Food Safety Risks Associated With U.S. Horse Slaughter,
2012
WellBeing International
Food Safety Risks Associated With U.S. Horse Slaughter
Agribusiness Reports
Meat originating from U.S. horses may contain residues from substances banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Union for use in animals intended for consumption. Phenylbutazone, for example, is commonly administered to U.S. horses and has been associated with life-threatening reactions in humans. Requiring a thorough drug history for each U.S. horse intended for human consumption may help circumvent human health risks.
A Blood Sport For The Rich And Famous?,
2012
Animal Studies Repository
A Blood Sport For The Rich And Famous?, Harold Herzog
Competitive Animal Racing Collection
A new report finds horse racing carnage is getting worse.
Whip Use By Jockeys In A Sample Of Australian Thoroughbred Races—An Observational Study,
2012
University of Sydney
Whip Use By Jockeys In A Sample Of Australian Thoroughbred Races—An Observational Study, Paul D. Mcgreevy, Robert A. Corken, Hannah Salvin, Celeste M. Black
Competitive Animal Racing Collection
The use of whips by jockeys is an issue. The current study viewed opportunistic high-speed footage of 15 race finishes frame-by-frame to examine the outcomes of arm and wrist actions (n = 350) on 40 horses viewed from the left of the field. Any actions fully or partially obscured by infrastructure or other horses were removed from the database, leaving a total of 104 non-contact sweeps and 134 strikes. For all instances of arm actions that resulted in fully visible whip strikes behind the saddle (n = 109), the outcomes noted were area struck, percentage of unpadded section making contact, …
Horse Racing: Cruelties We Condone And Cruelties We Condemn,
2012
Animal Studies Repository
Horse Racing: Cruelties We Condone And Cruelties We Condemn, Harold Herzog
Competitive Animal Racing Collection
Why the deaths of HBO's "Luck" horses were predictable.
Chimpanzee Personhood: Supporting Scientific Documentation,
2012
The Humane Society of the United States
Chimpanzee Personhood: Supporting Scientific Documentation, Jonathan Balcombe
Sentience Collection
The aim of this document is to provide scientific support for granting chimpanzees and bonobos the legal status of persons. The studies summarized here have been selected because they show these species to have levels of awareness, cognition, emotionality and virtue that rivals that of their hominid cousins, Homo sapiens. Chimps, like other great apes, have long-term relationships, grieve the loss of a loved-one, can solve complex puzzles, display a sense of justice, and can learn hundreds of signs and put them together in logical sentences.
Tool Use In Fishes,
2012
Macquarie University
Tool Use In Fishes, Culum Brown
Sentience Collection
Tool use was once considered the sole domain of humans. Over the last 40 years, however, it has become apparent that tool use may be widespread across the animal kingdom. Pioneering studies in primates have shaped the way we think about tool use in animals, but have also lead to a bias both in terms of our expectations about which animals should be capable of using tools and the working definition of tool use. Here I briefly examine tool use in terrestrial animals and consider the constraints of the current working definition of tool use in fishes. Fishes lack grasping …
The Ban On The Use Of Chimpanzees In Biomedical Research And Testing In The Uk Should Be Made Permanent And Legally Binding,
2012
British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
The Ban On The Use Of Chimpanzees In Biomedical Research And Testing In The Uk Should Be Made Permanent And Legally Binding, Michelle Thew, Jarrod Bailey, Michael Balls, Michelle Hudson
Laboratory Experiments Collection
The Coalition Government is currently considering how to transpose Directive 2010/63/EU on animal experimentation into UK law. The Directive bans the use of Great Apes in laboratories, but EU Member States can seek (now or, more likely, at some time in the future) a derogation from the Commission to permit such use, where this is considered essential for the preservation of the species in question or in relation to an unexpected outbreak of a life-threatening or debilitating clinical condition in human beings. Currently, the policy of the Government is not to approve any experiments on Great Apes, but it is …
The Welfare Of Animals In The Foie Gras Industry,
2012
WellBeing International
The Welfare Of Animals In The Foie Gras Industry
Agribusiness Reports
The production of pâté de foie gras involves force-feeding ducks and geese by placing a long tube down the birds’ esophagi and pumping an unnatural quantity of food directly into their stomachs. Force-feeding induces hepatic lipidosis and causes the birds’ livers to become diseased and enlarged. Substantial scientific evidence suggests that force-feeding can cause pain and injury from feeding tube insertion, fear and stress during capture and handling, gait abnormality due to distended livers, pathologies in liver function, and increased mortality. Force-feeding birds to produce foie gras is detrimental to their welfare.
