Modern agriculture’s factory farm system often involves cruelty to animals. The factory farms focus on maximum output with minimum input. As a result, animals are often confined to small spaces, fed drugs to fatten them up, transported in terrible conditions and genetically altered. Chickens raised for their flesh, or “broilers,” are kept in overcrowded sheds […]
The University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine data shows that the latest canine flu (H3N2) has infected cats. A group of cats at a Northwest Indiana shelter tested positive for H3N2 canine influenza virus. The cats tested had shown unusual signs of respiratory disease. Dogs in the shelter had the virus at the same […]
The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has reported on a study in their September 1, 2012 issue that found a single dose of carboplatin, a chemotherapy drug, given subcutaneously immediately after surgery has resulted in similar survival times and effects as traditional chemotherapy protocols for Osteosarcoma (OSA – bone cancer). With traditional […]
