tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65218288438141025612024-03-05T02:21:33.076-08:00They are Not OursI would die for my beliefs, I will fight for their rightsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-79152898923721767992019-01-20T17:05:00.001-08:002019-01-20T17:05:41.716-08:00Meat and Dairy Consumption Are Violently Destroying Earth's Wildlife<a href="https://freefromharm.org/agriculture-environment/meat-dairy-wildlife/">Meat and Dairy Consumption Are Violently Destroying Earth's Wildlife</a>: It's time for the world to wake up to the incomparable devastation of meat and dairy consumption on wildlife animals.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-38585837380548327052015-06-28T00:12:00.001-07:002015-06-28T00:12:12.348-07:00The Dog Factory - a Shocking BBC Documentary<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ChAonBhGpqc" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-43845401344606277012015-02-05T19:11:00.003-08:002015-02-05T19:11:55.160-08:00I am you, only different.<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #515151; direction: ltr; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4375; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">
<span style="line-height: 1.4375;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Borrowed from PETA....</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375;">Human beings create temporary and arbitrary boundaries to exclude beings who aren’t like them. Human beings have justified wars, slavery, sexual violence, and military conquests through the mistaken belief that those who are “different” do not experience suffering and are not worthy of moral consideration.</span></div>
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These boundaries change throughout history, and we’re horrified now to recall the abuse inflicted on others once classified as outsiders: the extermination of Jewish people by the Nazis, the enslavement of African people by American plantation owners, and the slaughter of Christian people for entertainment by Roman centurions. Laws now forbid discrimination based on gender, race, religion, ability, age, and sexual orientation. Yet just a century ago, human beings who were seen as different by those with power faced torture, exploitation, and death.</div>
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Sometimes those in power claimed that juvenile or dark-skinned human beings couldn’t feel pain. Sometimes the powerful claimed that their superiority was granted by God. Our society no longer believes that any human being has the right to rape, torture, or enslave another human being for any reason. We accept that all human beings share a fundamental value and celebrate our differences.</div>
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<a class="fbx-link fbx-instance" href="http://www.peta.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Theirry-Gorilla-holding.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d548f; display: block; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Thierry holding happy baby gorilla" class="wp-image-509037 size-full" height="685" src="http://www.peta.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Theirry-Gorilla-holding.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="1024" /></a><span class="peta-media-credit" style="bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.5625em; line-height: 1.25; right: 0px; text-align: right;"><span class="peta-credit" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://weanimals.org/gallery.php?id=81#ph1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d548f; display: inline; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">© Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals</a></span></span></div>
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Ethical</h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.</em></div>
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We are taught the Golden Rule as young children, and all major religions teach principles of nonviolence and kindness. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Ethical treatment—the Golden Rule—must be extended to <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">all</em> living beings: reptiles, mammals, fish, insects, birds, amphibians, and crustaceans.</div>
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<a class="fbx-link fbx-instance" href="http://www.peta.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Monkey-reaching-out-from-her-cage.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d548f; display: block; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Monkey reaching out from her cage" class="size-full wp-image-509048" height="685" src="http://www.peta.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Monkey-reaching-out-from-her-cage.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="1024" /></a><span class="peta-media-credit" style="bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.5625em; line-height: 1.25; right: 0px; text-align: right;"><span class="peta-credit" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://weanimals.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d548f; display: inline; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">© Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals</a></span></span></div>
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Would we imprison our children in cages too small for them to move? Would we violate our sisters and steal their babies? Would we deliberately infect our friends with diseases and leave them untreated? Of course not—so why would we do the same to other beings? We must abandon the archaic and incorrect boundary of “human,” which we use to justify the ongoing massacre of <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">billions</em> of beings.</div>
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More than a century ago, Charles Darwin showed that <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">all</em> beings had the same common ancestor. All beings share the desire to <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">live</em>. We all feel pain, joy, grief, and pleasure. We all have worth.</div>
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Treatment</h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.</em></div>
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All beings desire freedom to live a natural life, according to their inherent desires and instincts. While the lives of all beings necessarily involve some amount of suffering, human beings must stop <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">deliberately</em> inflicting suffering on all beings for our own selfish desires. We lose nothing in replacing a cheeseburger with a veggie burger or a leather purse with a fabric one. But beings we exploit lose their <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">lives</em> just for our fleeting fancy.</div>
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We are taught from a young age to discriminate among beings. We are fooled into eating the flesh of some beings, ignoring the cries of hunted beings, and cuddling with furry baby beings. We grow up confused—as adults, most of us feel sick and sad when we see living beings tortured and killed, yet we purchase and consume the flesh, fur, secretions, and skin of living beings every day. We work hard to deceive ourselves and each other in order to maintain the illusion of a real boundary around “human.”</div>
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The threats of economic collapse, the defiant claims of inherent rights, and the stubborn refusal to change behavior—these tired arguments have been heard and overcome many times in the past. Every time a boundary shifts, the suffragists or the abolitionists or the emancipators are at first ridiculed and belittled for their stance of equal consideration. Eventually, the lies are exposed, and freedom is won—for women, blacks, Christians, gays, Asians, the Irish, Catholics, Jews. Let freedom now include <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">all</em> beings. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"> </strong></div>
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Animals</h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">We are all animals.</em></div>
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Human beings have few, if any, unique capabilities—many beings can learn languages, enjoy complex social bonds, sacrifice pleasure for the good of others, use tools, imagine, and dream. Many beings remember information, play with friends, enjoy intimacy, gossip, and mourn their deceased. Some beings have enormous capabilities beyond our own—in navigation, endurance, communication, and detection of natural phenomena. We don’t yet fully understand how all beings think—or what they think—but dismissing their mental world as less developed, rational, moral, or intelligent than our own is clearly a mistake.</div>
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Regardless of their capabilities, no living being deserves to be abused. We believe that it’s wrong to torture infant and disabled human beings who don’t have the same abilities as adults. In the same way, all beings deserve liberty and respect <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">not</em>because they share the characteristics we admire in ourselves but because they are<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">living beings</em>. We share the same evolutionary origins, we inhabit the same Earth, and we are ruled by the same laws of nature. We are all the same.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-28590564275432664282015-01-12T22:05:00.001-08:002015-01-12T22:05:05.055-08:00Rudimentary Peni Pig in a Blanket anarcho hardcor…: http://youtu.be/ZD0Jh8Jn7osUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-66585242691836225022015-01-02T10:25:00.000-08:002015-01-02T10:25:36.782-08:00Why the Animals Need Religion by Norm PhelpsTaken as a whole, the animal rights movement is hostile to religion. And this is tragic because
until animal rights gains the support of at least a sizable chunk of mainstream religion, we will
always be marginalized. In America, campaigns for social justice succeed to the degree that
they receive support from organized religion. Causes that enjoy the sponsorship of our
churches and synagogues become public policy; those that do not remain marginal or vanish
from view.
