Tag: vivisection
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Sometimes
* SometimesThe mostAcademically eliteAre missing part of their brain.The most important part.The part that would stop themDoing this.
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Great News! – Leading Vet School Ends Deadly Animal Labs!
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has been working for years to end the use of animals in “terminal” training exercises at veterinary schools—in which students perform procedures on otherwise healthy animals, who are then killed. Today they are happy to report that one of the nation’s highest-ranked vet schools, Colorado State University, has…
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Mufti Day
Story continues from yesterday. For the story so far, click here 😀 The following morning everyone arrived at school in clothes of their own choosing. Some had clearly taken ages with hair and make-up; some wore ridiculously impractical shoes; some wore the latest High Street fashions; most wore jeans and T-shirt. Nine wore school uniform. …
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Summons
For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 😀 Story continues from yesterday: The first lesson on Thursday afternoons was P.E. Tania and Isabel were getting changed for hockey. “Oh no!” said Isabel as she tipped out the contents of her kit bag, “I forgot my socks!” Tania laughed. “Oh well, you’ll just have to wear your…
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Telling the truth
For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 😀 Story continues from yesterday: Isabel, meanwhile, had arrived at school a few minutes early and was making her way to the I.T. lab while it was still empty. Entering the corridor at one end she saw a cleaner leaving the computer room at the other and disappearing into…
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“That’s not fair!”
For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 😀 Story continues from yesterday: “Mum, can I use the computer?” Luke asked when he got home. “Jared’s using it at the moment,” she told him, “his laptop’s playing up.” “That’s not fair,” Luke complained, “Jared’s got his own computer, he should ‘ave looked after it prop’ly.” “He said…
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Finding out why
For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 😀 Story continues from Friday: “Ooh, a hot date!” said Simon Butler who had unfortunately been standing within earshot. His friends laughed. Luke and Joe, who had learned from experience that Butler was best ignored, got onto the bus. They ascended to the top deck and managed to get…
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Clever naughty boy
When reading an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Advances in neuroscience imply that harmful experiments in dogs are unethical, by Jarrod Bailey and Shiranee Pereira, I was reminded of our George. The Open Access article explains that “Functional MRI (fMRI) of fully awake and unrestrained dog ‘volunteers’ has been proven an effective tool to…
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Experimenting on animals is a Wild Goose Chase
New from Honestly Books is Wild Goose Chase by Lavender Laine which is perfect for the teens to adults section of our Vegan Children’s Books page. Lavender Laine, author of What’s good for the goose is not good for the panda, a rhyming story for little children, is a collage artist with a passionate opposition to vivisection.…
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6 Days to the Brighton March
Come to Brighton on the 9th!