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Breakable News Special Report

January 22, 2021 by Stephen AltschulerLeave a Comment

Breakable News breaks with a first-ever interview with a murder hornet
(editor’s note: Not suitable for children and other living things)
@ breakablenews.substack.com

Filed Under: Animal Rights, Donald TrumpTagged With: Breakable News, murder hornets

I awake this morning with a deep anger…

December 23, 2020 by Stephen Altschuler7 Comments

…toward Donald Trump and these inhumane and immoral pardons he feels justified to impart like a fake monarch surveying his realm. His pardon of four thugs from Blackwater who murdered 14 completely innocent Iraqis, including men, women and children, during the invasion was particularly deplorable. One was in jail for first degree murder and life, the other three were serving 30 year sentences. Trump released them with one swirl of his sloppy signature, slapping the face of an entire nation who still mourns.

Beyond anger, I feel a deep embarrassment at the actions of this immoral so-called human being, Donald Trump. I am embarrassed to be connected with him as an American, embarrassed that I’ve lived here under his rule during these last four years, embarrassed to be connected, even remotely, with those that voted for him and those in Congress who enabled his reign of his attempt to dismantle our democracy. I am embarrassed that some 74 million people voted for this charlatan. I am embarrassed that a significant number of those voters still think he was not legally elected. I am embarrassed that though Trump lost, Republicans gained seats in the House, and held their majority, so far, in the Senate.

A better word still, is distraught. I am distraught that over 315,000 people have died due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and there are still a significant number of Republicans who [Read more…] about I awake this morning with a deep anger…

Filed Under: Animal Rights, democracy, Donald Trump, Human nature, mindfulness

Animal Rights: Let Lab Animals Free

December 22, 2020 by Stephen Altschuler2 Comments

Let Lab Animals Free

by

Stephen Altschuler

A song written in the 1980s and, in many ways, still applicable today

 

In the primate laboratories

I can tell you many stories

of thousands of baby chimpanzees

who are maimed and mutilated, tortured and castrated

and taken from their mother’s arms.

 

Chorus

They’ve got no voices, they’ve got no names

They make no charges, they lay no blame,

yet their hearts feel suffering just the same.

Let lab animals free, if not you and me, who else will set lab

animals free.

 

In the name of research and science

with tax money and government compliance

with an arrogant, heartless defiance,

Monkeys are maimed and mutilated, tortured and castrated

and taken from their mother’s arms.

 

Primate studies get repeated,

no anesthesia, surgically mis-treated.

Is this blood bath really needed?

As they’re maimed and mutilated, tortured and castrated

and taken from their mother’s arms.

 

Wild monkeys bound with steel and leather,

trapped in the tropics, shipped to northern weather,

screams of anguish, like slaves together.

for they’re maimed and mutilated, tortured and castrated

and taken from their mother’s arms.

 

From today’s Guardian:

In recent years the US government has started to phase out the use of primates in research, with the National Institutes of Health making a landmark decision in 2015 to retire all chimpanzees used in biomedical studies. Critics of the practice argue it is immoral and cruel to subject highly intelligent, social creatures so similar to humans to such conditions.

However, other labs continue to use monkeys in large numbers – a record 74,000 were used in experiments in 2017 – with scientists claiming they are far better than other animals, such as mice, for studying diseases that also afflict humans.

Even when monkeys are retired from research purposes, the task of rehoming them in appropriate sanctuaries still proves haphazard.

“What tragic afterthoughts these lives were,” said Mike Ryan, spokesman for Rise for Animals, the group that obtained the freedom of information documents on the Ames primate deaths. “Nasa has many strengths, but when it comes to animal welfare practices, they’re obsolete.”

Filed Under: Animal Rights, Human nature, mindfulnessTagged With: Animal rights, NASA

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