It has been this way throughout our history. The original call to end human slavery came from
men and women in England whose religious faith inspired them to speak out against evil. These
included George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, and his fellow Quaker John Woolman,
John Wesley, founder of Methodism, and Richard “Humanity Dick” Martin and William
Wilberforce, both of whom credited their social conscience to religious conviction. On this side
of the Atlantic, their cry was taken up by religiously inspired abolitionists like Lucretia Mott,
Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Maria W. Stewart, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown,
and Frederick Douglass. In 1783, eighty years before emancipation, the Society of Friends
yearly meeting for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, western Maryland, and western
Virginia (the largest and most influential Quaker meeting in the country) petitioned Congress to
abolish slavery. Right up to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, churches were the
most popular settings for anti-slavery rallies, while their members filled the ranks of the
abolitionist movement, and the language of the Sunday morning sermon became the language of
abolition, filled with appeals to Christian mercy and divine justice, drawing the parallel between
the American slavery of Africans and the Egyptian slavery of the Israelites, while celebrating
emancipation as “crossing the Jordan” and freedom as “the Promised Land.”
Nearly a century later, the civil rights movement picked up where the abolitionists had left off.
Born in the churches of Atlanta and Birmingham after World War II, it spread first through the
black churches of the south, then those of the north, and finally to white churches and
synagogues across the country. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was the movement’s single most
influential leader, and his closest associates, Ralph David Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Floyd
McKissick, and Jesse Jackson were Baptist ministers; two others, Edgar Nixon and A. Philip
Randolph, were the sons of ministers, and yet another, Bayard Rustin, was raised on the
Quaker philosophy of his grandmother and educated at Wilberforce College, which taught the
Christian social gospel of its namesake, William Wilberforce. They were all inspired by their
religious faith to take up the cause, and their followers came first and foremost from the
churches. The organization they created, the largest, most important, and most effective civil
rights organization of the 20th century, was called The Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.
As with the abolition movement, much of the rhetoric of the civil rights movement was the
rhetoric of religion. Consider this brief passage from Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a
Birmingham Jail.” “But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as
the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their ‘thus saith the Lord’
far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of
Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so
am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must
constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.”
Dr. King is referring to Acts 16:9, which describes a vision in which Paul was visited by a
Macedonian who begged him to “come and help us.” Macedonia was a rough and tumble
frontier province on the northern fringe of the Classical world. King is suggesting that he has
been called by God to the land of the barbarians, where he will have to endure great hardships
and risk great dangers.
When, a few days before his death, Dr. King said, “I have been to the mountaintop, I have
seen the promised land,” he was identifying himself with Moses, who when death was upon
him, was taken by God to the top of Mount Nebo, where he could look out and see the
promised land that he would not live to enter. And more importantly, he was identifying African-
Americans suffering under segregation with the suffering of the Israelites who were enslaved in
Egypt. Those were identifications that resonated with Americans of all races and religions
because the stories of the Bible are as much a part of the American mythology as Paul Revere
and the Boston Tea Party—and they carry with them the moral authority that even secular
Americans grant only to values that are rooted in religion.
Even Malcolm X, who is often portrayed as the polar opposite of Martin Luther King, and after
him was the most popular and influential civil rights leader, found his inspiration in religion – in
his case, Islam – and invoked the moral authority of religion.
Historians and sociologists, in thrall to the secularism which these days is a litmus test for
respectability among people who fancy themselves intellectuals, treat the religious nature of the
civil rights movement somewhat like a Victorian gentleman would have treated the case of a
pregnant, unmarried sister: it is something not to be mentioned in polite company. To them the
religious roots of the civil rights movement betray an embarrassing lack of sophistication. They
prefer to patronize the black religious community by treating it as a purely social institution
whose role was to lend logistical support to the civil rights movement, rather than as the
spiritual organism that gave birth to it. But whether the academic community likes it or not, the
most important contribution of the churches – black, white, and integrated – to the civil rights
movement was not a communication network and ready-made audiences for activists; it was
moral authority. When the pastors said that integration and equality before the law were right
and that segregation and inequality were wrong, their congregations listened; and over time, so
did the rest of America. It was the same pattern that had characterized the abolition movement
a hundred years before.
The women’s suffrage movement grew out of the abolitionist movement, and the two shared
many of the same religiously inspired leaders, including Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony,
Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Frederick Douglass, and William Lloyd Garrison. Again, the
nation’s churches provided leadership, membership, and rallying places for the suffrage
movement, as well as a rhetoric that carried a moral authority able to pull the rest of the
country along in its wake. Churches became battlegrounds in the struggle for women’s suffrage,
especially in the west, where harsh necessity had forced women to work, fight, and endure
hardship in a fashion that quickly disabused men of the ego inflating myth that women were the
“weaker sex,” unsuited by their gender to responsibility and power.
If the modern feminist and gay and lesbian rights movements are less obviously rooted in
religion than these earlier movements, it is nonetheless true that they have garnered the support
of large segments of mainstream religion in America. Most denominations now ordain women
pastors, deacons, and bishops, and even the Roman Catholic Church, which does not, has its
share of female theologians, such as Marie Hendrickx, a high-ranking Vatican staff member
who is a close associate of Pope Benedict XVI, the very conservative former Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger. Only in the far extremes of the evangelical Christian right do women who want to
pursue careers in traditionally male dominated professions, and who expect to receive equal
pay, equal treatment, and equal opportunities while doing so, meet with systemic disapproval.
Although it has not, by and large, been shouting its support from the rooftops, mainstream
American Christianity and Judaism have quietly accepted the goals of the feminist movement,
at least as they apply in the secular world, and in so doing, have assured its lasting success.
Likewise with homosexual rights. The recent appointment of an openly gay bishop by the
Episcopal Church is only the most visible evidence of a change that has been slowly and quietly
taking place in liberal and mainstream congregations around the country over the past three
decades. Gay civil marriage could become a reality in America with little more than token
objections from most mainstream congregations. Among Christians, only the evangelical right
and the Catholic Church would line up solidly against it, and among Catholics, the issue would
serve to open wider the already cavernous gap that exists between the hierarchy on the one
hand and the laity and much of the clerical rank-and-file on the other. Like the women’s
movement, the gay and lesbian rights movement is bringing about a permanent revolution in
American society in large part because its appeal to conscience has persuaded a major segment
of the religious community to quietly support it.
Progressivism Charges over the Cliff
At the other end of the scale, the near total collapse of liberal and progressive movements that
was the most important social development of the second half of the 20th century was due in
large measure to the identification in the public mind of progressivism with aggressive
secularism and atheism, and a corresponding identification of free-market conservatism with
religion. When the leaders of the socialist, communist, and anarchist movements in the 19th and
20th centuries wrapped themselves in the banner of materialism and declared religion to be at
best an irrelevant anachronism and at worst an instrument of oppression and “the opiate of the
people,” they were unwittingly arranging their own failure in the United States. And following
World War II, the United States would intervene politically, militarily, and economically to
bring about their failure in Europe. The much ballyhooed (at least until recent weeks; I am
writing in December, 2008.) triumph of virtually unrestrained free-market capitalism is due in
large part to the success of conservatives in identifying democratic socialism in the public mind
with communism, and identifying both with atheism. By deliberately poking a finger in the eye
of the religious community, the progressive movement succeeded in marginalizing itself for at
least a full generation. We are an increasingly – and frighteningly – reactionary country today
because the leadership of the progressive movements of the twentieth century heaped scorn on
the religion which the overwhelming majority of Americans hold so dear (whether they actually
practice it or not), while the robber barons of industry realized that by saying the right prayers
and singing the right hymns they could persuade the public to vote against their own economic
and social self-interest.
If we do not want animal rights to go the way of decent public education, universal higher
education, universal health care, and a social safety net that offers genuine protection to those
who cannot cope on their own, we had better learn the lessons that the failure of these goals
teaches. And the most important of those lessons is this: In our one nation under God, if
religion is against you, you lose.
