More on unveiling the links between animal cognition and animal rights
The Agricultural Yielding by Cows
Group Vivisection: Brittany Jette, Rachael Zmich, Group Report 3 Orland, Barbara. “Turbo-Cows: Producing a Competitive Animal in the Nineteenth and EarlyTwentieth Centuries.” Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History, Routledge, 2004, pp. 167–184. Dr. Barbara Orland is a historian of science and technology and professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Based on her… Read more The Agricultural Yielding by Cows
“Blut und Boden”
Saraiva, Tiago. “Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism.” MIT Press Scholarship, The MIT Press, 10 May 2017, mitpress.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035033.001.0001/upso-9780262035033. About the Author: Tiago Saraiva is an assistant professor at Drexel University, with a PhD in the History of Science from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He obtained his Bachelors of Science in Materials… Read more “Blut und Boden”
AN ANALYSIS OF THE USAGE OF MICE IN ANIMAL RESEARCH
Written by: Achu Balasubramanian, Saniya Syeda, Mackenzie Warren, Claire Lungwitz Rader, Karen Ann. “Why Mice?” Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955, Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 1–24. Compared to: DeGrazia, David. Animal Rights: a Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2002. The author of Making Mice, Dr. Karen Rader, is a historian who… Read more AN ANALYSIS OF THE USAGE OF MICE IN ANIMAL RESEARCH
The Modernization of Cuban Agriculture and Politics
Citation: Funes Monzote, Reinaldo. (2016). The Rise and Fall of Dairy Cows in Socialist Cuba. Global Environment. 9. 342-375. 10.3197/ge.2016.090203. In The Rise and Fall of Dairy Cows in Socialist Cuba, a comprehensive historical account of the environmental history of Cuba and the shift in the agricultural industry from cattle raising for meat consumption… Read more The Modernization of Cuban Agriculture and Politics
Primates in Labs: Recent Article Suggestion For Friday
Description: This article talks about the record high number of primates being used in labs in the United States and the challenges these labs are now starting to face due to less support from the public and organizations that once enabled this research. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6415/630
Thousands of Greyhounds in Search for New Homes
This article is about GreyHounds in Florida needing new homes after racing has been banned completely by 2020. This relates to current animal activism and shows that animal rights are progressing during our time. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/us/greyhound-racing-florida-adoption.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FAnimals&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection
Nominated Reading: “Behind closed doors: A hidden legacy of animal experimentation”
Nominated reading by Rights Group. Chan, Calvin. “Behind Closed Doors: A Hidden Legacy of Animal Experimentation.” The Gateway, University of Alberta, 26 Oct. 2018, www.thegatewayonline.ca/2018/10/behind-closed-doors-a-hidden-legacy-of-animal-experimentation/. This article discusses the implementation of animal experimentation at the University of Alberta. Our group has nominated this article because the piece interviews people, including scientists and students, whose beliefs… Read more Nominated Reading: “Behind closed doors: A hidden legacy of animal experimentation”
More on the global wildlife trade -Economics & Evolutionary Biology
Zoos: Educational or Destructive.
Group Report 1: Brittany Jette, Giahuy Lenguyen, Kaustubh Pandit, Rachael Zmich Parker, Ian. “Killing Animals at the Zoo.” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2017, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/16/killing-animals-at-the-zoo. Ian Parker contributed to his first article at the The New Yorker in 1994 and his first solo piece in 2000. He has been a… Read more Zoos: Educational or Destructive.