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APRIL 7, 2009

Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. The two-week experiment involving 29 pigs began Tuesday in the Western Austrian Alps. From USA Today.

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MARCH 26, 2010

Tags: europe pigs castration farm animal welfare belgium agribusiness. They castrate piglets WITHOUT anesthesia. I hope this bill passes. But I post about so many legislative proposals, with so few actual passages. We'll have to wait and see.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Tags: animal testing animal cruelty military pigs medical research PETA. But it's worth noting that someone out there took some action on this gruesome story. And that's what I like about PETA and why I recently became a member for the first time. They are fast, organized, committed and they get attention.

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DECEMBER 22, 2008

It really sucks to be a factory farm pig in Europe. In one of the biggest undercover inquiries into pig-farming, CIWF visited 60 farms across five big pork-producing states, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Britain. Most farms made widespread but legal use of metal cages for confining pregnant pigs.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

This year, the European Commission will issue a research contract, worth up to €1 million for a study into alternatives to the castration of pigs and dehorning of cattle. Tags: europe pigs farm animal welfare.

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APRIL 30, 2009

The Egyptian government has begun slaughtering all of the pigs in the country. From the NY Times: Egypt has begun forcibly slaughtering the country’s pig herds as a precaution against swine flu, a move that the United Nations described as “a real mistake” and one that is prompting anger among the country’s pig farmers.

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APRIL 11, 2009

It's a 5-minute film about conditions for pigs in the UK. Tags: UK meat pigs. Produced by Compassion in World Farming. As an aside, people who love to eat meat should also watch educational videos like these. They need to take responsibility and learn about the food they eat. Don't live in a cloud.wake up!

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? Or pig, or duck, or fish. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters. " Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow.

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OCTOBER 9, 2008

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty pigs farm animal welfare.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The heroes are a pair of guinea pigs. Here is a CBS article that at least explains basic care for guinea pigs. Having cared for guinea pigs at the Seattle Animal Shelter, I can tell you that guinea pigs are certainly cute. Tags: Guinea Pigs. The latest movie to prompt this kind of behavior is G-Force.

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APRIL 24, 2009

The pig industry, says Dr MacDougald, is marked by generally poor production and financial analysis. These pigs are simply raw materials. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness. This means poor assessment of ROI {Return on Investment} for interventions and little focus on opportunity cost.

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JANUARY 24, 2010

In this week's podcast ending January 26, 2010: **Animal rescue efforts are underway in disaster-stricken Haiti; **A research study involving the burial of live pigs is halted; **The blood sport of dogfighting enjoys a revival in Afghanistan; **And a report by animal welfare organizations criticize pig farming in the European Union.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2009

It's an article about the pork industry having to address the increasingly positive media image of pigs as intelligent creatures that could be someone's pet. Tags: meat pigs pork farm animal welfare. Now, it may see like it would add to more depression, but it actually makes me feel a little better. it's just a turkey."

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MARCH 19, 2009

"It's not as much about what the animal rights activists are saying about how we are raising pigs as opposed to us demonstrating that we do care and we are giving the best possible care" she said. The pork industry does not make money from happy pigs, but from dead carcasses. I have a hard time with the logic of that statement.

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MAY 3, 2009

A Canadian man has apparently infected some pigs after catching the flu on a trip to Mexico. From the article: About 10 percent of the Alberta farm’s 2,200 pigs showed symptoms of the same H1N1 strain that has spread across the globe. Tags: Swine Flu.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Potbelly and pygmy pigs are susceptible. Pet pigs may contract swine flu. The ASPCA recommends taking “steps to limit possible transmission from humans to pigs and vice versa.&# Influenza Type A vaccines are available for pigs. Tags: pet care. Ferrets and birds are susceptible. H1N1 and your pets.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

In one case, a pen housing a large pig was constructed with slats that regularly caused the pig to fall when its feet fell through. Tags: animal research animal laboratories wisconsin. The report also noted a lack of cleanliness in some facilities. Dried blood, dust and floor stains were cited as deficiencies.

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JULY 18, 2010

All companion animals including dogs, cats, hamsters, mice, rats, chinchillas, guinea pigs, birds, snakes, and lizards would be considered as pets. Tags: california san francisco legislation pets. Pet sales would be banned altogether, except for the sale of pet fish. Sounds good, but I just don't believe this will pass.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia. Tags: universities animal experimentation UK animal research wales cardiff university.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows. Because his previous paragraph is: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? His aside demonstrates how self-conscious he is about attributes shared by pigs and dogs, which he knows is also shared by humans.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. Tags: animal experimentation mice Guinea Pigs medical research biotech. In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), Weird, weird, weird. Just thinking about it makes me crave a shower.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

It can spread to other pets however, such as turkeys and pigs. Tags: Care2 Articles. You should also be careful if you have a pet bird as they have sensitive respiratory systems that are susceptible to other human illnesses (such as colds). Continue reading at Care2.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). There's a donate button on the homepage of AnimalEquality right at the bottom of the "Pig Farms" panel. Thanks a lot.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are reared for food. Tags: europe cloning farm animal welfare. Clones themselves can suffer a range of painful conditions, including malformed organs and gigantism.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

And what's with the dead pig? Tags: david chang restaurants. Since when are vegetarians so threatening? Why the discrimination? David Chang seems over the top to me. And a few other choice words that I probably shouldn't write. But, he's a STAH! And the bigger a jerk he is, probably the more media he'll get.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

These harvested cells are taken from an animal, such as a pig, and placed in a "nutrient-rich medium" that mimics blood. Tags: meat alternatives PETA vegetarian. Shmeat is grown from a cell culture (hence the in vitro or cultured prefixes), not from a live animal.

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JUNE 15, 2009

For more than a year this university has been warned about their meaningless experiments on various animals and especially pigs (obesity research). Tags: ALF. But the Wageningen university decided to do NOTHING and even sent the police after us! We are trying to help you! But we didn't and took off.".

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

Huntingdon used mostly mice and rats , but also some dogs, monkeys, fish and guinea pigs , in its research in New Jersey. Tags: huntingdon animal enterprise protection act. The activists posted the home addresses of Huntingdon officials and contractors on the group's Web site, and harassment, vandalism and violence sometimes followed.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Failed to provide minimal enrichment for animals -- companionship for monkeys, balls for pigs, paper towels for mice -- to reduce emotional stress. Tags: universities animal research utah undercover investigation PETA. Certainly a case to follow.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Over the past week, tigers have frequently lifted livestock from the villages outside Kaziranga, with a tiger killing a domestic pig in the park's Sildubi area on Saturday itself. Tags: India tigers. This has given credence to the perception that the animal had died in a revenge attack.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. Tags: meat meat alternatives vegetarian meatless. From an opinion piece in the Times of India. They haven't been able to actually taste the pork they've grown because of lab rules.

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JUNE 15, 2010

When their shelters are full, they depend on compassionate people who want to make a direct difference for a suffering cow, pig, chicken or other farm animal. Tags: adoptable people helping animals rescues. Every year, they assist with urgent placement needs, particularly in cruelty cases involving large numbers of animals.

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MARCH 15, 2009

In December, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a warning letter to the primate center for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which regulates treatment of many commercial animals from pet kittens to laboratory guinea pigs. Tags: medical research PETA animal welfare us.

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MAY 17, 2009

If they were pigs, would anyone care? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Like eating foie gras? Is it the dogs that are at issue? Do you have a personal spectrum of use and abuse or some kind of line in the sand that makes a certain use really deplorable?

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APRIL 23, 2010

Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA.

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