A Holy Nation
Only in Muslim countries is religion as dominant a factor in public life as in America. Because
we are divided among a number of denominations, the profoundly religious orientation of the
United States is not as apparent as the religious orientation of, say, the countries of Latin
America where the vast majority belong to a single denomination, but it is actually stronger.
Whether they actively practice it or not – whether or not they even believe most of it in their
secret heart of hearts – most Americans look to religion for their moral values and their ethical
principles. Thus, religion has a radiating influence that extends far beyond the walls of the
church to permeate our entire culture. Our social and political discourse is framed in terms of
religious concepts to a degree that is incomprehensible to Europeans and to most American
progressives. But the latter, as we have seen, ignore it at their peril.
Throughout the world as a whole, there are only two circumstances in which social movements
can succeed while appearing to disrespect religion. The first is where the population is highly
secularized and religion plays a very minor role in public life, as in Scandinavia. The second is
where there is strong anti-clerical sentiment based on the church’s historic alliance with an
oppressive ruling class, as in Italy and much of Latin America. Neither circumstance obtains in
the United States.
In his book The European Dream, social analyst Jeremy Rifkin recites some mind-boggling
numbers about religion in American life. Rather than simply rehearsing familiar statistics about
religious affiliation and church attendance, let’s focus on the more pertinent question of the role
that religion plays in shaping Americans’ values and their understanding of the world. According
to Rifkin, who relies on published polling data by respected, independent groups like the Gallup
Organization and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, “Nearly half of the
American people say that it is necessary to believe in God to have good values,” while 58%
believe that “the strength of American society is ‘predicated on the religious faith of its
people.’” “Forty-five percent of Americans believe that ‘God created human beings pretty
much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so,’ and an equal number
believe that the second coming of Christ will occur in their lifetime.” Sixty-eight percent of
college graduates and 55% of holders of masters degrees and doctorates “believe in the devil.”
A whopping 82% of Americans believe in Heaven as a literal place to which souls go after
death. Sixty percent of Americans “say that their faith is involved in every aspect of their lives,”
and 82% say that “God is very important to them.” A public that describes their religious faith
in these terms is not going to be responsive to an animal rights movement that treats religion as
part of the problem and actively teaches that it ought to be replaced by a secular worldview.
The Failures of Religion
There can be no denying that animal advocates have good reason to be distrustful of religion.
The Judeo-Christian tradition that is dominant in the United States has a miserable record on
animals. Not only has it failed to provide leadership, it has more often been actively on the side
of animal exploitation and murder, as is shown in the Jewish and Christian practice of thanking
God before each meal for the dead flesh of murdered animals. Exhortations from the pulpit to
show animals kindness generally have stopped far short of suggestions that we ought not be
abusing and killing them for our own purposes. And it is certainly no coincidence that Western
Europe, where personal lifestyle and public policy are much less shaped by religion than they
are here, is far ahead of the United States in the protection of animals.
But it is equally true that many of the same churches that now defend animal slavery as
ordained by God once defended human slavery on the same basis, and not without justification.
There are several passages in the Bible that approve of human slavery, while there is no
passage in the Bible that condemns it. The Bible actually lends more support to animal rights
than to the abolition of human slavery.
And yet, as we have seen, the movement to end slavery was born and nurtured in the churches,
White churches as well as Black. And it is this pattern that we must strive to replicate. Religious
abolitionists like Garrison and Douglass generally ignored the passages in the Bible that could be
quoted in support of slavery. Instead, they focused on the passages that express the heart of the
Bible’s spiritual message, such as “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” “Do unto others
as you would have them do unto you,” “Blessed are the merciful,” and “Blessed are the
meek.” Slavery, they repeated over and over again, is incompatible with the Bible’s
overarching message. The Bible’s teachings on love and mercy can only be understood as a
condemnation of slavery.
This is the same message that we must take to the churches and synagogues of America.
Animal exploitation – animal agriculture, vivisection, hunting, fishing, rodeos, and so on – are
incompatible with the Bible’s overarching message. Jewish and Christian teachings on love and
mercy can only be understood as a condemnation of animal exploitation. Imprisoning, torturing,
and killing God’s innocent sentient creatures for our own benefit cannot be reconciled with
Judaism’s and Christianity’s teachings on love, self-sacrifice, and mercy. The Bible clearly and
consistently teaches that animals are sentient beings, able to suffer just as we are. The Bible
also teaches that, like us, animals have immortal souls and will be present in the Kingdom of
Heaven (the Messianic Age). Building on this foundation, we must repeat over and over again,
to everyone who is willing to listen, and some who aren’t, that animal exploitation violates the
foundational teachings of Judaism and Christianity on love and mercy.
If the abolitionists had thrown up their hands in disgust at the level of support for slavery in
White churches and condemned religion, they would have sabotaged their own cause by
alienating almost the entirety of the American public. If we throw up our hands in disgust at the
level of support for animal abuse in America’s churches and synagogues, we will set back the
animals’ cause by at least a generation and probably more. Like the old abolitionists, we must
convert the churches, not write them off.
Among Christians, we will make the best progress by starting with the liberal and traditionally
mainstream churches, including (among others, I do not mean to rule out a denomination by not
mentioning it) Unitarian-Universalist, Quaker, the churches of the Anglican Communion, the
Dutch Reformed Churches, the more moderate Lutheran congregations, the United Methodist
Church, the United Church of Christ, the Church of the Brethren, the Seventh Day Adventists,
the Congregationalists, the Eastern Orthodox churches (which have an ancient tradition dating
back to the Desert Fathers of ethical vegetarianism and respect for animals), and, interestingly
enough, the more liberal elements of the Roman Catholic Church. There are several very
dynamic inter-denominational groups, including the Christian Vegetarian Association, led by Dr.
Steven Kaufmann, Viatoris Ministries and Humane Religion Magazine, founded by the late
Rev. J. R. Hyland, God's Creatures Ministry, led by Janice Fredericks, and All-Creatures.Org,
led by United Methodist minister Rev. Frank Hoffman and his wife Mary. The mainstream,
secular animal rights movement ought to be reaching out to these groups and to the churches,
and offering them resources and support. PETA is the role model here with an outstanding
program of outreach to religious communities – created and guided by their vice president for
international grassroots campaigns Bruce Friedrich, a devout Catholic. And it is an encouraging
sign that The Humane Society of the United States has recently created a religious outreach
program headed by Christine Gutleben.
Judaism has always had a stronger tradition of respect for animals than most Christian
denominations, and except for the so-called ultra-orthodox, all the major branches of Judaism,
Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and Reconstructionist are potentially open to the animals’
cause. Here, groups like Jewish Vegetarians of North America, founded and led by Dr. Richard
Schwartz, and Jews for Animal Rights, founded and led by Dr. Roberta Kalechofsky, are doing
outstanding work. Again, they need more support from the secular animal protection movement.
Islam, which is becoming increasingly important in the United States, combines a strong
tradition of animal welfare with an equally strong opposition to animal rights. Just as Judaism is
the Abrahamic religion most open to the animal rights message, I believe that Islam will prove
to be the least open. But there are voices within Islam speaking out in defense of animals, such
as the late Al-Hafiz B. A. Masri, the Saudi-born imam of an influential English mosque, who
called for an end to vivisection and animal agriculture.
