Animal Testing

Celebrating 20 Years of Free the Animals

Bill Maher | Posted 04.30.2012

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Free the Animals tells the riveting, real-life story of the people who put on disguises, use fake IDs, or jimmy their way into laboratories in order to carry out the daring rescues of animals used in experiments and of the insiders, the whistleblowers, who risk their jobs to help them.

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It's Right to Give Animals Rights

Kimberly Tan | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Speciesism, Morality, Factory Farming, Animal Rights, Animal Testing, Animals Rationality, Teen News

Despite the huge progress made in promoting universal human rights, the advancement of animal rights has remained disturbingly stagnant throughout history.

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WATCH: Artist Endures Animal Testing In Cosmetics Protest

Posted 04.26.2012

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How far would you go to protest animal testing in cosmetics and other consumer products? A performance artist in London recently agreed to undergo pro...

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WATCH: Celebs Support Ban On Chimpanzee Testing

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Great Ape Protection Act, Laboratory Animals, Video, Primate Testing, Animal Rights, Primates, Animal Testing, Lab Chimps, Chimpanzees, Apes, Animals, Green News

From Mother Nature Network's Michael d'Estries: Just over a year ago, Woody Harrelson sent a letter on behalf of PETA urging officials at the Natio...

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Companies Allegedly Return To Testing Makeup On Animals

Posted 02.20.2012

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From MNN blogger Starre Vartan: Seems like 2012 is already the year of repeats; debates long-considered settled are rearing their contentious heads...

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Susan G. Komen's Other Gaffe

Ingrid Newkirk | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Animal Rights, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Animal Testing, Komen Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen Planned Parenthood, Komen Animal Testing, Animal Research, Green News

Komen does women a disservice by continuing to channel funds into animal tests, while other cancer charities have moved on from such old-fashioned abominations or never engaged in them to begin with.

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How Much Space Should Lab Animals Receive?

Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Laboratory Animals, Lab Animals, Video, Lab Rats, Animal Testing, Lab Mice, Animal Testing Regulations, Animal Research Laws, Animal Experiments, Research Animals, Laboratory Animals Regulations, Animal Testing Laws, Animal Research, Animals, Green News

From Russell McLendon and Mother Nature Network: Laboratory animals have done a lot for humanity over the years, helping us find treatments and cur...

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The Beagle Freedom Project

Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Animal Rights, Christopher Sprinkle, Animal Testing, Beagle Freedom Project, Dog Park Media, Cruelty Animals, Testing Beagles, Animals FDA Testing, Test Beagles, Video, Impact News

Test beagles are born into an existence designed to be completely devoid of joy and assured of regular doses of pain and poison.

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Baby Foreskin At Center Of German 'Skin Factory'

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Skin Factory, Fraunhofer Institute, Baby Foreskin, Animal Testing, Human Skin Factory, Hautfabrik, German Skin Factory, Weird News News

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart recently created the "Skin Factory," an advanced piece of lab equipment designed to use foreskin ...

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WATCH: Lab Beagles Released, Feel Sunlight For First Time

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Animal Rescue, Animal Cruelty, Animal Lab Testing, Lab Animals, Video, Beagle Puppies, Animal Testing, Lab Beagles, Beagle Testing, Beagles, Dogs, Beagle Freedom Project, Rescued Lab Beagles, Beagles Rescue Lab Spain, Lab Beagles Released, Green News

Forty male beagles raised inside a lab in Spain arrived in Los Angeles last week where they will be put up for adoption after being freed from captivi...

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Tearjerker Alert: Lab Chimps See Sunlight For the First Time

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.04.2011

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If this doesn't make your eyes mist up a little, there might be something wrong with you. RTL, a German television station, provided this tearjerk...

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Who Cares if Animals Feel?

Ari Solomon | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Factory Farming, Animal-Sentience, Descartes, Animals, Animal Testing, Animal Abuse, Ethics, Green News

Instead of presuming that animals feel nothing, and that experiences such as fear and pain are innately human, why don't we err on the side of caution and assume that animals do feel something.

