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http://www.care2.com/greenliving/cruel-beauty-which-
companies-test-on-animals.html#
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Jessica Furtado
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An article on cosmetic companies and animal testing. The article discusses how many companies falsely label their products as "cruelty free" or "not tested on animals". By hiring outside companies to do research, cosmetics suppliers can claim that they do not test on animals since they do not literally do it themselves even if they are the ones responsible for hiring others to do the dirty work. The companies provide information that is "literal" but "disingenuous". The article also discusses how to figure out which labels to trust and encourages consumers to push retailers toward cruelty-free practices.
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| http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1815241,00.html |
Jennifer
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The article is a question and answer piece with Frankie Trull, president of the non-profit Foundation for Biomedical Research. He refers to animals as our surrogates, whcih we need to use to test drugs to see if they serve their intended purpose and how they effect the rest of our body. I found it interesting that scientists to not turn to one particular animal to do the testing one, like I previously thought. They accctually pick the animal that has the organ system that best represents the human. They then test the drug that is targeting that area. They use pigs more often then dogs. However, the article does point out that even though they use the animals to see how the druge may affect humans, they are not 100% sure how the drug will work on human beings until it is distributed to a human. He ends the interview with science that the scientific community it trying to find alternatives to animal medical testing, but it is hard to find something to mimic it. I feel that animal testing is cruel on the animal, but it is necessary to test the side affects of drugs before causing an epidemic in the human population. An alternative should be strongly researched for the welfare of the animals.
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| http://leapingbunny.org/indexcus.php |
Samantha Ruminski |
The website that I focused on is called Theleapingbunny.org, I found the webpage by going through the animal anit-vivisections societies website. The leaping bunny gives out their logo to cosmetics and cosmetic companies that are qualified to be cruelty free to animals. The company assures costumers that no animals are harmed or tested on the product they are purchasing. They also sell personal care products and house products. The site urges people to take action against animal testing by buying their products carefully and asking companies like clinique to join the leaping bunny. The company is in assosiacion with both the canadian and american humane society.
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| http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/cosmetic_testing/ |
Alicia Robillon |
This is a video from the humane society that explains what people should be looking for on their products to ensure that the product has not been tested on animals. They also give some alternatives to animal testing that are breaking through and have informative statistics on their page about animal experimentation. This page specifically focuses on cosmetic and product testing, but there are other areas on their site that look into more issues of animal research. This was helpful as a consumer because some of the labels are quite ambiguous and it is helpful to know what to look for. |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRBcHIIsXc |
Kristina Wiltjer |
This video is a little disturbing but it’s a PEATA video talking about animal testing. Its three people asking why someone would test on animal and explaining that are genetics are not the same. There for the results would vary. It also show very graphic picture, and asks the question if we could ask for the animal’s consent how would we go about asking them.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEXLLcyVOj0 |
Theresa James
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This video is about testing that goes on at Wickham Labs. This was video taped by undercover reporters for BUAV TV. It is a bit graphic.
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| http://www.cosmeticanimaltestingpictures.com/ |
Christina Petrone |
This website includes an abundance of cosmetic animal testing pictures. It shows what the animals go through, it's pretty graphic and really sad. |
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http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/newforest/news/
8483897.Animal_lovers_take_their_pets_to_church/
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Denise Belmonte
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This is an article about the other side of animal testing, an article about the scientists. I thought this article was interesting because it shows that sometimes, the animal rights group takes things a bit too far. The animal rights activists took it upon themselves to harass the scientists at the lab which did use animal testing as a means of research. This article shows that with any given group, there will always be an extremist. I find this so unfortunate because when someone acts in a manner so immature and violent, it turns others away from their cause. No one would want to side with someone who did the disgusting things to the scientists. In a way, people who go to the extreme are really only hurting their own cause, and it is unfortunate because it is obvious that they feel so strongly about animal research, and yet, went about all the wrong ways to protest it. I feel that a more peaceful and rational method would have been more useful for their cause. Now, both are spending time in jail when they could have spent that time protesting peacefully actually making a difference and saving some animal's life.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgFWIh71KjY
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sam erickson |
This video is pretty graphic at times and isn’t easy to watch at parts. It shows a very extreme side of animal testing which questions how necessary it really is. It shows lots of harsh treatment toward the animals and it shows the faults of the tests and how ineffective these extreme measures can be sometimes for their intended goal of protecting people from poisonous drugs/chemicals, and simply be the killing and creation of suffering onto these animals.
