10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Life Along the Delaware Bay: Cape May, Gateway to a Million Shorebirds , by Lawrence Niles, Joanna Burger, and Amanda Dey, is a book with a mission. The numbers, as detailed in this book, are alarming: the horseshoe crab harvest grew from less than 100,000 in 1992 to over 2.5 million in the late 1990’s.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

So, I belong to this book group of 5 to 7 women. I do enjoy reading books and discussing them, but I have a quandary that I'm going to post about. She is the "science" one and likes to call herself an "independent" on the political landscape. She supports medical research on animals. She is a practicing Catholic.

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Critter News

MARCH 21, 2012

But I want to be able to argue about it intelligently, citing science, not just morals. I've finally decided to take the plunge and really learn about animal experimentation. It's a horrible topic and I post news articles about the abuses from time to time. Many times tests fail. A drug may work on an animal, but fail miserably on a human.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

A well-referenced book is probably your best source of reliable information. There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research.

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

This statement is mainly motivated by a recent conversation with someone who has a science degree (I think it's biology), but who actually works for a clinical testing company. It's a book about societal collapses resulting from poor decisions about the environment, resource-use, etc. Science does not solve everything.

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