The care and treatment of animals in research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh is in full compliance with the Animal Welfare Act and U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations, the university said this week. Pitt issued a news release Thursday on the results of an unannounced USDA inspection from Feb. 28 through March 3 that was in response to a 17-page complaint from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Category: Animal Rights
A Dead Kangaroo, a Bleeding Pig: Hollywood’s Top Animal Training Firm …
“Bloody, raw lesions” and overgrown hooves are alleged in a PETA complaint to have plagued a pig from ‘College Road Trip.’ A complaint filed with the USDA alleges that scores of acting animals were neglected or mistreated by Birds & Animals Unlimited .
The Cory Booker Dilemma for Progressive Animal Activists
During the 2016 Democratic primary, I was very much a Bernie Sanders partisan. The candidate was so much on my mind, that when I was writing my biography of Ronnie Lee, founder of the Animal Liberation Front, my subject emailed me on more than one occasion to say I’d accidentally substituted his name with that of the Vermont senator’s in the manuscript draft! Now, there was a period during the primary in which it seemed that the animal activist group Direct Action Everywhere was only protesting at Sanders’ rallies.