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Image from NZAVS This month, an excellent animal advocacy group, NZAVS, has been focusing on how rats and mice are exploited for science in New Zealand. They recently sent out the post below about alternatives to animal models. We thought it was so good we wanted to share it too! From NZAVS: This month we’ve […]
Care2 PETITIONS alerted one of our members to the situation described below. Please sign the petition to help keep this poor dog alive. Kim is a sweet little 5-year-old Jack Russell Terrier. She lives with her beloved human, Mr. Rogers, in Ireland, where they enjoy a peaceful life together. Rogers is 85 years old and […]
Image by Nicholas Demetriades from Pixabay Have you seen live crabs, lobsters or other shellfish on sale in your local market, often in deplorable conditions and destined to be boiled alive for someone’s dinner? We have too. One of our members drafted the letter below to Thrifty’s and sent it to their local grocery store. We’ve providing the […]
Image by JL G from Pixabay The article below shows clearly how vulnerable animals are to abuse and cruel treatment beyond experiments themselves in the animal research industry. Article by Francesca Gillett, BBC News Nearly 4,000 beagles are looking for new homes after what is thought to be one of the biggest ever dog rescue efforts in the […]
The information below comes from Citizens for Alternatives to Animal Research and Experimentation. We thank them for their work on this. Last year CAARE exposed senseless experiments on monkeys at Rockefeller University that probe their brains to study how the brain deciphers facial recognition. Through highly invasive experiments, these living sentient individuals are turned into […]
Owen Patterson, a great friend to animals and volunteer for multiple groups, including ADAV, recently passed away at the age of 85. Another important group he volunteered for, The Fur Bearers, recently posted the following in his honour: Owen Patterson, a long-time member, volunteer, and past director of The Fur-Bearers passed away recently in his […]
Cartoon by Graham Harrop One of ADAV’s advisor’s, Maidie Hilmo, PhD., had the letter below published on July 29, 2022 in the Times Colonist E-edition. We are pleased to share it here also. It isn’t enough that the man who had a live pig’s heart transplanted earlier this year died within a few months — […]
Following decades of public outrage and the suffering of hundreds of animals, Air France has announced that it will stop transporting primates for use in research and testing, making it the last major airline to do so. It has been transporting primates from Mauritius, an island off east Africa, for laboratories in the U.S. and […]