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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Sounds awful. From the MetroWest Daily News.

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MAY 17, 2010

Why would you partner with an organization with such a bad reputation? Tags: animal research Stupid KFC farm animal welfare susan g. Chickens that are used for KFC products are horribly treated. But, really, even if I ate meat, I wouldn't touch KFC. That stuff is horrible! It's fast food and it is unhealthy.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

It is funding stealth organizations that support "patients' choices" and that assist in organized mob disruptions of town hall meetings. Big pharma is also involved in promoting animal research for its own benefit. Here's an opinion piece in the Guardian that is another good refutation of pro-animal research arguments.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Because an animal bite occurred, Menlo Park police alerted the Peninsula Humane Society, which is under county contract to follow up on such incidents. Tags: animal research humane society primates. "The worker is fine and returned to work on Monday."

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JANUARY 25, 2010

The guidelines have been compiled by the Forum of Ethics Review Committees of Sri Lanka and the Ethics Review Committee (ERC) of the Colombo Medical Faculty after several sessions of consultations with a wide and varied group including academics from all universities across the country, government officials and animal welfare groups.

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DECEMBER 7, 2008

The ring broken up here had links to dogfighting organizations in other states and in Mexico, suggesting an extensive underground network of people devoted to the activity, investigators said. Tags: animal cruelty Texas dog fighting us. From the New York Times. Manning, describing the tense atmosphere at the fights.

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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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APRIL 13, 2009

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition. Farm animals used for food and fiber or for food and fiber research are not regulated under the AWA.”.Unlike

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JANUARY 11, 2009

(Remember animal research doesn't just create reports, it creates CAREERS as well.) Tags: animal research. I'll let them describe their positions in their own words.

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JUNE 16, 2010

The cognitive abilities of chimpanzees force us, I think, to raise searching questions about the boundaries of the community of beings to which special ethical considerations are due, and can, I hope, help to extend our ethical perspectives downward through the taxa on Earth and upwards to extraterrestrial organisms, if they exist.

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