Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

If the directive is approved, the number of animals used for experiments will be limited, and the animals’ welfare will be improved in accordance with ethical principles of the EU concerning animals.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy. Many animal supporters get caught up in fighting the food industry, but animal testing is as ugly and fundamental an issue. This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week. This is an important issue. We as a movement cannot compartamentalize.

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.

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Animal Person

APRIL 8, 2009

And if he looked fine he wouldn't have been tested. And if he didn't look fine and was tested he probably would have been euthanized. So his suffering was basically prolonged because he looked good on that one day, and because testing is done only if there are symptoms. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

Testing drugs on animal is unpleasant. There is only one alternative to testing drugs on animals: testing them on humans. Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical ethics medical research. Anyway, here's one particularly annoying paragraph from the post. No one likes doing it. It's all effed up to me.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Like this: Apparently it is ethically questionable to create a genetically modified chicken and then hatch it, so approval for that research wasn’t even sought at this stage. In order to test the mechanism, we used inhibitors of both pathways to replicate in chicken the ancestral amniote expression.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a North Carolina animal testing facility that closed its doors after an undercover investigation revealed apparent abuse of the animals by workers at the facility. Their investigations produce results. From the PR Newswire.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Earlier this year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it will offer a $1 million X Prize for the creation of affordable, humane, and "commercially viable" test-tube meat by 2012. This article on Gristmill (excerpt below) goes into detail on pros and cons of "schmeat."

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2010

The vets I work with agree that testing an animal's glucose level via urine strips is not effective, as you have no idea how long the drops of urine you are testing have been in the bladder. My experience, because I test frequently, was relatively uneventful. And my transition, because I tested frequently, was also uneventful.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

2) If you live in Los Angeles, you are probably more aware of the goings-on around the panel discussion that will involve Dr. Ray Greek and members of the Pro-Test community at UCLA. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. What do you think about Deep Vegan Outreach? I recommend reading the entire letter.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics mice medical research. I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. They used different lighting situations to see how they affect mice moods. One of the conclusions?

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Animal Person

MARCH 20, 2009

They will spay/neuter, vaccinate, tip ears and microchip , and they do not test. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. A branch of Palm Beach County's Animal Care & Control that has been closed for a long, long time and has reopened. The cost is $25 and they will do up to 10 at a time! Or at least the hawks here.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). Here are some highlights: Mantle: "How do you respond to: Yeah, you may find something that benefits humans, but it's not worth it and it's not ethically right?"

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, in collaboration with a number of government agencies, has established AltWeb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web site.

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Animal Person

JULY 22, 2009

But I hope you will agree that by not eating or wearing animals or products that use or were tested on sentient nonhumans that you know of, and by not participating in or promoting events that use animals as entertainment, you are doing a world of good for the planet and the creatures who live here.

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Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

This means that between mealtimes I will not consume animal products, use products tested on animals, attend a rodeo or polo match, go to Seaworld, wear leather, silk or wool, or drop any toxic substances into the eyes of rabbits who are clamped down (or even not clamped down, which is far more humane and acceptable).

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Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

Removing the flesh and secretions of sentient nonhumans from your diet, and removing their skin and hair from your clothing, and buying household products that don't have animal ingredients and weren't tested on animals, and refusing to participate in entertainment that involves animals, are the major issues. Let me know.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

So, while this fact does not need to concern us, if we are thinking about ethical principles, for example based on rational arguments leading to deontological ethics, that changes when we are talking about how to move society towards this ethical ideal.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

I wrote about atheism, diabetes (which I do think is important and stay tuned for a video about canine diabetes and how to test blood sugar), dog food, feral cats, and of course, greyhound racing. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language abolition animal rights blogging veganism vegetarianism writing. I was all over the place.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

For that reason, a bluff is generally considered ethical, whereas a flat-out lie is not. Test the water and make sure you can walk back from the bluff if you’re called out on it. For example, if you’re trying to negotiate a price, then both parties have the opportunity to bluff. Start by integrating the technique in small ways.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 6, 2018

Author: Lain Hensley Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a management concept which strives to ensure that companies conduct their business in an ethical and responsible manner. Once your team is together, relaxed and focused, they need to be given something to think about, something to do and then something to feel.