Isotopic Niche Differentiation Among Mammals From A Rainforest In Peninsular Malaysia,
2012
University of Florida
Isotopic Niche Differentiation Among Mammals From A Rainforest In Peninsular Malaysia, Kae Kawanishi, Song Horng Neo Liang, Chris T. Darimont, Thomas E. Reimchen, Melvin E. Sunquist
Biochemistry Collection
We performed stable isotope analysis on eight mammalian species: pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina), long-tailed macaque (M. fascicularis), dusky leaf monkey (Trachypithecus obscurus), brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus macrourus), wild boar (Sus scrofa), lesser mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus), greater mouse-deer (T. napu), and barking deer (Muntiacus muntjac), to test the hypothesis that the differences in diet and habitat types among species, guilds and foraging strategies are reflected in the δ15N and δ13C signatures of their tissues. Whereas the isotopic ratios differed among taxa, the four major isotopic groups observed were: mouse-deer species, primate species, brush-tailed porcupine, and wild boar. The …
Bias During The Evaluation Of Animal Studies,
2012
Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
Bias During The Evaluation Of Animal Studies, Andrew Knight
Morality and Ethics of Animal Experimentation Collection
My recent book entitled The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments seeks to answer a key question within animal ethics, namely: is animal experimentation ethically justifiable? Or, more precisely, is it justifiable within the utilitarian cost:benefit framework that fundamentally underpins most regulations governing animal experimentation? To answer this question I reviewed more than 500 scientific publications describing animal studies, animal welfare impacts, and alternative research, toxicity testing and educational methodologies. To minimise bias I focused primarily on large-scale systematic reviews that had examined the human clinical and toxicological utility of animal studies. Despite this, Dr. Susanne Prankel recently reviewed my …
Whaling: Don’T Trade The Moratorium Away,
2012
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
Whaling: Don’T Trade The Moratorium Away, Mark Peter Simmonds, Sue Fisher
Conservation Collection
In their proposal to allocate ‘whale shares’ to both whalers and conservationists as an alternative to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling, Christopher Costello and colleagues overlook several factors (Nature 481, 139–140; 2012).
Complex Patterns Of Male Alliance Formation In A Dolphin Social Network,
2012
Macquarie University
Complex Patterns Of Male Alliance Formation In A Dolphin Social Network, Joanna Wiszniewski, Culum Brown, Luciana M. Möller
Sentience Collection
The formation and maintenance of alliances is regarded as one of the most socially complex male mating strategies in mammals. The prevalence and complexity of these cooperative relationships, however, varies considerably among species as well as within and between populations living in different ecological and social environments. We assessed patterns of alliance formation for Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops aduncus, in Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia, to investigate the stability of these alliances, the structure of associations, as well as variation in schooling patterns among males. Our results showed that association patterns among males within this population showed considerable variability. …
Superglue Is Not Super: An Assessment Of Superglue For Suturing Tag Incisions In A Cultured Marine Fish,
2012
Macquarie University
Superglue Is Not Super: An Assessment Of Superglue For Suturing Tag Incisions In A Cultured Marine Fish, Vincent Raoult, Culum Brown, Jane E. Williamson
Aquaculture Collection
No abstract provided.
Natural Healers: The Four Pillars Of Medicine And How Animals Use Them,
2012
Animal Studies Repository
Natural Healers: The Four Pillars Of Medicine And How Animals Use Them, Harold Herzog
'Animals and Us' Blog Posts
Is meat-eating the reason pet-owners get sicker than their dogs?
Arkansas Animal Science Department Report 2011,
2012
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Arkansas Animal Science Department Report 2011, David L. Kreider
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Series
No abstract provided.
Animals On The Borderline: The Horse Slaughter Controversy,
2012
Animal Studies Repository
Animals On The Borderline: The Horse Slaughter Controversy, Harold Herzog, Jenny Vermilya
Slaughter and Slaughtering Practices Collection
Are horses pets, products, or both?
Your Worst Animal Nightmare,
2012
Animal Studies Repository
Your Worst Animal Nightmare, Harold Herzog
'Animals and Us' Blog Posts
Monster snakes are headed your way...
An Hsi Report: Industrial Farm Animal Production And Livestock Associated Mrsa (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus),
2012
WellBeing International
An Hsi Report: Industrial Farm Animal Production And Livestock Associated Mrsa (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus), Humane Society International
HSI REPORTS
Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of bacterial infection and is increasingly found to be resistant to antibiotic therapy. A newly described type of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus carried by farm animals, Livestock Associated MRSA (LA-MRSA), is now causing infections in humans with and without direct livestock contact. A reduction in the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in feed would likely reduce the capacity of industrial animal agriculture to continue to create, disseminate, and perpetuate a large reservoir of LA-MRSA on a global scale, but more fundamental changes in the way animals are raised for food may be necessary forestall a …
Puppy Buyer Complaints: A Five-Year Summary, 2007‐2011,
2012
WellBeing International
Puppy Buyer Complaints: A Five-Year Summary, 2007‐2011, The Humane Society Of The United States
PUPPY MILL REPORTS
The Humane Society of the United States receives complaints about sick puppies on a daily basis. Over a five-year period (2007-2011), our puppy mills campaign received 2,479 puppy buyer complaints. The complaint came to The HSUS via our website complaint form (www.humanesociety.org/puppycomplaint), by email, and through our puppy mills tip line. Buyers complained about sick puppies sold by a variety of sources, including pet stores, breeders (both in person and online), or middleman dealers (sometimes known as brokers). Unsatisfied buyers contact The HSUS for many reasons; some are seeking information about how to pursue their consumer complaint, others …
The Problem Of Unlicensed Puppy Mills,
2012
WellBeing International
The Problem Of Unlicensed Puppy Mills, The Humane Society Of The United States
PUPPY MILL REPORTS
Currently the United States Department of Agriculture does not license or inspect large-scale puppy producers who sell puppies over the Internet or directly to the public. Many of these unlicensed facilities sell puppies sight-unseen to unsuspecting buyers who assume they are purchasing from a small family breeder. Hundreds of these “direct” sellers have taken advantage of the pre-Internet language of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) regulations (otherwise known as the “retail pet stores loophole”) to operate without any federal oversight or inspections. As a result, an increasing number of large-scale unlicensed breeders are not monitored for their animals’ overall health …
