The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered an animal rights pressure group to stop making «alarmist» and «unsubstantiated» claims about the risks of eating meat, the BBC reported on Thursday. (dairyreporter.com)
► Last Friday's decision by the NIH to «phase out controversial monkey experiments at one of its labs in Poolesville, Maryland... followed an aggressive yearlong campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,» but, as David Grimm wrote on Monday at ScienceInsider, «financial straits — not animal rights pressures — led to the decision. (sciencemag.org)
Better than many churchmen, he understood that human rights pressures on the Soviet Union served the broader cause of freedom and gave a measure of protection to human rights activists and dissidents. (firstthings.com)