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SalesFuel

JANUARY 5, 2025

Kon Apostolopolous advises that leaders should focus on building trust and emphasizing the unique human traits that machines cannot replicate, such as ethics, intuition, and creativity. Crisis in Greek, 'krisi,' means a test by the gods, a challenge to overcome for growth. How should leaders address the fear of AI among employees?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Each of us can help bring an end to these terrible things by not eating animals, not wearing animals, not purchasing products tested on animals, and not consuming animal products. As Regan expressed so simply and straightforwardly, what animal rights advocates want is for "people to stop doing terrible things to animals."

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The general premises about natural reactions do not yield ethical conclusions. But the argument so construed is weak. Even granted the premises, the moral conclusion does not follow from the factual premises. Furthermore, the argument cuts too deep.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

22): Mr. Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan. Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

(e) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that were tested on animals when equally effective cruelty-free products are available. (f) Cruelty-free shopping guides that list companies that don't test their products on animals are available here and here. (h) j) Donate only to Humane Charities that don't test on animals.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

(e) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that were tested on animals when equally effective cruelty-free products are available. (f) Cruelty-free shopping guides that list companies that don't test their products on animals are available here , here and here. (h) A list of Humane Charities is available here.

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SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Ethical hackers use OSINT to identify weaknesses in systems. However, handling data responsibly and adhering to ethical guidelines is essential, ensuring that only freely available information is used. The result? Forward-thinking decisions backed by cold, hard facts.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2008

The test of logic no less than the test of feeling is deliberately challenged by us; for it is only by those who can think as well as feel, and feel as well as think, that the diet-question, or indeed any great social question, can ever be brought to its solution. Henry S.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 9, 2008

Hare has impressed upon me, simply this: philosophy is concerned with testing arguments for soundness, and the occupation of the philosopher is to carry out this testing. Note 2 from KBJ: Frey says that "philosophy is concerned with testing arguments for soundness." It is, as R. That may not seem like a lot, but it is.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

4, 2009 To the Editor: I have been a strict vegetarian most of my life, and, as such, I have never lacked reasons—ethical, economic and health-related—to continue this lifestyle. He stated that the department could demand mandatory testing, but that it had to consider what effect that would have on companies as well as consumers.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2007

coli O157:H7 in ground beef samples tested by the Agriculture Department has declined by 80 percent to a fraction of a percent, a level once thought impossible. Today’s meat plants operate in carefully controlled, high-tech environments that approach operating-room levels of sanitation. Since 1999, the incidence of E.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Philosophers have shown that the standard reasons offered to exclude animals from the moral circle, and to justify not assessing our treatment of them by the same moral categories and machinery we use for assessing the treatment of humans, do not meet the test of moral relevance.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2008

Orlando; Dallas; and Phoenix have tested positive for an array of pharmaceuticals — analgesics, antibiotics, antidepressants, antihistamines, anti-hypertension drugs and anti-seizure medications. According to the column, more than 100 different pharmaceutical compounds have turned up in surface water around the world.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 11, 2008

I suspect that the moral judgments most of us make about animals do pass these phenomenological tests, so that most of us do believe that animals have rights, but are reluctant to say so because of the conceptual confusions about the notion of a right that I have attempted to dispel above.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

To the Editor: Your editorial states: “The government seems to think it is enough that the harm caused by the animal-cruelty depictions outweighs their social value, but the First Amendment does not say that Congress can restrict speech if it fails a balancing test.” Lawrence A. Mandelker New York, Oct. 6, 2009 The writer is a lawyer.

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