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| http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/episkin_growing.php |
Shannon Nelligan |
This article centers on a product called Episkin, which will hopefully replace the need to test cosmetics and chemicals on animals. Episkin is an artificial skin derived from cells of the epidermis and can be manipulated to meet the needs of a specific test. For instance it can be tanned and aged. The product could potentially greatly reduce the number of animals who suffer for research purposes. |
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827831.100-naked-and-ugly-the-new-face-of-lab-rats.html?page=1
Naked and Ugly: The New Face Of Lab Rats
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Kelley Irving |
This article talks about why naked mole rates are becoming labs' most popular rat. These rats are highly social, live long life spans, are generally in good health and appear to be impervious to cancer. They also (supposedly) don't feel chemical pain. |
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1815241,00.html
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Zachary Conroy
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This article is about the usefulness of animal testing in finding cures for human diseases. One problem with animal testing is that people are very different from the animals that drugs are tested on. The article talks about how another problem with animal testing is the fact that most times, the medicine or procedure being administered is only targeting one organ or one system of the body. Just because an animal has a similar organ as humans (for example, a pig's heart) doesn't mean that it's complex, interrelated systems will respond to a drug the same way a human's would. Another mentioned example of failing to extrapolate data relevant to humans from animal testing is how dogs are poisoned by chocolate while humans are not affected.
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http://www.geekologie.com/2009/01/cows_with_holes_directly_to_th.php
http://www.thelantern.com/2.1345/a-window-to-the-world-of-a-cow-s-stomach-1.89665
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Heather McAtamney
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This link is to a site that has pictures on "cow windows" Cow windows is a surgical procedure done leaving an open view to the inside of a cow's stomach. It is rather graphic, and some may find it disturbing ( I do). This is done so that students, teachers, and researchers have a better look into how cows digest. The second link is a news article on the subject and is less graphic then the 1st link.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14139027/?ref=nf
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Hali Vik
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This article is.... Sad. It about the extermination of dogs in China. I posted it here for two reasons, first because it highlights the cultural differentiation in how we view companion animal. Secondly, because culturally we see it as the extermination of pets- but they see it as the control of wildlife. I feel like the cultural division between the United States and other countries becomes very prominent on this topic. I emailed one of my friends who's working in China right now, and the way he explained this was, "people see dogs as wild, feral animals." So they aren't respected as a companion animals the way they are here. Now ask yourself the question: with the vile reaction that you had initially to hearing they were exterminating dogs- would it be as disturbing if they were exterminating coyotes? Because that's kind of the way people think about feral dogs. I know that's not the best comparison- or even the most accurate considering they are killing pets as well... But it somewhat articulates what I mean. Lastly, why do they blame all the rabies on the dogs? Rabies can be carried in any mammal species... ?
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| http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/2/357.htm |
kevin Bowers |
This is a link from the Center Of Disease Control about the problems of rabies in coyote populations. i have chosen this article because it hits very close to home for me, i live in a rural part of the town of tyngsboro, i myself have encountered coyote's on several occasions. Most of my contact with these animals have been at night, when they are investigation trash or they will pick up on the scent of the dogs in the neighborhood. I have encountered coyotes in the backyard of my nextdoor neightbors house. They have such concerns about the coyote population they DO NOT let the dogs out at night. seeing a coyote up close they are large and feral creatures. I often have concern when going outside at night because of the possibility of there being a coyote, the possibility of rabies and these creatures i feel is good cause for people in rural to be aware of the possibilites. |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict Resolution
http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/coastaleastafrica/reducinghuman-wildlife.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2QQFG9_C-w
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Peter Baroud
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Mozambican farmers have had a history of trouble with elephants trampling on fields while foraging for food. In some instances, humans have died as a result of conflicts between humans and the elephants which did not go well. However, the situation has been mitigated with help from WWF, by planting some chilli peppers around the fields, which elephants have a distaste for. This will keep elephants away a safe distance from humans, as well as protect the farms which the Mozambian people use to sustain themselves.
