<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Testing may kill animals needlessly : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Testing may kill animals needlessly : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-01-08T01:09:02+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Testing may kill animals needlessly]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/57975/1/" /><id>57975</id><summary><![CDATA[Testing may kill animals needlessly]]></summary><issued>2008-04-12T09:11:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-12T09:11:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Each year, American doctors inject more than 3 million doses of Botox to temporarily smooth their patients' wrinkles and frown lines. But before each batch is shipped, the manufacturer puts it through one of the oldest and most controversial animal tests available.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;margin-bottom:-20px'><SCRIPT src="/ads/adsense.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
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<entry><title><![CDATA[Robots Could Reduce Animal Tests]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/50757/1/" /><id>50757</id><summary><![CDATA[Robots Could Reduce Animal Tests]]></summary><issued>2008-02-15T14:33:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-15T14:33:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[US scientists are taking the first step towards testing potentially hazardous chemicals on cells grown in a laboratory, without using live animals. High speed robots would make testing faster, cheaper, and more effective, while leaving animals unharmed.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[200 Animals Rescued From Home]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48534/1/" /><id>48534</id><summary><![CDATA[200 Animals Rescued From Home]]></summary><issued>2008-01-27T08:45:28+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-27T08:45:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An animal protection group on Friday rescued more than 200 animals, including 26 hissing cockroaches and two bearded dragons, from an eastern Texas home.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Illinois Woman Charged With Keeping Hundreds of Dead, Abused Animals on Property]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38584/1/" /><id>38584</id><summary><![CDATA[Illinois Woman Charged With Keeping Hundreds of Dead, Abused Animals on Property]]></summary><issued>2007-10-17T01:33:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-17T01:33:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Lee County woman pleaded not guilty to 10 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty and not caring for her pets, four days after authorities found more than 200 dead animals scattered on her property, stuffed in the refrigerator, strewn across floors and packed into barrels.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[So long lab rats?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48583/1/" /><id>48583</id><summary><![CDATA[So long lab rats?]]></summary><issued>2008-01-27T20:11:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-27T20:11:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[With a European ban looming on animal testing for cosmetics, companies are giving a hard look at high-tech alternatives like the small, rectangular glass chip professor Jonathan Dord**k holds up to the light in his lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Should Animals Be Doing More For The Animal Rights Movement?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/48962/1/" /><id>48962</id><summary><![CDATA[Should Animals Be Doing More For The Animal Rights Movement?]]></summary><issued>2008-01-30T19:22:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-30T19:22:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Panelists discuss whether animals should play a more active role in the fight for their rights by participating in marches or organizing boycotts.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Details of Evolutionary Transition from Fish to Land Animals Revealed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/79574/1/" /><id>79574</id><summary><![CDATA[Details of Evolutionary Transition from Fish to Land Animals Revealed]]></summary><issued>2008-10-15T23:44:40+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-15T23:44:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New research has provided the first detailed look at the internal head skeleton of Tiktaalik roseae, the 375-million-year-old fossil animal that represents an important intermediate step in the evolutionary transition from fish to animals that walked on land.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[7 Animals More Desperate for Sex Than Men]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sex/l/83272/1/" /><id>83272</id><summary><![CDATA[7 Animals More Desperate for Sex Than Men]]></summary><issued>2008-12-01T22:02:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-01T22:02:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Men will do, say, or put up with just about anything to get laid.<br/><br/>The American alligator has to crank-start his mate for closer to four days before sealing the deal.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Animal CSI]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21865/1/" /><id>21865</id><summary><![CDATA[Animal CSI]]></summary><issued>2007-05-30T11:34:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-30T11:34:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Whether it's testing a dog's saliva to see if it mauled a cat or catching a murderer who stepped in pet poo, law enforcement officials are seeing the benefit in applying forensic methods to cases involving animals.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The cruelty behind animal fur coats]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34868/1/" /><id>34868</id><summary><![CDATA[The cruelty behind animal fur coats]]></summary><issued>2007-09-07T04:17:54+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-07T04:17:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Definitely not for the faint-hearted, this video is a sad reality. It shows how skin is removed from animals while still breathing, just to end up as the fur coat in your mom's closet. (Contains strong gory scenes and acts of brutality, you have been warned)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rocks reveal oldest known jellyfish fossils]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/40115/1/" /><id>40115</id><summary><![CDATA[Rocks reveal oldest known jellyfish fossils]]></summary><issued>2007-10-31T06:59:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-31T06:59:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The oldest known fossils of jellyfish have been found in rocks in Utah that are more than 500 million years old. The fossils are an unusual discovery because soft-bodied creatures, such as jellyfish, rarely survive in the fossil record, unlike animals with hard shells or bones.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Animal Artists]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/752/1/" /><id>752</id><summary><![CDATA[Animal Artists]]></summary><issued>2006-09-21T20:51:29+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-21T20:51:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Many animals make great artists. No, I am not talking about Galoot and Meowza, yes they've been called animals, but I am talking about dolphins, elephants, and the like.<br/><br/>&quot; Animals have been painting in some form since at least the early part of the 20th century. More often than not these were publicity stunts, little more than circus-type acts exploiting the animals. In the early 1960s, a keeper at the San Diego Zoo in California, noting an elephant's natural behavior of drawing in the sand with its trunk, included painting among one of her charges' behavioral enrichment program. This amounted to the elephant pushing a large housepainting brush across a canvas much like a big sweep broom.&quot;<br/><br/>Go to the site for the full story and examples of art by real pigs!]]></content></entry></feed>