A Built-in Bias
Far too many of the leaders of the animal rights movement have a personal animus toward
religion that disinclines them to reach out to the religious community on behalf of animals.
Some are anti-religion on principle. They believe that religion is an outmoded superstition that
needs to be done away with for the general good of humanity and society. Unfortunately, the
recent ascendancy of the religious right in America has reinforced this attitude in those already
in that camp, and pushed into it others who had not been there previously. To them I can only
say two things. First, you are never going to convert the American public to atheism. And if you
persist in identifying animal rights with a materialist worldview, you will condemn the animals to
unending abuse. Second, the religious right does not represent true religion. The religious
fundamentalism wedded to political fascism that is threatening to destroy the American way of
life is alien to the spirit of authentic faith, which is reflected in the teachings of the Later
Prophets and Jesus and represented by the ages old principles of “You shall love your neighbor
as yourself,” and “Blessed are the merciful.” It is to believers who live by these themes that we
must appeal, not the fundamentalists who pay them lip service while living by a code of
militancy that displays love and mercy only toward those who agree with them.
Other movement leaders (and rank and file as well) believe that animal abuse arises from and is
reinforced by the dominionist outlook of Judaism and Christianity, which are inherently hostile
to animals. This view finds its most thoughtful and articulate expression in An Unnatural Order
by Jim Mason, an environmental and animal rights pioneer whose expose of factory farming,
Animal Factories (co-authored with Peter Singer), has found a well-deserved place in the first
rank of animal rights classics. Near the end of An Unnatural Order, Mason gives a passing nod
to traditions within Christianity, Judaism, and Islam that are friendly to women, animals, and
the environment. Then he notes that these traditions “would, if revived, contribute some
healing to the spiritual, sexual, and environmental crises we now find ourselves in. One hopes
that the progressive faithful can find them and successfully revive them.” The conditional verb
and the limiting “some” in the first sentence suck the life out of the hope expressed in the
second. As long as the animal rights movement sits passively on the sidelines and refuses to
address religion with both respect and uncompromising moral force, Mason’s “hope” will
remain forlorn.
But Mason is right about one thing, those traditions are there, and they reach in unbroken
lineage back to the ultimate wellsprings of human morality, which are in every society religious.
In the Abrahamic religions, they reach back to “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” “Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you,” “Blessed are the merciful,” “Blessed are the
peacemakers.” One of the fundamental challenges facing the animal rights movement is
showing modern Christians, Jews, and Muslims what these statements mean for our
relationship to animals in the modern world.
Our task is not to discredit or revise religious ethics. Quite the opposite. Our task is to highlight
the ethical teachings that already stand at the heart of the great religions, and show that they
apply equally to all of God’s sentient creatures. The teachings that would deny animals the full
protection of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ethics did not originate in Judaism, Christianity, or
Islam. They originated in Classical Greek philosophy, specifically in the teachings of Aristotle
and the Stoics. They are alien imports into the Abrahamic religions, and therefore, they are not
of the essence of these faiths. (For a description of this process, see Phelps, The Longest
Struggle, pp. 34-36 and 52-58.) It is universal, boundless love and compassion that are of their
essence, and that can lead the religious communities to animal rights, just at universal,
boundless love and compassion have led them to human rights without regard for such morally
irrelevant factors as race, nationality, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
In fact, the core ethical teaching of all the world’s major religions is identical. It is unbounded,
universal love and compassion. And this creates at the heart of each of the great religions a
natural receptivity to the animal rights message. At present, this door of receptivity is most
often blocked by selfish barricades that would limit our love and compassion to other human
beings. But, as we have seen, similar barricades have just as often and just as fiercely blocked
members of other races, nationalities, or religions from the love and compassion of the faithful,
and those barricades were overcome when they were shown to be at odds with the ethical heart
of the faith. In fact, the conflict between fundamentalism and the more generous forms of
religion (in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and other faiths) can be best understood as
the struggle between those who would limit religion’s ethical teachings to a small, restricted
group of “deserving” recipients, and those who would apply them as they were originally
formulated—to all who stand in need of love, acceptance, and mercy.
A False Messiah
I do not share the hope of some that the replacement of a religious, spiritual worldview by a
“scientific,” materialist worldview will advance the animals’ cause. Historically, science has
treated animals no better than religion, and scientists are in the forefront of contemporary
animal abusers. Darwin may have believed that nonhuman animals have rich interior lives not
much different from our own and that this has serious implications for our treatment of them,
but subsequent generations of scientists have ignored this aspect of his work. Vivisection (which
even Darwin supported) is the creation of science, not religion, and one-hundred percent of
vivisectors are scientists. Biological, medical, chemical, and social scientists have not hesitated
to imprison, torture, and murder vast numbers of animals in the name of science. Geneticists
routinely create “transgenic” animals who are deliberately designed to suffer from diseases and
other painful, disabling, and lethal abnormalities that make them useful in experiments. They
have gone beyond inflicting suffering on already living beings to designing beings whose
suffering is built into them, an atrocity beyond the grasp of earlier generations of abusers.
The fathers of modern vivisection, Francois Magendie and Claude Bernard, were among the
nineteenth century’s foremost opponents of religion and leading advocates for the scientific
worldview. But that did not stop them from conducting experiments on unanesthetized animals
so cruel that they almost single-handedly gave rise to the anti-vivisection movement in Europe
and North America.
The dominionist outlook of the Abrahamic religions does not cause animal exploitation, and
abolishing religion will not end it. We exploit animals because we enjoy the products of animal
exploitation and we can do so with impunity. Dominionism simply provides an after-the-fact
justification for what we already want to do. This is why animal exploitation is not limited to
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim countries, but is found everywhere on Earth, regardless of
religion, culture, history, or economic system. We like the results, and we can get away with it.
If religion were abolished tomorrow, the animal exploiters would never miss a beat. They would
simply find a new justification, and life—and death—would go on as before, business as usual,
just as scientists have found a nonreligious justification for their cruelties and killings. Until we
are made to face the pure evil of what we are doing, we will always find a defense of animal
exploitation in whatever belief system we adopt.