Elephant attacks also happen in Sri Lanka, and India, and other parts of the world where human and wildlife live in close proximity with one another.
I've also added a youtube video showing how powerful elephants actually could be. It is a video of an elephant that ended up in a Sri Lankan village, and basically almost crushed a car.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxEpiybtIE |
Jeffrey Nieves |
I found this clip while bouncing around through different video on youtube. Just as warning this video is very disturbing. This video is about the experimentation, abuse, and neglect of monkeys in a lab in Virginia. Experimenters stick tubes down these animals throats, hit them, and put the monkeys inside of plastic tubes. The monkeys seem like they are going crazy from isolation because they just walk around in circles in their cages when not being experimented on. This video really confused me because I wasn't sure that there was any underlying point to the methods of experimentation by these researchers. It is hard to believe there are places like this in our country because we are sheltered from it but animal testing and abuse is widespread and many people do not support it. |
| http://www.huffingtonpost.com/camilla-fox/coyote-fox-penning-a-bloo_b_620435.html |
Asma Hussin |
The article, Coyote & Fox Penning: A Blood Sport That Must End, by Camilla Fox discusses the problem with penning, a cruel "sport" that “involves sending packs of domestic dogs into a fenced-off enclosure to chase to exhaustion and often tear apart a captive coyote or fox”. We had previously discussed something similar in class with people training dogs to hunt wild animals. There is a debate over banning this act, as it is still “legal in several Midwestern and Southeastern states”. Considering that this is done for entertainment and is unfair for the animal that is being hunted, there isn't any real valid reason why this "sport" shouldn't be banned.
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| http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/81120697.html |
Matt O'Donnell |
This article is about the coyote killings that is taking place in the United States, specifically the state of Nevada. The USDA wildlife services killed close to 100,000 coyotes in the year 2008 and animal welfare groups in Nevada want some control because hunters can kill coyotes by any methods they want. There are coyote hunting tournaments and many opponents to this say that the killing effects the natural order of things. Local ranchers who lose moeny because of the coyotes killing and eating their livestock wonder why the animal welfare activist point the finger at them and not the government, who are flying in and killing the coyotes monthly. Project Coyote was created and launched to give ranchers funds for non leathal ways of dealing with the coyotes. |
| http://www.geari.org/alternatives-to-animal-testing.html |
Matthew Flynn |
This link gets into the details of alternatives to animal testing. PETA claims that these alternatives are less expensive and can be more successful. Such as testing on human cells. Nearly all federally funded research is paid for with tax dollars. To help sto animal testing...PETA suggests to write to the heads of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Toxicology Program, and Health Canada. |
http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/14/technology-aims-to-replace-animal-testing.html
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Sarah Chaulk
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Hurel Corp is creating alternative ways to test cosmetics. Instead of testing on animals the idea is to use human cells grown in a lab. Scientists can see how a human body would normally react using these cells. It has the potential to be more reliable and less expensive than animal testing. The successful development of this technology “could eliminate the need for tens of thousands of test animals each year.” PETA is giving Hurel Corp an innovation award for “animal achievement in commerce”. These cells can also be used to test house hold cleaners and other commonly used chemicals. This new technology could potentially eliminate the use of animal testing in the future. I hope this goes into effect soon. Animal testing, especially for cosmetics, is so cruel.
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| http://www.aavs.org/researchProblems.html |
richard ranlett |
The AAVS makes it clear throughout their website that they do not support biomedical research. They state many cons to biomedical research, but it seems as if the website is more opinion than facts and this comes from a legitimate organization. The purpose of the website is to inform the public that there are indeed alternatives to animal research, and that these alternatives are more thorough and accurate than the animal research being used now. The American Anti Vivisection Society has good groundwork for the argument against animal cruelty and experimentation, but I believe that other organizations’ approaches would be more successful.
