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Air Canada To Stop Shipping Lab Primates

Critter News

Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. The announcement below comes verbatim from the Pacific Free Press.they still need approval from the Canadian Transportation Agency though.

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Captive Primate Safety Act Passes House

Critter News

Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for sponsoring the measure that will prohibit the trade in non human primates. Mark Markarian, as usual, has an excellent roundup. Special shout out to Rep.

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ALF Activists Glue Locks of U Cal Primate Researcher

Critter News

We will increase our level of tactics as long as non-human primates and other animals are tortured to death at the hands of those driven by profit and as long as the University of California shows a complete disregard for the suffering of the non-human prisoners.

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Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting

Critter News

The school has not listed any non-human primates in this category from 2005 to 2009, according to the complaint. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act. Harvard Medical School has not listed those primates as receiving unrelieved pain or distress, Budkie said.

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Situation Critical for Zimbabwe Wildlife

Critter News

War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos.

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Activists in Mexico Bomb Max Mara Store

Critter News

raised in the infernal fur farms, which are nothing more than concentration camps, where non-human animals are subjugated and forced to live a life of torture and imprisonment waiting for their murder, sick and crazed due to the denial of their wild natures.

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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money

Critter News

Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 17-24) exposes their plight and the broken federal research funding system that perpetuates outdated animal experiments at the expense of modern and more humane technologies.

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ALF Activists Burn Company That Sells Animals for Research

Critter News

Address: 432 Ridge Street, Reno, Nevada 89501 UNITED STATES Phone: 775-786-3244 Fax: 775-786-2767 Email: primatesri@sbcglobal.net Scientific Resources International (SRI) specializes in naive purpose bred non human primates for research. Our large inventory can match your specific age, weight, sex and disease status requirements.

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Hero Dog Tries To Help Wounded Dog

Creature Talk

It is a great example of how loving and selfless non-human animals can be. The whole idea that so many people hold that says somehow humans have a monopoly on emotions kind of gets tossed out the window when you see something like this. This video just melts my heart. We could all learn a little something from this Hero Dog!

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Golden Rule

Animal Ethics

In our dealings with the non-human as with the human race, it is not "charity," or "self-sacrifice," or "mercy" that is required, but simple justice —an insistence on our own duties as on those of our neighbors, a recognition of our neighbors'' rights as of our own. Henry S.

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The Urban Birds of Austin, Texas

10,000 Birds

After all, part of getting to know any city is learning its non-human inhabitants! Still, I love seeing species that are “common” elsewhere and new for me, and I marvel at their fortitude in making this new kind of environment their own.

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When You Have to Make a Choice About Your Beliefs

Critter News

I understand the realities of medical research, and I have recently audited companies in which non-human primate studies are a "cost of goods sold," but the lack of interest in pursuing an alternative and the coldness of her reasoning makes me sick to my stomach. I am a hypocrite to my beliefs by associating with her.

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From Today's Los Angeles Times

Animal Ethics

As an intelligent primate, I’d much rather be an ambassador for my species in a secure environment—served the best food and tended to by top-notch veterinarians—than take my chances in a national park where poverty and corruption result in little or no protection for the non-human residents. Lisa Edmondson, Los Angeles

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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights

Animal Person

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. Something about jockeying for position in 140 characters or less, rather than interacting and sharing, I guess.

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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

Animal Person

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals.

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On Bestiality

Animal Person

Now, mind you there are people who are actually mentally ill in the sense they 'can't get it up' without thinking of their mate as a fantasized non-human animal, I should mention this also includes mythological animals. Law enforcement has better tasks than to fry someone for their sexual preference or activity.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on Moral Blindness

Animal Ethics

I do not share the extreme vegetarian view that food reform is the foundation of other reforms, for I think it can be shown that all cruelties to animals, whether inflicted in the interests of the dinner-table, the laboratory, the hunting-field, or any other institution, are the outcome of one and the same error—the blindness which can see no unity (..)

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Ridicule of Vegetarians

Animal Ethics

Anxious relatives and indignant friends adjure him to remember the duty he owes to himself and to his family, and urge him for the sake of those dear to him, if not for his own, to return to that great sacramental bond of union between man and man—the eating of our non-human fellow-beings.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

10,000 Birds

Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste. But I digress.

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Robert Young on Killing Animals

Animal Ethics

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? I believe it does help.

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Philip E. Devine on the Overflow Principle

Animal Ethics

I propose that the moral significance of the suffering, mutilation, and death of non-human animals rests on the following, which may be called the overflow principle: Act towards that which, while not itself a person, is closely associated with personhood in a way coherent with an attitude of respect for persons.

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John Rodman on Dolphinic Wisdom

Animal Ethics

Now men in desperation voyage into outer space, searching far-off planets for signs of intelligent, non-human life. But first philosophers, then religious men, turned their backs on us in disinterest or hostility, and we retreated into the depths of the sea to await a better time. We wait and wonder whether man is ready. Transcendence.

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

10,000 Birds

That is when he hit upon the idea of a non-human serving as the chorus: I did not fail to perceive, in short, that the difficulty lay in the reconciliation of this monotony with the exercise of reason on the part of the creature repeating the word.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them. Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture.

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Getting Emotional

Creature Talk

What immediately hit me after getting so emotional about this is how nature is kind in comparison to the horrible cruelties humans impose on non-human animals, especially “food&# animals. Yes, I cried at the cruelty of nature. I still have not figured out how to completely combat this.