In the final analysis, the argument for animal rights is entirely a moral argument, based on
compassion. It is wrong for humankind to inflict suffering and premature death on sentient
creatures because we enjoy the taste of their flesh, milk, or eggs, or we think their skin looks
and feels good on our feet, or we hope that if we torture and kill enough animals we can extend
our own lives, or whatever. That is the alpha and the omega of animal rights. There may be
other, entirely valid, reasons for doing things that advance the animals’ cause – such as
adopting a vegan diet to improve our health, or eliminating animal agriculture to reduce global
warming and end world hunger—but there is no reason other than morality for granting animals
rights. And the arbiter of American morality is religion. As long as our rabbis, priests, pastors,
and—increasingly—imams are telling Americans that animal exploitation is not wrong, the bulk
of Americans will see no reason to give up their prime rib, their leather shoes, the research that
may cure cancer, or the circus elephants that their kids enjoy so much. When you are making a
moral argument, as we are, the refusal to make it to the very people and institutions that honor
morality above all else here on earth is irresponsible. We have a powerful moral and spiritual
argument on behalf of animals. And like the abolitionists and civil rights advocates of old, we
need to use it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-30469337090328460242014-12-31T14:34:00.001-08:002014-12-31T14:34:09.765-08:00 Cult Leader Jim Shockey Encourages Parents to Teach their Kids to Kill <p dir="ltr">Cult Leader Jim Shockey Encourages Parents to Teach their Kids to Kill <a href="http://wp.me/p2VIJJ-Ah">http://wp.me/p2VIJJ-Ah</a></p>
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<strong>Clinical assistant professor</strong> Maureen Murray of the <a href="http://vet.tufts.edu/" style="color: #666666;" target="_blank">Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine</a> in central Massachusetts was doing a good job of keeping her emotions under wraps as she clicked through photos of her recent necropsies. But I was watching her eyes as well as her computer screen, and they revealed anguish. Like her colleagues here and at similar clinics around the country, Murray is a wildlife advocate as well as a scientist.</div>
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Each image was, in her word and my perception, "sadder" than the last. There was the great horned owl with a hematoma running the length of its left wing; the red-tailed hawk's body cavity glistening with unclotted blood; sundry raptors with pools of blood under dissected skin; the redtail with a hematoma that had ballooned its left eye to 10 times normal size; and, "saddest of all," the redtail with an egg. The well-developed blood vessels in her oviducts had ruptured, and she had slowly bled to death from the inside.</div>
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All these birds were victims of "second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides" used by exterminators, farmers, and homeowners. They're found in such brand names as d-Con, Hot Shot, Generation, Talon, and Havoc, and they sell briskly because of our consuming hatred of rats and mice. The most pestiferous species are alien to the New World and therefore displace native wildlife; they contaminate our food and spread disease. We also hate them for their beady eyes, their naked tails, and their vile depictions in literature, from Aesop to E.B. White. So the general attitude among the public is "if a little poison's good, a lot's better." But even a little second-generation rodenticide kills nontarget wildlife.</div>
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Both first- and second-generation rodenticides prevent blood from clotting by inhibiting vitamin K, though the second-generation products build to higher concentrations in rodents and are therefore more lethal to anything that eats them. The second generation was developed by Imperial Chemical Industries of London at the request of the <a href="http://www.who.int/en/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a>, because rats appeared to be developing tolerance to warfarin, a first-generation rodenticide.</div>
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contaminants specialist Michael Fry makes this point about the widespread use of second-generation rodenticides by people oblivious to the dangers: "One good reason for using first-generation poisons is that if you do have a problem, like developing tolerance, you want a backup. If you go in with your strongest thing first, there's no backup."</div>
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For a rodent to get a lethal dose from a first-generation rodenticide it has to eat it more than once, but that's not a problem. Leave first-generation baits out for a week and they're just as efficient as the second generation. What makes second-generation rodenticides so non-selective is that they kill slowly, so rodents keep eating them long after they've ingested a lethal dose. By the time they expire, or are about to, they contain many times the lethal dose and are therefore deadly to predators, scavengers, and pets.</div>
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Because they are weapons of mass destruction, second-generation rodenticides are the preferred tool wildlife managers use to restore native ecosystems to rat-infested islands. But the EPA has declared them too dangerous for public use and ordered them off the general market. They're still widely available, however, because stores have huge stocks and because a recent court decision has allowed three of the largest manufacturers to defy the order.</div>
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<strong>Many of Murray's patients</strong> don't have enough red-blood cells to deliver oxygen to their tissues, so they are logy. Their heads droop, the linings of their mouths are pale; some bleed from their eyes, nose, lungs, or other organs. In 2011 she found rodenticides in 86 percent of the raptor livers she examined, and all but one contained brodifacoum, especially deadly to birds. She rehabilitates some patients by injecting them with vitamin K, but the birds still retain rodenticides and are likely to accumulate more after they are released.</div>
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There's no safe place or safe delivery system for second-generation rodenticides. After a rodent partakes, it stumbles around for three to four days, displaying itself as an especially tempting meal not just for raptors but for mammalian predators, including red foxes, gray foxes, endangered San Joaquin kit foxes, swift foxes, coyotes, wolves, raccoons, black bears, skunks, badgers, mountain lions, bobcats, fishers, dogs, and house cats--all of which suffer lethal and sublethal secondary poisoning from eating rodents. Deer, nontarget rodents, waterfowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, songbirds, and children suffer lethal and sublethal poisoning from eating bait directly.</div>
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A four-year survey (1999 to 2003) by the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Environmental Protection Agency</a> found that at least 25,549 children under age six ingested enough rodenticide to suffer poisoning symptoms. Currently about 15,000 calls per year come in to the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Centers for Disease Control</a> from parents whose children have eaten rodenticides. Even if you place bait where children can't get it, rodents are apt to distribute it around your house and property.</div>
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In California, the only state other than New York that has looked carefully, rodenticides showed up in 79 percent of fishers (one fisher even transferred poisons to her kit via her milk), 78 percent of mountain lions, 84 percent of San Joaquin kit foxes, and, in San Diego County, 92 percent of raptors.</div>
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In New York rodenticides were found in 49 percent of 12 species of necropsied raptors. For great horned owls the figure was 81 percent.</div>
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Similar contamination is seen around the world. In Great Britain necropsies revealed the poisons in 92 percent of red kites, 91 percent of barn owls, and 80 percent of kestrels. In Denmark rodenticides were found in 73 percent of all necropsied raptors. In just a six-week period ended on January 23, 2012, second-generation rodenticides killed about a dozen spotted eagle owls in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Rodenticides are also blighting raptors in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Canada.</div>
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Canada doesn't have near the rodent problems we do, but raptors there carry as much rodenticide as anywhere--a fact that puzzles Pierre Mineau, a leading ecotoxicologist who retired from Environment Canada's National Wildlife Research Centre in 2012. "There are high levels of exposure in every species we've looked at," he says. "Not just in the rodent eaters but in the accipiters [which eat mostly birds]. I wouldn't have expected that. It's still a mystery how this stuff is moving through terrestrial food chains. Insects may be picking it up and passing it to the songbirds that eat them. That might account for the accipiter [poisoning] connection."</div>
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While the California data is quite recent, monitoring has essentially ceased there and in New York, and it never really began anywhere else. "If you look back at the incidence reports, there are big peaks, and then the funding gets cut off by California and New York," remarks Nancy Golden, a contaminants specialist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.</div>
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But at least in California and New York, nontarget rodenticide poisoning is a public issue. New York City is much enamored of a 22-year-old red-tailed hawk named Pale Male ("<a href="http://audm.ag/VbxQCh" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">How the Nest Was Won</a>"). In February 2012 Pale Male's mate, Lima, was found dead shortly before she would have laid eggs. The inside of her mouth was pale, as were her heart, lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys, and brain. The necropsy turned up fatal doses of three rodenticides, including brodifacoum, in her liver. Pale Male then took another mate, his sixth--Zena. In 2012 the pair fledged three chicks, one of which is thought to have been killed by rodenticides and two of which were gravely sickened by rodenticides but treated with vitamin K and released. The city, of course, has lost many less famous birds.</div>
