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An End to Animal Testing?

February 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments

An article published by the Associated Press, dated February 14th, indicates there may be an end in sight to live animal testing of potentially toxic chemicals and products as it relates to the safety of human usage of these chemicals.
The Environmental Protection Agency, the National Toxicology Program and the National Institutes of Health have signed [...]

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Tags: Animal Rights · Science · Vegan News

Cloned Meat has been Approved by the FDA

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

The FDA approved the cloning of cattle, swine, and goats for human consumption on Tuesday.
“Extensive evaluation of the available data has not identified any subtle hazards that might indicate food-consumption risks in healthy clones of cattle, swine, or goats,” the 968-page “final risk assessment” concluded.
“Thus, edible products from healthy clones that meet existing requirements [...]

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Eat Green - Literally and Figuratively

November 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, once you tell someone you’re doing something a little out of ordinary they tend to challenge you. Yesterday we were chatting with our cousins who think we are insane for restricting our diet so severely. Tom wanted to know why, exactly, we were doing this, but somehow the [...]

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Tags: Green · Science · Vegan Life