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IN(TRANS)IGENT CRUELTY: U.S. Congress holds hearings of taxpayer funded animal cruelty
IN(TRANS)IGENT CRUELTY: U.S. Congress holds hearings of taxpayer funded animal cruelty

U.S. CONGRESS: The Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) delivered opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing titled, “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty.” In her opening statement, Subcommittee Chairwoman Mace highlighted how the Biden-Harris Administration spent millions of taxpayer dollars on cruel and unnecessary animal testing research. She continued by emphasizing that recently developed technological tools can more accurately model human biology and identify solutions that are more useful for human patients, but the federal bureaucracy has blocked novel advancements from being utilized. She closed by thanking the […]

JUSTICE IN ACTION: Justifying force against animal cruelty
JUSTICE IN ACTION: Justifying force against animal cruelty

ROSS CAMPBELL: Lord Erskine, a chancellor of England in the nineteenth century and famous animal lover, once came across a man beating his horse and objected to the abuse. After the man exclaimed “can’t I do what I like with my own,” Erskine smacked him with his stick and replied “and so can I — this stick is my own.” Besides being an anecdote that would endear Erskine in the minds of activists for many years to come, this scenario evokes a curious question so far unanswered in the law: just how far are ordinary people allowed to go to […]

‘They All Had Eyes’: The story of a former vivisectionist who regrets his choices
‘They All Had Eyes’: The story of a former vivisectionist who regrets his choices

DREW HOUSMAN: ‘They All Had Eyes’ by Michael Slusher is a book that has an acknowledgements page that begins like this: ‘This book is dedicated to the many animals whom I tortured and killed in the name of science. If there is a hell, I will spend it forever looking into their eyes’… Michael Slusher was a nerdy young 22 year old in 1985, struggling to find work after battling substance abuse issues. He found work at a research company called Applied Lipids, working with the lab rats and doing data entry. Applied Lipids was like the Portlandia “put a […]

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IN(TRANS)IGENT CRUELTY: U.S. Congress holds hearings of taxpayer funded animal cruelty
IN(TRANS)IGENT CRUELTY: U.S. Congress holds hearings of taxpayer funded animal cruelty
JUSTICE IN ACTION: Justifying force against animal cruelty
JUSTICE IN ACTION: Justifying force against animal cruelty
‘They All Had Eyes’: The story of a former vivisectionist who regrets his choices
‘They All Had Eyes’: The story of a former vivisectionist who regrets his choices
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