An 11 minute snippet featuring Alka Chandna- the Vice President of Laboratory Experimentation Cases for animal rights activist organization PETA. In this video, she discloses the abuse, neglect, and torture that animals such as monkeys are subjected to in laboratories at the University of Michigan to members of the Michigan Animal Rights Society. She concludes with discussing the unsanitary conditions within UofM laboratories.
A lecture where Animal Liberation Front leader Peter Young describes his evolution into an animal-rights activists and later prosecution and incarceration by the federal government for freeing animals from fur farms. The lecture was given to student members of the Michigan Animal Rights Society and features a q&a at the near the 45 minute mark.
Presentation slides used during a meeting on March 25th, 2011 by the Michigan Animal Rights Society- a student organization at the University of Michigan for animal rights activists. The slides provide an ethical, scientific, and philosophical exploration of applying action with personal ethics through a refusal to consume food products that come from animals. Moreover, the slides focus on the environmental benefits of veganism and how the physical and emotional pain that animals endure has many similarities to human emotions.
A draft of an essay from former University of Michigan Law Professor and animal welfare advocate Joseph Vining. In this essay dated March 9th, 2005, Joseph Vining makes comparisons between the realms of corporate and animal law-reflecting on how corporate law is considered a more respectable field although animal law concerns sentient beings.
A poster by the Michigan Ethics Bowl advertising a debate between PETA VP Bruce Friedrich and the Michigan Ethics Bowl Team on whether or not eating meat is ethical.
A poster from the Michigan Animal Rights Society advertising a lecture where American Animal Rights activist Peter Young describes his evolution into an animal-rights activists and his later prosecution for freeing animals from fur farms.
The article reports on the formation of the Michigan Society for Medical Research at the University of Michigan, a group advocating for the continued use of animals in scientific research amid growing opposition from animal-welfare organizations and pending federal legislation. It highlights statements from Dr. Bennett Cohen and others arguing that animal research is essential, warning that proposed regulations would increase costs and hinder scientific progress.
