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The Joke’s on Us: New Research Suggests Animal Testing a Danger to Humans

May 17, 2013 7:01 AM4 comments
The Joke’s on Us: New Research Suggests Animal Testing a Danger to Humans

Apparently we’ve been burning thousands of mice for nothing. A new study, being called the most comprehensive of its kind, concluded that mice make exceptionally poor models of human inflammation. The results of this study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, calls our  current process of [...]

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Beauty Brand Shiseido Ends Animal Testing

March 5, 2013 10:23 PM1 comment
Beauty Brand Shiseido Ends Animal Testing

Japanese makeup company Shiseido has banned animal testing for its products and vows to only test on animals on the off chance that an ingredient is deemed unsafe, according to Women’s Wear Daily (WWD). This comes in light of last month’s decision by the European Coalition to end animal experimentation by [...]

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Vote to spare animals from research and help women fight breast cancer

September 27, 2012 10:52 PM29 comments
Vote to spare animals from research and help women fight breast cancer

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer affecting women in the United States, aside from non-melanoma skin cancer. Only very few species aside from humans develop the disease. So why do so many animals end up suffering because of a disease they don’t naturally develop? Because of its [...]

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Cargo carriers refuse to transport research animals

September 22, 2012 11:02 AM11 comments
Cargo carriers refuse to transport research animals

In another stunning example of consumer power, the world’s top two largest cargo airlines, Fed Ex and DHL, join UPS in initiating a ban on shipments of live animals to laboratories. After growing pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as part of its anti-vivisection campaign, both [...]

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Chimps deserve bill to to ban their use as research subjects

May 16, 2012 6:15 AM0 comments
Photo by Afrika Force

“There is no profit in curing the body if in the process we destroy the soul.” Samuel Golter Remember when those chimpanzees flew those planes into the Twin Towers in New York? Or how about that chimp in Belgium that barged into that daycare with a 12-inch knife and murdered [...]

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Meat tax better for people, animals than tobacco tax

May 3, 2012 7:30 AM1 comment
Meat tax better for people, animals than tobacco tax

Imagine the looks Hitler would get if he paraded down Jerusalem’s main street waving. They couldn’t be much worse than the expressions of pure horror reflected on the faces of the Proposition 29 – Tobacco Tax for Cancer Research – proponents and every other person within hearing distance when I [...]

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