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Cheetah-Cub robot learns to walk from the animals
2013-04-30 19:08:50| CNET News.com
A quadruped robot developed at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne has been taught to walk by being fed data based on the movements of a horse. [Read more]
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No oil-spill returnees, but dead animals up
2013-04-30 12:51:22| Chemicals - Topix.net
One month after an Exxon Mobil pipeline ruptured, spilling more than 200,000 gallons of oil into a Mayflower subdivision and a cove of Lake Conway, the numbers of wildlife displaced, injured or killed have significantly risen as the cleanup has increasingly focused on the backwater.
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Ag Gag Laws Really Do Protect Animals, Producers
2013-04-19 23:51:00| National Hog Farmer
Organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Mercy for Animals say they have stopped attempting to take undercover videos on farms in states that have laws that make this practice illegal. These laws, referred to as ag gag laws, have already gone into effect in states such as Iowa and Utah. Several other states are in the process of working to enact similar legislation. Meanwhile, the topic of ag gag laws is getting a lot of media attention, and the opinions about the meritsor lack thereofof preventing undercover videos from being taken on farms differ widely. As Ive read blog posts finding fault with these laws coming from within the agricultural community, I keep coming back to what I heard and saw when I attended a Mercy for Animals (MFA) press conference last summer where an on-farm video was revealed. National Hog Farmer Blog read more
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Gagging the First Amendment over animals
2013-04-19 16:15:22| Agriculture - Topix.net
Imagine Upton Sinclair with an iPhone. Sinclair went undercover in 1904 to document squalid conditions in Chicago's meatpacking plants, leading to his muckraking novel The Jungle.
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European Commission seeks EMAs advice on antibiotic use in animals
2013-04-17 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has agreed to provide advice regarding the impact of antibiotic use in animals on public health and animal health, in response to a request by the European Commission.
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