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In Defense of Animals founder Elliot Katz dies at 86

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Animal rights movement pioneer             SAN RAFAEL,  California–– In Defense of Animals founder Elliot Katz,  DVM,  “died peacefully on March 24th at the age of 86,”  the organization announced via Facebook on April 9,  2021,  after word of Katz’s death had percolated through the animal advocacy community for several days. “Dr. Katz was a trailblazer […]

Enforcing anti-cruelty laws proves harder than passing them

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Who enforces “victories” won by the Humane Society of the United States?  Stop Animal Exploitation Now, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, & the Humane Farming Association are trying.             SALT LAKE CITY,  LEXINGTON,  BOSTON––Some animal advocacy organizations with multi-million-dollar-a-year-plus incomes attract donors by the hundreds of thousands through winning passage of laws that they then […]

Why 37 chimps “retired” by NIH in 2013 are still not in sanctuaries

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Humane Society of the U.S. sues National Institutes of Health over outcome of “CHIMP Act” claimed as HSUS “victory”          ALAMOGORDO,  New Mexico;  SHREVEPORT,  Louisiana;  BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––“Nestled in the pines near Keithville,”  17 miles south of Shreveport,  Louisiana,  the 200-acre Chimp Haven sanctuary “even has 11 new residents as part of a $20 million […]

How does anyone run a monkey through a washing machine by accident?

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Technicians at Oregon Health Sciences University,  Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories,  Harvard,  & Bristol-Myers Squibb have managed to do it HILLSBORO,  Oregon––An Oregon Health Sciences University internal investigation into the deaths of two rhesus macaques who were killed on August 13,  2020 when their cage was run through a cage-washing machine with the monkeys still inside […]

Geoffrey Deckers & Marion Bienes brought animal rights to the Netherlands

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Holocaust survivor Bienes inspired organization builder Deckers Award founded in Deckers’ name––see Comments,  below. Geoffrey Deckers,  51,  co-founder of the Dutch animal advocacy organization Een Dier Een Vriend [An Animal, A Friend],   died suddenly on June 29,  2020. Deckers suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20,  2017,  but appeared to have made a full recovery. As […]

HSUS-backed Project Chimps drops lawsuit vs. whistleblowers

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Defamation case settled,  defendants vow to press on for sanctuary improvements             BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––In fewer than 20 terse words,  the Project Chimps sanctuary defamation lawsuit against former chimpanzee caregivers and whistleblowers Crystal Alba and Lindsay Vanderhooght ended on August 14,  2020: “Plaintiff Project Chimps Inc.,”  said the legal paperwork,  filed in the U.S. District […]

Will “monkey shortage” due to COVID-19 bring new research methods?

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Researchers scrape the bottom of the barrel DAVIS, California––Will a purported national monkey shortage force COVID-19 researchers to develop new non-animal testing methods? Or is the alleged monkey shortage really just a ploy by the seven National Primate Research Centers to perpetuate their own existence,  taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to win more federal […]

Wildlife Waystation closure: where are the animals now?

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32 chimps still need homes             SYLMAR, California––32 chimpanzees are the last residents of the former Wildlife Waystation sanctuary in Little Tujunga Canyon,  east of Glendale and Los Angeles. A year after Wildlife Waystation closed,  on August 13,  2019,  by order of the California Department of Fish & Wildlife,  finding the funds to rehome the […]

Ape learning experiments? When will humans ever learn?

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Whether chimps can talk is much less perplexing than whether humans can care for them adequately after research use BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––Few people visit Blue Ridge,  Georgia,  population fewer than 1,500 humans,  plus 78 chimpanzees retired from biomedical research use to the Project Chimps sanctuary. Quality of care issues have in 2020 emerged as a […]

Why has Project Chimps gone ape$#!T over ex-staff complaints?

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Humane Society of the U.S. affiliate moves to enforce “ag-gag” against whistleblowers             BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––Former Project Chimps staff members Crystal Alba and Lindsay Vanderhoogt,  as well as their criticisms of the north Georgia sanctuary for chimpanzees formerly used in laboratories,  might still be almost unknown to the world,  except that Project Chimps recently sued […]