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New York City Audubon entreats the public never to use the two second-generation rodenticides most toxic to birds (brodifacoum and difethialone) and not to use others except as a last resort and never during nesting season, when adults can feed poisoned rodents to their young and each other. But some bird lovers are scolding the organization for not demanding a complete ban. Director Glenn Phillips offers this defense: "Our city has a huge rat problem. We can't ban all use of rodenticides; it's never going to happen. If we were to advocate that, we couldn't get the support of a single city agency. If you want to tilt at windmills, you can try. If you want to actually make things better for birds, you have to do what you can to reduce rodenticides, even if you can't eliminate them."</div>
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I have to side with Phillips because his organization has no choice. It's making the best of a bad situation. But that doesn't mean second-generation rodenticides have a legitimate place in or around New York City dwellings or in or around dwellings anywhere--not even when set out by farmers or licensed exterminators. Both tend to be just as clueless about collateral poisonings as the general public.</div>
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Consider the experience of Jeannine Altmeyer, a retired opera singer from the small south-coast town of Ojai, California. She had a major rat infestation because her 2.5-acre property is surrounded by orange and avocado farms. So in 2009 she hired a licensed exterminator. "These guys came every month for three years," she told me. "There were far fewer rats for the first two years, but last winter we had a horrible infestation. Every night I'd see at least five rats crawling on the chicken coop. The company put out these tamper-proof boxes. Then on August 3, 2012, my beautiful, five-year old golden retriever, Franz, was acting strange. His gums were snow white; back then I didn't know what that meant. He weighed 90 pounds. We had to carry him downstairs on a sheet, and he died on the way to the vet's. Franz was a wonderful dog. I had a necropsy done; they found brodifacoum."</div>
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Altmeyer paused, then continued, her voice cracking. "The pest-control people told me the bait wasn't dangerous, that there was no secondary poisoning. I used to throw the dead rats over the wall; I would never do that now. The local vets see lots of poisoned dogs because the farmers indiscriminately put the stuff out in their orchards. One woman didn't have the money to pay for treatment for her poisoned dog so she was going to sell her washer and drier. The vet had to tell her, 'Keep your machines; I can't save your dog.'"</div>
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<strong style="font-size: 16px;">But second-generation rodenticides</strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"> do have a legitimate use--ecosystem restoration on rat-infested islands. These projects are tremendously expensive, and you get only one shot, so you need weapons of mass destruction. There's no "almost"; you kill every rat save non-pregnant ones of the same sex or you fail.As if in a ghoulish recast of </span><em style="font-size: 16px;">The Nutcracker Suite,</em><span style="font-size: 16px;"> Norway rats had ruled aptly named Rat Island in the Aleutians since they'd disembarked from a wrecked Japanese ship in 1780. They'd eradicated songbirds, seabirds, native plants, and even the island's original name--Hawadax. Biologists described the island as "eerily quiet." Then in 2008 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners (The Nature Conservancy and Island Conservation) deployed two helicopters to saturation-bomb 6,424 acres with 46 metric tons of brodifacoum bait. Cost: $2.5 million.</span></div>
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There can be no better example of the deadliness of second-generation rodenticides than collateral damage on Rat Island. Found dead along with the rats were 46 bald eagles, at least 320 glaucous-winged gulls, one peregrine falcon, and 53 other birds representing 24 species. Despite the heart-breaking nontarget mortality, the project succeeded from a species perspective. Today the island (renamed Hawadax) is rat free, and native species rarely, if ever, seen are surging back--among them burrow-nesting seabirds, giant song sparrows (found only in the Aleutians), black oystercatchers, pigeon guillemots, rock sandpipers, common eiders, red-faced cormorants, and gray-crowned rosy finches.</div>
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Collateral damage on Rat Island taught the partners valuable lessons. In 2011 they took on the black rats thought to have been introduced by the U.S. Navy in World War II to Palmyra Atoll, a national wildlife refuge between Hawaii and American Samoa. Again they applied brodifacoum by helicopter. And because of an enormous population of land crabs known to eat rat bait like candy and with impunity the partners had to use far more poison than would otherwise be necessary. But they applied it when birds weren't migrating through the area, and they captured resident birds, mostly bristle-thighed curlews, maintaining them in an aviary for two months. At a cost of $2.7 million and a few nontarget mortalities (but very few) the island is now rat free, and what had been a biological desert is exploding into a vibrant native ecosystem. Seedling pisonia trees, all but eliminated by rats, now carpet the ground. Other plants thought to have been extirpated are back. Dragonflies and crickets have reappeared. Fiddler crabs patrol the beaches in numbers biologists had never imagined possible. Now instead of a few hundred sooty tern fledglings there are thousands; similar nesting success of other seabirds is imminent.</div>
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"It's really hard to argue against the overwhelming benefits of rodenticiding rats off seabird islands," comments Canada's Pierre Mineau, who has experience with these projects. "But I really question, as does your EPA, whether every homeowner needs a sledge hammer when a flyswatter will do. The companies don't see it that way; once they have a product, they need to sell a certain volume to make it profitable. If they have to sell it only on a strictly needed basis for island rat eradication, it's probably not worth it."</div>
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<strong style="font-size: 16px;">The questioning Mineau refers to</strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"> percolated within the EPA for years. Finally, in 2008, the agency declared that second-generation rodenticides brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difethialone, and difenacoum posed an "unreasonable risk" to children, pets, and wildlife, and gave manufacturers three years to cease selling directly to residential consumers--a standard procedure. But it left a gaping loophole by exempting large-quantity sales (presumably to farmers) and tamper-proof bait boxes used by exterminators. Predators, scavengers, and pets are no less poisoned if they eat rodents that consume bait from sealed boxes or bait set out by farmers.</span></div>
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Of the 29 rodenticide manufacturers receiving the EPA's directive for new safety requirements, 26 complied. Among these was Bell Laboratories, honored by the Wisconsin Environmental Working Group, its home-state neighbor, for designing the specialized bait formulation for Rat Island. (Bell also designed formulations for Palmyra Island and similar successful projects on the Galapagos Islands, South Georgia Island, Channel Islands National Park off California, and Canna Island off Scotland.)</div>
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But in a nearly unprecedented move, three companies have refused. They are Spectrum Group, which, ironically, makes pet-care products along with the rat and mouse poison (whose active ingredient is brodifacoum, especially deadly to pets); Liphatech, which produces rodenticides Generation, Maki, and Rozol--the strictly regulated but still-registered prairie-dog poison that has killed raptors and predatory mammals, probably including endangered black-footed ferrets (see "<a href="http://audm.ag/Rozol" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Doggone</a>"); and Reckitt Benckiser, the $37 billion-a-year multinational company that markets popular household products like Woolite, Lysol, French's Mustard, and brodifacoum-laced d-Con.</div>
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In January 2011 Reckitt Benckiser, the most intransigent of the three, prevailed in its legal complaint that the EPA lacked the authority to enforce its order unless it had already canceled registration of a pesticide. That doesn't mean the company won't have to stop general consumer sales of its second-generation rodenticides if EPA pulls that registration, as it claims it will do. But formal cancellation proceedings can take years, and that's what Reckitt Benckiser wants. Meanwhile, species that don't have that kind of time will keep dying.</div>
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Currently Reckitt Benckiser is accusing the EPA of discriminating against minorities and low-income families. "They're trying to turn this into an environmental-justice issue," says Cynthia Palmer, who runs the American Bird Conservancy's pesticides program. "That's ridiculous. All the studies show that it's actually these low-income kids who are getting poisoned. The New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene went to EPA's scientific advisory panel back in November 2011 and said, 'No way, we don't need these poisons. We support your 2008 order.' "</div>
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The EPA has been no less aggressive in exposing Reckitt Benckiser's fiction. It notes that "data indicate that children in low-income families are disproportionately exposed [to rodenticides]."</div>
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<strong>Secondary poisoning</strong> is even more of a public issue in California than in New York. On July 4, 2007, Berkeley resident Dan Rubino found two dead birds in his swimming pool and called his neighbor, wildlife advocate Lisa Owens Viani. She identified them as juvenile Cooper's hawks. Because they had sought water she suspected rodenticide poisoning--a suspicion confirmed by the University of California-Davis, which found brodifacoum in their livers.</div>
