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Recent Rescues
Welcome to Animal Place sanctuary’s most recent news and rescue stories. To find previous stories, please click on the “Archive” button to your left.
California: Stop the selling of animals in parking lots
June 25, 2009 - In California, animals can legally be sold in parking lots and alongside the road. Animals are often exposed to the elements, left without proper shelter, food and water, and sold in unsanitary conditions. Animals are rarely vet-checked and may pose a health risk to both humans and other animals.
Farmacology: Antibiotic resistance
June 18, 2009 - A very provocative article in the most recent edition of Johns Hopkins Magazine entitled "Farmacology".
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On research and our own complicity
june 9, 2009 - I'm sure many of you have already read Daniel Engbar's Slate.com 5-part series on animal research and the dog that started the push to change how study animals are treated.
Sanctuary Notes: Etta and Me
May 12, 2009 - Etta was rescued from a live-market slaughterhouse a year ago. She arrived sick, emaciated and afraid of people. During the first months, she needed extensive medical care to help her gain weight and clear all infections. Her true personality emerged, and she is now a very outgoing sheep with a personality that steals hearts, including mine.
Swine Flu
Apr 30, 2009 - Industrial agriculture wreaks havoc upon the environment, mercilessly slaughters 50 billion animals worldwide each year, and inflicts numerous health problems upon consumers of its products. Factory farming also has a dubious distinction of being a facilitator for the mutation of viruses, possibly including the current "swine" flu virus.
