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POPSDoctors to Bring Lawsuit Against Medical Schools for Animal Abuse “Simulation is not just an alternative but better training" as well as "an opportunity to teach medical students about compassion," said Wasserman. Wasserman, who also happens to have a law degree, points out that while animals used in research are exempt from state law, it does not exempt animals who are used in surgery or who are used for students to practice on. Animals, such as pigs and gerbils, are used to teach students surgical, suturing and intubation techniques, among other things. For some reason, these schools are sticking with tradition instead of joining the majority of accredited medical school programs in the use of alternatives, while clutching the thin argument that they’re following applicable laws and guidelines. A spokesman for the state attorney's office said they received the request for an investigation and will determine what to do after they review it. " What great news!
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POPSMcDonald's NOT Loving It! #foodlies #busted #health via @HoustonPress Anyone really knows the truth?? Is the FAT causing burgers to last 11 months or more in a dark closet jacket without decomposition? Or is it the preservatives and food additives? In Singapore, Macdonald's TV Ads are saying their food has no trans-fat. HELLO, FRIED vege oil is trans-fat, the semi-solid stuff that clogs up heart arteries and blood vessels! (Vege oil in its natural unheated state isn't.) The PCRM is doing a GREAT job to get the word out!
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POPSIT'S NOT MCDONALDS FAULT
The ad features a woman crying while standing over a man’s body in a morgue. The man holds a half-eaten hamburger in one hand. At the end of the commercial, a McDonald’s arch appears above his feet, followed by the slogan “i was lovin’ it.” An announcer closes with “High cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it vegetarian.” PCRM said that “a PCRM survey shows that Washington has more McDonald’s, Burger King, and KFC outlets per square mile than eight other cities with similar population sizes.” According to Susan Levin, PCRM’s nutrition education director, “A moratorium on new fast-food restaurants could be a critically important step toward fighting this epidemic.” Let’s tackle the word “vegetarian” first, which appears in the PCRM commercial as the suggested healthy alternative. I know it sounds awfully healthy, but the truth is that one can be a vegetarian and spend his or her days feasting on cheese, eggs, white bread, and pasta with butter. The noti
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POPSEnd the Use of Live Pigs for Training at Baystate Medical Center The study Dying to Learn: Exposing the Supply of Dogs and Cats to Higher Education also found that both medical and veterinary students can learn just as well through alternative teaching methods that can include hands on training at shelters for vet students and simulators for medical students. Dying to Learn site: http://www.dyingtolearn.org/cruella.html
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POPSPETA's dirty secrets: 7 things you didn't know about PETA
More: regularly target children as young as six years old with anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda, often waiting outside their schools to intercept them as they walk to and from class-without notifying parents.… PETA…fund the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a deceptive animal rights group that promotes itself as an unbiased source of medical and nutritional information… PETA…billboards taunt Christians with the message that hogs "died for their sins."…And its infamous "Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign crassly compares the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide with farm animals. PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, because they support animal-based research that might uncover cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases…president Ingrid Newkirk has said that "even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it."
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POPSWhite House Objects to Poster That Invokes Obama Children The majority of schools in the National School Lunch Program (which includes more than 94,000 public schools) do not offer vegetarian or vegan options, despite the fact that the American Medical Association passed a unanimous resolution in 2007 recommending that these options be made available. PCRM President Neal Barnard, a nutrition researcher, says he thinks that objection to the poster comes solely from the president's "handlers" and not from the first family itself. He says: "I was not about to pull the ads. They're important, and they're good, and they raise the issue, speaking for kids in America. And I'm not about to have them shut me up because they're nervous."
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POPSU of M Listens! Ends Use of Dogs in ATLS Class! If you doubt that each of us has the power to stop suffering, look to this campaign. Thousands of people responded to this campaign with polite pleas to U of M to stop this cruel practice, and they listened. Good for them! Good for us! And most important of all, good for the dogs.
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POPSUnited Nations Public Policy!!! Dum dee dum dummmmmmm!!!!
Blamed for about one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases, meat production produces the ever-popular ;) methane gas from the flatulence of cattle–something these vegetarians like to say is much worse for the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Aren’t you merely speculating at best putting forth such bold statements about meat and global warming without any real evidence that makes your point? How can a group like the United Nations stand behind such an extreme position when the foundation for it is so incredibly suspect? Dr. Pachauri spoke at an event held by an animal rights group called Compassion in World Farming which has called on the people of Great Britain to cut their meat consumption in half to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by even more than if they cut their driving in half. In fact, they are pushing for governments around the world to mandate a reduction of meat consumption by upwards of 60 percent by the year 2020. Well, yippee freakin’ skippy!
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