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Anti-Vivisection Activists Address Scottish Parliament

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Scotland for Animals have arranged for two of the worlds leading experts on non-animal research to speak at the Scottish Parliament {on October 5}. Tags: UK scotland animal research vivisection. This event was scheduled for today, October 5. From indymediascotland.org.

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Vivisection is Up There with Waterboarding

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Tags: animal experimentation animal research vivisection medical research. I say "yes" and it's time to pursue the alternatives. This is an excellent, excellent opinion piece. The author is the press officer for the Animal Liberation Press Office.

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Help Release Chimps from Medical Research

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Project R&R is a campaign of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society. Tags: chimpanzees animal research animal cruelty vivisection anti-cruelty medical research. Visit this site.

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Thousands Offered for Primate Freedom

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An animal rights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.

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A Reluctant Vivisector

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For all of you who think there are no moral quandaries to vivisection and animal research, read this. At least someone who has conducted animal research has a conscience and is willing to write about it. They just want to take away our rights to research!" In fact, read the whole 5-part series in Slate.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

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research) rally in defense of his community (he considers himself a proxy for the entire UCLA community). A combination of tactics will force these people to stop torturing animals, he says, and even mentions an example of a researcher who took up non-animal alternatives as a result. Guess what the answer is? No surprise there.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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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.