Information Centre of General Animal Protection (beta)

1. Including Animals in Our Circle of Concern

experiments he conducted on dogs that made him famous (rather than infamous). Seligman delivered intense electric shocks to dogs that led to his theory of learned helplessness. But if you read his Wikipedia page, you would never know this. The

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2. What Path to Justice for Animalsâ€”Rights, Protections, Welfare?

time. We also hear of the dog that barked at flames in a house and woke his person who was able to escape. I say the dog saved his owners life, but he was barking at flames, the unusual out of the norm and not because the dog understood that

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3. The Invisible and the Innocent 10,153,000,000 Victims of the US Food Industr...

be justifiable to maim a dog because we were angry at that dog. Following this logic opens the floodgates to legally sanction all forms of violence against humans and non human animals that we are witnessing today. The answer is not more

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4. A Bittersweet Betrayal: Dogs, Rabbits and Rats Killed to Test a New Sweetener

A research dog allegedly photographed at HLS. Photo Courtesy of SHAC According to sources at SHAC (Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty), A British animal testing laboratory is at the center of controversy after it was revealed that

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5. Freedomâ€™s New Frontier: A Guide to Animal Rights

would be horrified to see a dog â€“ especially their own dog â€“ endure what animals raised for food or used in experiments endure. Single Issue Campaigns reinforce these irrational dichotomies by singling out specific uses of animals as

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6. End of Year Highlights from Freefromharm.org founder Robert Grillo

glaring examples are the dog lovers who also declare their love of ham and bacon while denying the identity of the animal behind the food, never referring directly to the pig, who is as sentient as their pet dogs. At such moments I am reminded

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7. Harvard Red Meat Study: Over 100,000 Subjects Studied Up to 28 Years

processed red meat (one hot dog or two slices of bacon) was associated with a 20% increased risk. Among specific causes, the corresponding increases in risk were 18% and 21% for cardiovascular mortality, and 10% and 16% for cancer mortality.

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8. The Chicken Chronicles Part III: Gilly's Story

with them, I know what my dog wants by the look in his eyes, or how my cat feels from her body language. When I adopted my first two chickens from a local rescue group, I had little experience living with birds, much less chickens. Of course,

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9. See No Evil: Denial and Animal Suffering (Part 1)

do to humans or the cats and dogs in our homes. Atrocities that pass unquestioned by most people include, among many others, killing homeless animals at rates of thousands per day, confining animals in unsanitary, cramped, and otherwise torturous

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10. End of Year Highlights from Freefromharm.org founder Robert Grillo

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