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Owens Viani then cofounded <a href="http://www.raptorsarethesolution.org/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Raptors are the Solution</a> (RATS), a national alliance of citizens, nonprofit groups, and local governments that educates consumers and municipalities about safe methods of rodent control and the dangers of second-generation poisons. "My neighbor was going to throw those birds [the two Cooper's hawks] in the garbage can," she says. "A lot of people don't even know what they are. I think we're just seeing a tiny percent of what's happening." (Owens Viani went on to serve as development director for Golden Gate Audubon, stepping down in November to devote her time to RATS.)</div>
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Because federal regulations supersede local action, municipalities can't ban pesticide sales. But in California, thanks largely to RATS and the <a href="http://www.hungryowl.org/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hungry Owl Project</a> out of San Anselmo, all of Marin County and seven cities--Albany, Richmond, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Belmont, and San Francisco--have passed resolutions discouraging the sale of second-generation rodenticides and urging stores to remove the products from their shelves. RATS is trying to get the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to cancel or refuse to renew registration of products containing them.</div>
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The San Francisco Department of the Environment has launched a citywide educational campaign for consumers called "Don't Take the Bait" and has sent letters to 130 retailers asking them to voluntarily discontinue selling dangerous rodenticides. One hundred stores, including Walgreens, with 60 outlets, and Sloat Garden Centers, with 14, have made the pledge. Lowe's and Home Depot ignored the request.</div>
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The 10-year-old Hungry Owl Project, founded and directed by former wildlife rehabber Alex Godbe, distributes safe, effective rodenticide in the form of barn owls. Once the group has prevailed on a vineyard owner to cease poisoning the gophers that gnaw grapevine roots, it erects, monitors, and maintains barn-owl nesting boxes. Currently Godbe's outfit is working with 25 vineyards. Where gophers are causing the most damage, she recommends four to six owl boxes per 50 acres, and gets 80 percent to 90 percent occupancy.</div>
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"We work particularly with barn owls because they're one of the few raptors that are almost nonterritorial," says Godbe. "So if there's enough food, you can have almost as many owls as owl boxes. And we advocate for other predators--coyotes, foxes, mountain lions, badgers, skunks, bobcats, raccoons, opossums. WildCare, a rehab facility in San Rafael and our partner organization, tests birds and mammals. I was shocked to learn that 79.1 percent of the animals it tested were positive for rodenticides. We're killing off the natural rodent control."</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Not only are these alternatives safer for people, pets and wildlife, they are, in the long run, more effective because they don't take out the mammals and birds that keep rodents in check. With second-generation poisons you'll get a spectacular initial kill. But a year or two later rodents will come storming back, as Jeannine Altmeyer can attest. You'll then be fighting a war without allies.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-77308926733947210982014-04-13T22:06:00.001-07:002014-04-13T22:06:17.891-07:00Dr Steve Best Interview - Total Liberation - with…: http://youtu.be/78xknOigq1UUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-76815016568251117352014-03-23T13:14:00.003-07:002014-03-31T08:39:05.795-07:00Taken from Psychology Today \ The Meat Paradox: Loving but Exploiting Animals<div dir="ltr">
The Meat Paradox: Loving but Exploiting Animals<br />
By Gordon Hodson, Ph.D. on March 3, 2014 - 11:31am<br />
In my research lab we have been examining how human-animal relations influence or affect human-human relations (e.g., racism and dehumanization). For instance, the Interspecies Model of Prejudice proposes that the greater the human-animal divide (i.e., perception that humans are different from and superior to animals), the more social value is afforded to representing human outgroups as “animal-like”, which in turn increases prejudice toward that group (see Costello & Hodson, 2010, in-press-a, in-press-b; Hodson & Costello, 2012; Hodson, MacInnis, & Costello, 2013; see also past Psychology Today columns here, here, and here). Put simply, we dehumanize other human groups because we consider animals beneath humans in value and worth in the first place. If we didn’t, representing others as animal-like would have no social currency.</div>
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We now have a greater understanding of why ethnic prejudices (e.g. racism) are positively associated with speciesism. For instance, people who express greater ethnic prejudice also express the most willingness to exploit non-human animals, and this effect is underpinned (or explained) by the role of social dominance orientation linking these distinct forms of bias (Dhont, Hodson, Costello, & MacInnis, 2014). In other words, concepts like racism would not be associated with animal exploitation if not for the fact that some people, relative to others, value dominance and hierarchy (see figure below).</div>
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To psychologists, our treatment of animals is now a valid research question in its own right (i.e., not just in terms of how it relates to human prejudices). For instance, psychologists are studying the “meat paradox”, the puzzling situation whereby “most people care about animals and do not want to see them harmed, but engage in a diet that requires them to be killed and, usually, to suffer” (Loughnan, Bastian, & Haslam, in press).</div>
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How can we do this? Well, part of the answer is that we do not actually “like” animals in the sense you’re likely anticipating. Consider the patron of a strip club who “likes” exotic dancers. In some sense he does, but not in the way that prevents him from benefitting from their exploitation. Rather, he directly contributes to their exploitation. Liking or disliking others can often have little association with whether or not we exploit or protect them. The same goes for animals; we “like” animals a great deal (and are often suspicious about people who do not), but hedonistically we benefit tremendously from their exploitation. We accomplish this due to the presence of mental safeguards that attenuate our anxiety.</div>
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Psychologically we neatly cleave animals into relatively artificial categories, such as “pets”, “wild animals”, and “farm animals”. These categories affect how we treat those within the category. For the most part, our treatment of farm animals would be illegal if applied toward pets. If you bought a shed, filled it with cages, then crammed dogs into these cages so tightly that they cannot stretch or move freely, you would face strong social and legal sanction. But across North America chickens are so housed in battery-cages, not able to spread their wings or move about, deprived of fresh air and sunlight. Without doubt, animal categories are artificial and culturally bound – in America dogs are pets and cows are farm animals, but other cultures treat dogs as food animals and cows as sacred beings. There is nothing inherent about an animal that makes it consumable or sacred – this comes down to human psychology.</div>
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Within a given culture, we are now learning who is most willing to consume animals. For instance, those with right-wing attitudes are more likely to self-identify as meat-eaters and exploit animals (e.g., Allen, Wilson, Ng, & Dunne, 2000; Allen & Ng, 2003; Dietz, Frisch, Kalof, Stern, & Guagnano, 1995; Hyers, 2006; Ruby, 2012).</div>
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But why? Two recent studies demonstrate that right-wing adherents consume more meat and exploit animals more for two main reasons: (a) they push back against the threat that vegetarianism and veganism supposedly pose to traditions and cultural practice, and (b) they feel more entitled to consume animals given human “superiority” (Dhont & Hodson, 2014). You read that correctly: those on the left would not differ from those on the right in meat consumption if not for the latter’s relatively higher sense of threat from animal-rights ideologies and their sense of human superiority (and thus entitlement). Ideology, is seems, creeps into the very foods we eat (see Loughan et al., in press).</div>
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But what if right-wing adherents simply like the taste of meat more than those on the left? Good question. We considered this possibility also, and indeed the former do like the meat more as a product. But they consume more meat for reasons that have to do with ideology, even after statistically removing the influence of hedonistically liking the taste of meat from the equation (Dhont & Hodson, 2014).</div>
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The psychology of exploitation represents an interesting challenge to psychologists, in part because we’ve become so accustomed to (and often attached to) our forms of exploitation, often intertwining them deeply into our cultures and way of life. Psychological research suggests that, although animal rights are on the next enlightenment horizon, progress will be resisted in the same way that equality for gay marriage is resisted today. </div>
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References and Suggested Readings:</div>
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Allen, M. W., & Ng, S. H. (2003). Human values, utilitarian benefits and identification: The case of meat. European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 37-56.</div>
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Allen, M. W., Wilson, M., Ng, S. H., & Dunne, M. (2000). Values and beliefs of 979 vegetarians and omnivores. The Journal of Social Psychology, 140, 405–422.</div>
