From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: Letters re “Proposal for an Accord Between Animal Advocates and Biomedical Researchers” HSUS president: “We must work with our traditional adversaries.” When I got involved with animal protection in the mid-1980s as an undergraduate college student, the use of animals in research, testing, and education was one of the [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: EU battery cage ban & the price of eggs BRUSSELS–The price of eggs in the shell doubled, while egg production fell 15% in the first four months after a European Union ban on battery caging, according to the European Egg Producers Association. ”The EU acknowledges that there has been a [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: Cockfighting, murder, & a lawsuit over use of a wheeled tank to make a bust McALLEN, Texas; ALEOSAN, North Cotabato, Philippines–Cockfighting preceded mass murder twice during the second week of April 2012. The killers in each case escaped, and if identified, were not named to media by survivors and [...]