as $300 a pound or more.

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Originally organized by structure and ecology, they have been reclassified according to relationships discovered by DNA research. A Quick Guide To The Book is found on the inside front cover, a handy tool for going directly to the type of mushroom you’re researching (see top illustration). Hey, it’s not just us!).

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

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Any animal group in the world can use these materials as fundraising tools. The National Institutes of Health acknowledges and researches the healing powers that animals exert on humans. 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

The data speak to a clear reality: If we are to meet the challenges of feeding and clothing a growing population in the 21st century without totally despoiling the planet, we will need all the tools we can find. There is as yet no medical research showing the cost of several extra years of hormones flooding the system.