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http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/local_news/x1775764633
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Aaron Widell
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This link is about Coyote population in Massachusertts. The population has moved to more rural areas, including Framingham where 37 coyote incidents had been reported in 2006. There numbers, at press, are 8,500 in the state and the population seems stable because of their habitance of most available areas. These animals are known to hunt domestic animals, but hunting them is not necessarily going to stop their existence. They are an interesting species because as their numbers are reduced, their litters seem to increase. This means we should probably get used to seeing them every so often in the state of Massachusetts.
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http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/urbcoyot.htm
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daniel Bauer
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This article explains how coyotes thrive in urban areas. Studies suggest that urban coyote populations are larger than rural and are expected to live longer than those in rural settings. They are also more active during the nighttime. These coyotes help control the Canadian geese population. The research was conducted in the Chicago metropolitan area where coyotes were captured but then let go. They could be found everywhere but capturing them was the hard part as they were used to traps. Coyotes aren’t dangerous unless you feed them, they usually try to avoid humans and feed on rodents and other pests.
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"Animal Research Means Medical Progress"
http://www.amprogress.org/animal-research-benefits
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Jenna David |
This article is from the organization Americans for Medical Progress. It provides numerous examples of how animal research has furthered medical advancement. At the very beginning of the article it says “we all benefit from the use of laboratory animals in biomedical research”. The article gives examples of how animal experimentation has lead to innovations in the medical field from cancer to bioterrorism medical countermeasures. I wish this article would have included how animal experimentation helps other animals to strengthen the “all” part. In general the article does a decent job in getting people to think about the benefits of animal research.
I think it is much more difficult to rule out animal experimentation when thinking about it in this way. We all know at least one person who has gone through cancer. It is quite personal and brings out strong emotions in people. I tend to side with Peter Singer in this respect, opposed to the rightist view.
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| http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/14/technology-aims-to-replace-animal-testing.html |
Nick Bouchard
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According to this article from the associated press, technology created by Hurel Corp., which grows human skin cultures, could possibly be ready next year to test cosmetics. This will not only make it so animals are not tested on, but also be a much better testing platform, as it will allow cosmetics to be directly tested on human skin. PETA and other animals rights organizations are applauding Hurel Corp. 's efforts and are even providing some support, along with L'Oreal who is providing most of their funding.
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http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2010
/10/reward_offered_in_dog_poisonings_102710.html
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Maghda Amrani |
I found this interesting because it was suspicious. Although it isn’t yet proven who has been poisoning these innocent dogs, considering that more than one dog has been found to be poisoned, it leads one to think the possibility that someone may be testing these animals with their product randomly. Perhaps a company that does not want to be caught testing such a product due to the cruelty. Its all allegations without any basis for it, yet it is something to think about. SO, while this article isn’t the traditional animal research you think about, it isn’t unheard of and following up would be interesting.
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| http://www.ksbw.com/r/25633031/detail.html |
Mario Boiardi
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This press advisory came out about 4 hours ago. In the tradition of human-wildlife contact, somebody in California is trying to decorate seagulls with beer can necklaces. This is a crime, fortunately, and a reward is offered. But it just goes to show that you don't necessarily need to be encroaching on territory in some borderland where your backyard is the woods to endanger wildlife. You can even do it going to a beach in California with people all around you!
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http://animals.change.org/blog/view/former_astronaut_says_nasa_should_leave_curious_george_alone
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Ben Anderson
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My article talked about whether or not squirrel monkeys should under go radioactive testing to gain knowledge into astronauts getting radiation in space. They plan to train the monkeys to do various tasks, then they will hit the with extremely high levels of radiation and see how they perform. Even Astronauts are standing out against this saying they dont see the point, and that the 1.5 million dollar budget could be better used elsewhere like looking into better shielding for space ships.
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Comments (2)
Peter said
at 5:39 pm on Nov 3, 2010
I found what Hali's conversation with her friend rather interesting. It does exemplify how different cultures value life and things in general differently. In most cases those values are completely arbitrary, regardless of whatever Historic, cultural, social, aspects are included - it is still rather strange how human beings judge non-human animals based on taxonomic classification.
Peter said
at 5:40 pm on Nov 3, 2010
Well, not solely on taxonomic classifications, some animals look prettier than others, I guess.
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