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	Torturing Animals and Claiming it is Science for Our Own Good
	By: AGelbert Date: October 29, 2013, 9:38 pm
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	[quote]Did you know that animal testing does not even accurately
	measure the effect the product may have on a human?
	This video, which contains no graphic imagery at all, explains
	why this is not only unjustified cruelty, but flawed
	science.
	http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000370273/polls_Smiley_Angry_256x256_3451_3561…

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	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6x4vkLyu7E&feature=player_embedded
	[color=green]Take the Leap to Cruelty-Free Products
	http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/humane-treatment-of-animals/cruelty-free-prod…
	[move]Watch out for Leaping Bunny imitations to fool you. NEVER
	trust ANY advertising until you have fact checked it.
	Corporations in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals or whatever are KNOWN
	for experimenting on animals and claiming they DON'T or, if they
	DO, they "do it humanely" for the good of human civilization.
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	Wildlife "services" is really Big AG cruelty and death
	to Animals!
	By: AGelbert Date: January 5, 2014, 9:43 pm
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	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSV8pRLkdKI&feature=player_embedded
	Shoot 'em, Shut up and Shovel 'em is the sick, twisted and cruel
	mantra of Government funded Predator "Control" that ends up
	killing countless domestic dogs and non-target raptors and even
	some livestock!
	Poisons that have been illegal for decades are being used by the
	government!
	Please spread this video everywhere to stop this horror as soon
	as we can. Natural predators like mountain lions and coyotes
	aren't the problem, BIG AG is the problem! >:(
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	Re: Torturing Animals and Claiming it is Science for Our Own Goo
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	By: AGelbert Date: May 3, 2014, 4:47 pm
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	Demonstration against animal testing in Paris
	 Krisztina Kupi

	 May 2nd, 2014

	 Animal Rights
	Last Saturday afternoon about 200 people demonstrated in Paris
	against animal testing in scientific research, according to AFP.
	On 26 April, activists gathered in Paris� Place de la R�publique
	for the abolition of animal testing in scientific research. The
	demonstration was organized by International Campaigns, an
	activist collective for animal rights.
	All the participants in the demonstration were dressed in white
	and formed a silent and static triangle while waving boards that
	denounced animal research, animal testing and vivisection. The
	demonstration took place as an event related to the World Day of
	Laboratory Animals, held every year on April 24.
	Activist leader Eric Moreau told French news agency AFP:
	The demonstration has a double purpose. One of the goals is to
	denounce the fate animals have in laboratories and mainly to
	demand authorities to fund and develop research methods without
	animals. These methods already exist but they are grossly
	underfinanced. >:(
	As citizens, we are here to show what laboratories do not want
	to show behind their walls. But we also know that the priority
	to make things develop is the massive and generalized funding of
	methods that do not involve animals. Animal testing is a
	political problem.
	International Campaigns, a French activist collective for
	animals, was founded in 2003 and since then they have organized
	international and local campaigns to raise public awareness of
	animal rights and the sad fate of laboratory animals. Besides
	their demonstration against animal testing held in Paris, they
	have recently organized several campaigns all around France to
	raise awareness of a diet without animal products.
	As the organization says on their website, they hope to make
	people think about the brutal exploitation of animals which is
	usually motivated by the pleasure or profit seeking of humans.
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	Re: Torturing Animals and Claiming it is Science for Our Own Goo
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	By: AGelbert Date: May 17, 2014, 12:29 am
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	More Openness on Lab Animals
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	Dozens of U.K. research groups agree to publicly disclose more
	information about their animal subjects.
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	By Kerry Grens \| May 15, 2014
	WIKIMEDIA, JANET STEPHENS
	Pharmaceutical behemoth Bayer used 142,084 animals�primarily
	mice and rats�for research in 2013. Posting these data online,
	the firm illustrates where public disclosure is headed in the
	U.K. in terms of how�and how many�animal subjects are employed
	in the service of science. Dozens of research organizations in
	the U.K. this week (May 14) signed an agreement to more openly
	share information on animal studies.
	�For many years, the only �information� or images that the
	public could access about animal research were provided by
	organisations opposed to the use of animals in scientific
	progress,� Wendy Jarrett, the chief executive of Understanding
	Animal Research and the chair of the working group that
	developed the Concordat on Openness on Animal Research in the
	U.K., said in a statement. Signatories of the Concordat,
	including professional societies, biomedical companies, and
	universities, agreed to disclose when, how, and why they use
	animals in research and to be more open with the public and the
	media about animal research. [img width=80
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	Animal rights organizations were not appeased by the effort to
	create more transparency. [img width=80
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	Wendy
	Higgins, [img width=40
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	/>the communications director of the Humane Society Internationa
	l,
	told the BBC: �[b]This Concordat presents a veneer of openness
	but it�s actually just another platform for obscuring the
	unpalatable truth about animal experiments. >:(�[/b] Michelle
	Thew, [img width=40
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	/>the chief executive of the British Union for the Abolition of
	Vivisection, wrote in a blog post at The Huffington Post UK that
	the Concordat �is simply transparency on their terms with
	researchers having complete control over what the public gets to
	see.� :( >:(
	http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/39999/title/More-Opennes…
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	Torturing Animals and Claiming it is Science for Our Own Good (B
	OTH WRONG!)
