Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. Tags: europe animal research drug companies medical research. Are politicians more willing to act?

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Critter News

JUNE 18, 2009

million for an underground vivarium that will house University of Iowa animal research laboratories. The 35,000-square-foot facility would connect the Medical Education Research Facility and Carver Biomedical Research Building on the west side of campus. Poor, poor long-suffering animal researchers. Advertisement.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments. Sincerely, Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates new mexico. These highly intelligent animals should be PERMANENTLY retired and a PERMANENT sanctuary created for them.

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Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

Around 12 million animals are used each year in the European Union (EU) for research purposes. This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animal research. From the Epoch Times.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Concerns surround the ethics of the process, the welfare of the animals and a lack of research on food safety. Clones themselves can suffer a range of painful conditions, including malformed organs and gigantism. Tags: europe cloning farm animal welfare. From the Daily Mail. Many die in the womb or soon after birth.

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Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

I had forgotten all about Michael Jackson and his chimp Bubbles whom he rescued from a research facility. They are wild creatures and their psychology must suffer from these abnormal arrangements. Tags: chimpanzees entertainment. Apparently, Bubbles is now 26 years old and living at an animal sanctuary. This is not surprising.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

The research project, led by Jack Bergman of McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Belmont, Mass., was one of 12 awarded radiobiology research grants through NASA's Human Research Program, the space agency announced October 27. Tags: animal experimentation NASA. This is so frigging frivolous.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Please help animals who suffer for military training by asking President Obama to extend his ban on torture to include animals used in military trauma-training exercises. Tags: animal research animal cruelty military Obama PETA. These methods are readily available and already in use at several military installations.

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Critter News

MARCH 23, 2009

It was an "experiment" you see, even though they are just Animal Control, not a research facility. The temperature did not exceed 86 degrees, the dog was closely monitored and suffered no ill affects, they said. Tags: animal cruelty Stupid USDA animal welfare us. How should Animal Control evaluate their claim?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

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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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

My objection is: Why do such research when you don't need to? If a person cares about what "livestock" experience on their way to becoming "meat," there is one easy, inexpensive action that person can take to make certain s/he is not a party to the various kinds and levels of suffering and injustice the animals experience.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Another went out last Friday.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This says it all: "[T]he vision of sustainable farms that give animals a good life (a life as good as we give our dogs or cats) and an easy death (as easy as a death we give our suffering and terminally ill companion animals) has moved me" (242). You never have to wonder if the fish on your plate had to suffer. Not a single one.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Today it is a different situation, i learned from then about respecting animals and my life has been devoted to ending their suffering and torment. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters. Thinking back still touch's me to the point where I feel so guilty-but I knew no different.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Scientific research and expertise are needed here. If they have a right to life because they have a self-concept, they surely also have a right to die and the right to suffer pain in the process if they desire. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Neither is it obvious, however, that eating microorganisms does not kill them. KBJ: Ditto.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 24, 2010

Research suggests that you are more likely to make a claim on your pet insurance than on either car or home insurance. With studies suggesting that more than 140,000 dogs under three years of age suffer dermatitis alone each year, it is not difficult to see why. Tags: guest post pet care. Can I afford pet insurance?

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

On a very quiet night during a lull in the drama of the ducks, I was researching the Greyhound racing industry, and seething over its treatment of dogs as well as the support it often gets, through subsidies, to help it survive. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language.

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