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WATCH: Shocking Lab Testing On Beagles

Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Video, Animal Lab Testing, Animal Testing, Lu Parker, Beagle Freedom Project, Beagles, Los Angeles News

Updated story. Every year, about 70,000 dogs are tested on in labs in the United States, reports KTLA. The dogs are often used in surgical exp...

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Undercover PETA Video Leads To Felony Charges For Lab Workers

AP | RENEE ELDER | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Testing Lab, Animal Rights, Peta, Animal Testing, Animal Abuse, Professional Laboratory and Research Services Inc, Animals, North Carolina, Green News

RALEIGH, N.C. — Four former workers at a North Carolina testing lab have been indicted on felony animal cruelty charges, following an animal rig...

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This Mother's Day, Speak Out for Chimpanzee Moms

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 07.06.2011

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This Mother's Day, please spare a thought for our chimpanzee sisters and their children and take action to relieve them from pain, suffering and unnecessary experimentation.

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The Federal Animal Welfare Act: Are Animals Really Better Off?

Marc Bekoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Welfare Act, Animal Welfare, Chimpanzee, Animals, Nih, Animal Testing, National Institutes of Health, Denver News

Why are mice and other animals still ignored by the federal Animal Welfare Act, despite the fact that they are sentient beings; just like the relatively few species and individuals who are protected?

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Writing Half Brother: Love, Control, And Talking Animals

Kenneth Oppel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Development, Silverwing, Animal Rights, Chimpanzee, Half Brother, Kenneth Oppel, Books, Animal Testing, Animal Experiments, Animal Parenting, Washoe-the-Chimp, Books News

Imagine, as a teenager, being told to treat a chimp like a baby brother, while never forgetting that it was also a lab specimen.

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Animal Testing: When Is a Dog Not a Dog?

Cheri Shankar | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Animals in Research, Animal Rights, Animal Testing, Healthy Living News

There are so many alternatives to animal testing in this day and age that this type of suffering can and should be abolished.

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Replacing the "Guinea Pig:" Safer, Humane Chemical Tests

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Academy of Sciences, Toxic Chemicals, Mice, Toxicology, Lab Animals, Guinea Pigs, Animal Testing, Environmental Defense Fund, Rats, Animal Research, Toxic Substances Control Act, Animal Protection, Chemical Testing, Green News

Animal tests are expensive and time consuming, and their relevance is often questioned by stakeholders on one side or the other, leading to disputes over which chemicals represent a real threat.

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Animals, Medical Testing and Compassion

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Pcrm, Animal Testing, Vegan, Medical School, Cancer, Marilu Henner, Johns Hopkins, Health, Animals, Healthy Living News

Is there any circumstance when animal experimentation or the use of animals in medical education would be warranted? "No." That brief, to the point,...

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Part the Third and Final: The White Rabbit Vanishes (We Hope) Down the Rabbit Hole!

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Animal-Lab-Testing, Medical-Testing, Lab Animals, Animal Testing, Healthy Living News

I've tried to present both "sides" and provide a glimpse of a "typical" procedure. Now I'm hoping that the truth about the need for animal testing for human health and survival will finally "out."

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An Open Letter to the Animal Liberation Front and their Supporters

Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vivisection, Jane Goodall, Peter Singer, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Primates, Animal Testing, Racism, Animal Liberation Front, John Brown, Los Angeles News

The terror tactics used against the family of UCLA neuroscientist Dario Ringach has completely undermined the moral authority that your movement hoped to achieve.

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On the Trail of the White Rabbit: The Case Against Animal Testing

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Care, Government Spending, Medicine, Animal Testing, Healthy Living News

People believe that animal research saves lives. But is this true?

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ONION: $1.2M Study Shows Stabbing Harmful To Monkeys (VIDEO)

The Onion | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science, Animals, Monkeys, Satire, Animal Testing, The Onion, Video, Green News

Do you ever see a scientific study and think, yeah, great, we knew that. Someone very close to me occasionally refers to her least favorite one recent...

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Two Accused Of Targeting, Harassing, Attempting To Injure UCLA Scientist

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crime, Animals, Animal Liberation Front, Animal Rights, Animal Testing, Activism, Extremism, Ucla, Green News

LOS ANGELES — Two animal rights activists were charged Monday with conspiracy, stalking and other crimes against researchers at University of Ca...

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