It’s just not fair, said Peat Willcutt. How can it be legal to have goats, pigs and bees in St. Paul, but people in Minneapolis have to hide theirs?
As urban agriculture booms in the Twin Cities area, Minneapolis residents are pressing their city to let them expand their backyard farms beyond chickens to bees [...]
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) — Animal-rights activists want the United States to stop using animals as subjects to help train its military, calling the medical and trauma exercises cruel and a disservice to the troops.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter Monday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking him to replace the use [...]
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There is an aura of content among the donkeys, cows, pigs, goats, horses, rabbits and cats at Rosia Kennedy’s Rainbow End Farm in Granby.
Kennedy rescued all of the 45 animals at the 8-acre farm from abuse, neglect or slaughter. Today they live in stalls and cages kept spic-and-span by Kennedy, a wiry 4-foot-11-inch woman with [...]
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The European Union’s top food safety agency said on Thursday cloned animal products may not be safe and further study was needed, prompting another battle of conscience within the bloc over the merits of new technology.
“It is clear there are significant animal health and welfare issues for surrogate mothers and clones that can be more [...]
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PETA is calling for a halt to planned medical trauma training in Hawaii that involves soldiers being instructed to shoot pigs, but the U.S. army says it will proceed with the exercise.
The exercise, scheduled for Friday, is intended to teach soldiers heading to Iraq this year how to treat injured colleagues on the battlefield.
Kathy Guillermo, [...]
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Smythson, the Queen’s stationer, has been criticised for selling luxury leather gifts using the skins of rare lizards.
The Bond Street stationer, which employs Samantha Cameron, the wife of the Conservative leader David Cameron, is reportedly selling at least a dozen products made from the [...]
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Perhaps you remember the pigs that were stranded in Iowa because of severe flooding? That volunteers from four animal welfare agencies were trying to reach the animals with feed, apples and Gatorade? Well, the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch column reports some success:
After nearly three weeks on the ground undertaking an unprecedented disaster response effort, [...]
A bipartisan group of senators hopes to block importation of livestock from Argentina until it’s clear the nation is free of foot-and-mouth disease.
South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson, a Democrat, and Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi, a Republican, introduced legislation Thursday to prevent livestock importation from Argentina until the U.S. Department of Agriculture can certify that it’s [...]
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The U.S. military’s medical school in Bethesda is drawing criticism from a coalition of physicians and military officers for using live animals in some medical procedures, such as surgeries, a practice many medical schools have long abandoned.
Students and faculty at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences insert breathing tubes in live ferrets [...]
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British scientists plan to create the world’s first human stem cells from embryos that are part human and part animal, after the government’s fertility watchdog approved the research.
The team at Warwick Medical School hope to use the stem cells to study fatal heart diseases, after being granted a year-long licence for the controversial work by [...]
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