	By: AGelbert Date: June 4, 2014, 10:02 pm
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	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGEwEqXGZfg&feature=player_embedded<br
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	Senseless Wildlfe Killings
	By: AGelbert Date: June 10, 2014, 10:35 pm
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	◦more than 320 gray wolves
	◦75,326 coyotes
	◦419 black bears
	◦866 bobcats
	◦528 river otters
	◦3,706 foxes
	◦12,186 black-tailed prairie dogs (as well as destroyed
	more than 30,000 dens)
	◦3 golden eagles
	Were ALL KILLED [img width=30
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	/>by our Government in 2013. [img width=30
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	Your Tax Dollars at "work" murdering innocent animals...
	2 Million Animals Killed by Federal Wildlife Program in 2013
	http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/09/2-million-animals-killed-wildlife-program/
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	Re: Torturing Animals and Claiming it is Science for Our Own Goo
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	By: AGelbert Date: June 18, 2014, 2:18 pm
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	Simple Solutions for Coexistence of Wolves and Livestock
	Suzanne Asha Stone, Defenders of Wildlife \| June 18, 2014 11:26
	am
	The night sky was completely dark except for the light from the
	Milky Way when I heard the dogs starting to growl. They could
	hear movement in the woods near the sheep bedgrounds and were
	automatically on guard. Wolves were denned not far away but I
	couldn�t yet tell what had the Great Pyrenees on edge. A few
	sheep baaed sleepily in response to the growls. The band of ewe
	sheep had been anxious lately after their lambs had been
	separated from them to be shipped to market. In the starlight, I
	could still make out the snowcapped peaked of central Idaho�s
	majestic Sawtooth Mountains across the valley.
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	Photo courtesy of Shutterstock
	The wind stirred fluttering the aspen leaves in the trees around
	me as the dogs starting circling around the sheep, growling
	deeply. In the distance, a wolf howled and filled the valley
	with his lonely song. Coyotes quickly chimed in over the hills
	to our east. I scrambled out of my sleeping bag and searched for
	my flashlight but couldn�t find it. I did find the telemetry
	scanner and flipped it on. Given the summer temperatures, the
	Forest Service had set a ban on campfires and I could feel the
	sudden chill of the damp night air. I hadn�t slept well earlier
	that night because of the noise from the sheep band. The ewes
	were calling for their lambs until they finally settled down.
	Even calm sheep are noisy at night though. Whoever invented the
	fable about counting sheep at night to get a restful sleep had
	clearly never spent the night with the wooly beasts. ;D My
	teeth were chattering as I scanned for radio signals. Bingo. The
	loud steady beep confirmed that the alpha male was close by.
	This was my first night on my own at sheep camp as part of the
	new wolf guardians program, and the year was 1999. I listened to
	the two dogs as they paced. They were growing even more
	defensive. A wolf howled closer this time from the direction of
	the telemetry signal and then gave two short warning barks. Oh
	great. A train wreck was getting ready to take place.
	Wolves are usually wary of dogs but these wolves had pups nearby
	to protect. I had warned the sheep owner that moving his band
	toward the den site would likely cause a reaction from the
	wolves as they perceive that the dogs are just funny looking
	strange wolves and strange wolves are a serious threat to their
	pups. The dogs started barking loudly and charging toward the
	sound. I didn�t have any more time to look for my flashlight or
	my boots. Instead I grabbed the first things that I could find�a
	metal pot and a wooden spoon�and charged out toward the
	direction of the signal clanging away on the pot and yelling at
	the top of my lungs. Seconds later, I could hear a large animal
	running away through the brush and splashing across the small
	creek. Half an hour later, the dogs settled back down and I
	spent the rest of the night watching for falling stars. I
	counted dozens before I finally drifted off to sleep before
	dawn.
	That night happened 15 years ago; just five years after wolves
	were reintroduced to Idaho. It was the beginning of my efforts
	to help local ranchers adapt to co-existing with wolves using
	nonlethal deterrents to protect their livestock and to help keep
	wolves from being killed in response to preying on sheep and
	cattle.
