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Long time ago, I mentioned here something about the Belgrade Zoo. The power of Google brought a Belgrader, Sonja, to my blog, who alerted me to the dire conditions in which the Zoo is right now and the existence of...
As a follow-up on the whole PETA brouhaha, my astute commenter oneproudaardvark notices that the SOTU-farce ad campaign by PETA is strangely coinciding with the beginning of the trial against PETA for butchering dogs in the back of the truck...
Posted on January 29, 2007 11:31 AM • 0 Comments •
.. when someone rips PETA a new one... Added later: Jill and Chris have more (and watch all those disccussions in the comment threads on all three posts!). Added even later: Archy has a great analysis of this....
Just How Useful Are Animal Studies To Human Health?: Animal studies are of limited usefulness to human health because they are of poor quality and their results often conflict with human trials, argue researchers in a study online in the...
Posted on December 18, 2006 8:32 AM • 1 Comments •
Composting May Be Alternative In Wake Of Horse Slaughter Bill: The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, making its way from the U.S. House to the Senate, could leave thousands of horses with no final resting ground. Composting may be an...
Posted on October 14, 2006 11:00 AM • 6 Comments •
As Nick says: Interestingly, as opponents of science (.....) continue to take on increasingly scientific-sounding arguments (....) this study demonstrates that these are only quasi-scientific, manufactured to support a particular viewpoint and not intended to actually communicate new information. I...
Posted on October 10, 2006 11:10 PM • 4 Comments •
There has been a lot of commentary online about the Inside Higher Ed article about an UCLA primate researcher who quit his research due to being terrorised by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and the follow up article about the...
In light of the recent cases of researchers quitting animal research under the duress of threats and attacks by Animal Rights groups, e.g., Dr. Ringach at UCLA, this may be a good time to repost this old rant from...
Not just in the USA. Visceral queeziness coupled with religious sentiment coupled with scientific ignorance appears in other parts of the world as well, as in the UK The Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, a professional group based in Edinburgh,...
Posted on August 11, 2006 10:21 PM • 10 Comments •
Yesterday, I heard the announcement on NPR for Diane Rehm's Monday show and recoiled in horror as it appeared she used the terms "animal welfare" and "animal rights" interchangeably....
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