May 17, 2013 7:01 AM
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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March 5, 2013 10:23 PM
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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September 27, 2012 10:52 PM
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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September 22, 2012 11:02 AM
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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May 16, 2012 6:15 AM
“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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May 3, 2012 7:30 AM
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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