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	Nonlethal tools like fladry�hanging strips of fabric from fence
	lines�have proven extremely effective at deterring wolves from
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	Nonlethal deterrents were ridiculed in those early days. I knew
	that telling people that I chased off a wolf with a wooden spoon
	and a metal pot wouldn�t help convince the skeptics so I didn�t
	share that part of the story with many of the managers at the
	time. ;) ;D Fladry was a brand new tool being tested (and
	laughed at) >:( in the Salmon River country. Radio activated
	guard systems that blared out everything from the sounds of
	helicopters to rifles firing to rock music ::) when they
	detected a wolf�s radio signal were being tested and revised for
	broader use. Few ranchers were willing to embrace these new (and
	some very old) techniques
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	and were encouraged by
	the federal U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 'Wildlife
	Services�
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	A few people stuck with the new tools though. [img width=40
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	/>[/i]Rick Williamson from Wildlife Services in Idaho
	revolutionized the fladry system by making it electrified. His
	wife Carol built miles and miles of the new �turbofladry� by
	hand on her sewing machine. Rick received a national award for
	his innovative efforts from USDA, yet many of his colleagues
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	to the ranchers like they accepted wolves on the landscape when
	most
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	This week, we held a workshop and field tour highlighting more
	than a decade of refining and adding new nonlethal tools to our
	program at the site of the largest nonlethal wolf and sheep
	coexistence project in the region. In central Idaho�s Sawtooth
	National Forest�a sheep superhighway and also wolf
	territory�Blaine County ranchers, county, state and federal
	agencies, and local wolf advocates are working together to
	effectively resolve conflicts using nonlethal wolf management
	and livestock husbandry methods. These methods include
	deterrents like fladry, livestock guard dogs and electric
	fencing, that dramatically reduce or eliminate livestock losses
	and build social acceptance for wolves. And the results are
	undeniable. For the last six years, a total of more than 100,000
	sheep and lambs have grazed across this area amidst wolf packs.
	Yet fewer than 30 sheep have been killed in the project area
	during this time, and no wolves have been killed by government
	agencies in the project area.
	These nonlethal control methods are cheaper than lethal wolf
	management, and Blaine County also has the lowest rate of
	livestock losses in the state. If you�re interested in learning
	more about these methods, let us know. We�re always eager to
	encourage those who have an open mind on the value of working
	together to resolve conflicts effectively by protecting both
	livestock and wolves.
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	http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/18/sicoexistence-wolves-and-livestock/
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	Re: Torturing Animals and Claiming it is Science for Our Own Goo
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	By: AGelbert Date: July 21, 2014, 6:50 pm
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	http://viewrz.com/video/gary-yourofsky-on-violence-to-defend-animal-rights-what…
	I think this fellow makes a lot of sense! ;D
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	By: AGelbert Date: October 12, 2014, 9:50 pm
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	Virginia C o ckfighting Case
	Friday, October 10, 2014 - 5:00pm
	In May, the ASPCA assisted in the rescue, removal and sheltering
	of more than 550 birds from properties associated with c
	ockfighting in Virginia. Five people charged in conjunction with
	the case have now received sentencing, and today we have an
	update on their status.
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	On Thursday, a federal judge sentenced Kentucky man Walter
	Stumbo, 51, to 18 months in prison. His wife, Sonya Stumbo, 51,
	and their son, Joshua Stumbo, 33, each received ten months.
	Sonya Stumbo was convicted at trial and the other two pleaded
	guilty to multiple charges, including possession of an animal
	for use in animal fighting.
	In addition, Wesley Robinson, 57, and his son Jonathan Robinson,
	33, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to operate an
	illegal gambling enterprise and illegally conducting c
	ockfights; one count of transporting fighting roosters across
	state lines; one count of transporting bird fighting knives
	across state lines; and one count of illegally distributing
	oxycodone.
	On August 27, Wesley Robinson was sentenced to six months in
	prison. On October 8, Jonathan Robinson was sentenced to join
	his father in prison for a sentence of one year and one day.
	�The cruel and inhumane practice of c o ckfighting has no place
	in civilized society and is against federal law,� U.S. Attorney
	Timothy J. Heaphy said in a written statement. �We will
	vigorously investigate and prosecute individuals who attend,
	facilitate, or profit from the misery inflicted on animals
	during these barbaric fights.�
	In the aftermath of the raid, the ASPCA has learned more about
	the illegal c ockfighting operation. Known as the �Big Blue� C
	ock Fighting Pit, the enterprise in McDowell, Kentucky, featured
	arena-style seating, multiple fighting pits and a restaurant.
	The Robinsons reportedly brought the birds from Wise County,
	Virginia, to Big Blue on weekends, and spectators allegedly
	travelled from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
	Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, and other
	states to attend fights at Big Blue.
	�Big Blue� had approximately 5,000 members. Entrance fees ranged
	from $250 to $2,500, and over $90,000 in cash was seized at the
	Stumbo�s home.
	http://www.aspca.org/blog
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	Re: Torturing Animals and Claiming it is Science for Our Own Goo
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	By: AGelbert Date: October 25, 2014, 8:53 pm
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