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MARCH 26, 2009

Oh PETA, my PETA. PETA is demanding that Vick be barred from the league unless he has a brain scan to prove he’s not a psychopath. From the PETA Web site: Vick’s behavior seems to fit the American Psychiatric Association profile for anti-social personality disorder (APD). They can also take pleasure in inflicting cruelty.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2009

But it certainly raised my awareness that animals are used in military trauma-training exercises. Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and poisoned every year in Department of Defense (DoD) training exercises designed to train medics and infantry in how to treat various human battlefield injuries.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Tags: animal research. They're trying to get documentation regarding the 100 dogs and cats sold to the University of Utah for medical experiments.

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MAY 16, 2010

Anyway, I'm wondering if the decision could have been influenced by PETA's investigation of how reptiles are being skinned alive for these sales. This PETA post doesn't claim the credit though. Tags: animal cruelty exotic skins lizards. And I just bought something from them last month for the first time.

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APRIL 23, 2010

They received citations for animal welfare infractions, although apparently few of these infractions overlap with PETA claims from an undercover investigation. Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA. You decide. From the Deseret News.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Awful story, but this is the reason I support PETA, even when they do wacky things sometimes. Tags: animal abuse animal research cats North Carolina dogs PETA. Their investigations produce results. From the PR Newswire.

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MARCH 17, 2009

PETA is trying to prevent more animals going to the Manila Zoo. They are working with local animal welfare groups on this issue. Joining PETA as the petition’s signatories are the Animal Kingdom Foundation Inc. Tags: animal welfar zoo PETA phillipines. That's not true.

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APRIL 4, 2010

Davis County Animal Shelter, a key supplier to the University of Utah, has already ceased this practice. Tags: animal research utah university of utah legislation PETA. I wish the whole practice had been outlawed, but at least now shelters can respond to public pressure.

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MARCH 19, 2010

PETA and the Alliance for Animals are asking for charges to be filed against the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The university stopped conducting the experiments last fall when it learned that it may have been violating state law, said Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research at UW-Madison.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays.

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DECEMBER 5, 2009

PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. Tags: animal research Stupid primates NASA. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. We can't even get out of Afghanistan and we're going to Mars. Give me an effing break.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

PETA's undercover investigation showed some really questionable practices going on in the University of Utah's animal research program. What if an animal doesn't make it through? What if an animal doesn't make it through? Tags: animal research university of utah animal shelters. So sad, too bad?

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JUNE 4, 2009

See if you can figure out when the author starts talking about PETA. Tags: animal rights animal welfare. Here's one perspective. She doesn't mention it by name, but who else could it be?).

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FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Most of their animals get put down. Researchers told the Tribune that the testing gave the shelter animals "a second chance at life," while records obtained by the Tribune revealed that the labs had killed 116 of the 190 strays last year. Only 74 animals survived the research process to be adopted out as pets.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

From PETA's Animal Times (I tore out the page and there's no date anymore.but it was 2009). Tags: animal research medical research. The US Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association *March of Dimes *American Heart Association *Susan G. Komen and they are a pretty arrogant, corporate bunch (just an FYI!).

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JANUARY 9, 2009

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. Tags: animal rights. Worth a look.

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JUNE 9, 2009

I think that people who are pro-animal research would come away with something to ponder, definitely the sense that this is not a pretty or sanitized practice. Animal Person points out this comment made by Daniel Engber, the author. Bring on the PETA hotties!

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MAY 28, 2009

So why is one type of animal cruelty (dogfighting) more reprehensible than another (lobster-boiling)? If you are a non-meat-eating, non-leather-wearing, non-shampoo-using, animal-rights activist for PETA, then it is not hypocritical to judge Vick for animal abuse.

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MAY 11, 2009

And it's especially the case in animal rights advocacy. Many people say that PETA relies too heavily on emotion to argue its position. Tags: animal rights advocacy. You'll find this dilemma surrounding issues such as the death penalty, abortion and gay marriage. I'm really torn.

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