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Costello, K., & Hodson, G. (2010). Exploring the roots of dehumanization: The role of animal-human similarity in promoting immigrant humanization. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 13, 3-22.</div>
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Costello, K., & Hodson, G. (in press-a). Explaining dehumanization among children: The interspecies model of prejudice. British Journal of Social Psychology.</div>
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Costello, K., & Hodson, G. (in press-b). Lay beliefs about the causes of and solutions to dehumanization and prejudice: Do non-experts recognize the role of human-animal relations? Journal of Applied Social Psychology. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12221</div>
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Dhont, K., & Hodson, G. (2014). Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption? Personality and Individual Differences, 64, 12-17. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.02.002</div>
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Dhont, K., & Hodson, G., Costello, K., & MacInnis, C.C. (2014). Social dominance orientation connects prejudicial human-human and human-animal relations. Personality and Individual Differences, 61-62, 105-108. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.12.020</div>
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Dietz, T., Frisch, A. S., Kalof, L., Stern, P. C., & Guagnano, G. A. (1995). Values and vegetarianism. An exploratory analysis. Rural Sociology, 60, 533–542.</div>
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Hodson, G., & Costello, K. (2012). The human cost of devaluing animals. New Scientist, 2895, 34-35.</div>
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Hodson, G. & MacInnis, C.C., & Costello, K. (2013). (Over)Valuing “Humanness” as an Aggravator of Intergroup Prejudices and Discrimination. In P. Bain, J. Vaes, & J.-Ph. Leyens (Eds.), Humanness and dehumanization (pp. 86-110). London: Psychology Press.</div>
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Hyers, L. (2006). Myths used to legitimize the exploitation of animals: An application of social dominance theory. Anthrozoos, 19, 194–210.</div>
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Loughnan, S., Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. (in press). The psychology of eating animals. Current Directions in Psychological Science.</div>
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Plous, S. (2003). Is there such a thing as prejudice toward animals? In S. Plous (Ed.), Understanding prejudice and discrimination (pp. 509-528). New York: McGraw-Hill.</div>
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Ruby, M. B. (2012). Vegetarianism. A blossoming field of study. Appetite, 58, 141-150. </div>
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"Cows do think and have emotion. I worked at the largest slaughter house on the planet. Iowa Beef. We killed 200 cattle an hour. When the cattle were moving close to the kill spot, they would weep, crying with big tears trembling with fear. You can smell the blood when your getting close, and I am sure they knew whats up. The unborn baby calves had the blood sucked out of them before taking a breath, then thrown into what would become dog food. I have stories that can make your<br />hair stand on end. Cows have emotions, just like your dog or cat and farm kids would have them as<br />pets until parents would sell them to make your hamburger. <br />
TRUTH, live with it." ~slaughterhouse workerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-4484218619186933222014-03-04T15:26:00.000-08:002014-03-04T17:05:23.713-08:00Animal Concentration Camps Across the world<h2>
See below for a list [<span style="font-size: small;">Animal Concentration Camps</span>]Universities across the world that torment and perform unnecessary and cruel experiments on animals<br />
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Argentina<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martín" of the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires<br />
Australia<br />
See also: :Category:Teaching hospitals in Australia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Macquarie University Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gold Coast University Hospital<br />
Belgium<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital Antwerpen, Antwerpen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Erasmus Hospital, Brussels<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UZ Brussel, University Hospital of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Pediatric Hospital Queen Fabiola, Brussels<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital St-Luc, Brussels<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital Gent, Ghent<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital Leuven, Leuven<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital Liège, Liège<br />
Brazil<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Federal University of Brasília, University Hospital of Brasília, HUB, Brasília, Federal District<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital of Base, Hospital de Base, HB, University Hospital, Brasília, Federal District<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Armed Forces Hospital, Hospital das Forças Armadas, HFA, University Hospital, Brasília, Federal District<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Federal University of São Paulo, Paulista School of Medicine Clinics Hospital, São Paulo<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Clinics Hospital of the State University of Campinas, Campinas<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of São Paulo, School of Medicine Clinics Hospital, São Paulo<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of São Paulo, School of Medicine at Ribeirao Preto´s Clinics Hospital, Ribeirão Preto<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Federal University of Santa Catarina, University Hospital, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina<br />
Canada<br />
British Columbia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>B.C. Children's and Women's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, British Columbia<br />
Alberta<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta<br />
Saskatchewan<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan<br />
Manitoba<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Winnipeg General Hospital<br />
Ontario<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario (McMaster University)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario (McMaster University)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario (University of Ottawa)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Montfort Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario (University of Ottawa)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario (Queen's University)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hotel Dieu Hospital (Kingston, Ontario), Kingston, Ontario (Queen's University)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Providence Continuing Care Centre, Kingston, Ontario (Queen's University)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Victoria Hospital (London, Ontario) (University of Western Ontario)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Toronto East General Hospital (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Toronto General Hospital (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Toronto Western Hospital (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital (London, Ontario) (University of Western Ontario)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. John's Rehab Hospital, Toronto, Ontario (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Markham Stouffville Hospital, Markham, Ontario - beginning 2010 (University of Toronto)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Royal, Ottawa, Ontario (University of Ottawa)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario (University of Ottawa)<br />
Quebec<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (Université de Montréal), Montreal, Quebec<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Quebec<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>McGill University Health Centre (McGill University), Montreal, Quebec<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jewish General Hospital (McGill University), Montreal, Quebec<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Douglas Hospital, Montreal, Quebec<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec - Centre hospitalier de l'Université Laval, Laval, Quebec<br />
New Brunswick<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Saint John Regional Hospital<br />
Nova Scotia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>IWK Health Centre, Halifax<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nova Scotia Hospital, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia<br />
Newfoundland and Labrador<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre, St. John's, NL<br />
Northwest Territories<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stanton Regional Hospital, Yellowknife - partners with University of Calgary and the University of Alberta<br />
Chile<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Clínico de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile, University of Chile<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Clínico Viña del Mar, National University Andres Bello<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Clínico Instituto de Seguridad del Trabajo, in Viña del Mar<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Clínico Herminda Martin, in Chillán<br />
China<br />
Chongqing<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Chongqing Medical University Hospitals<br />
Hebei<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei<br />
Hubei<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wuhan Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Wuhan<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wuhan Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Wuhan<br />
Shanghai<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Xinhua Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1st People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3rd People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6th People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9th People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shanghai Children's Medical Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shanghai Children's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Huadong Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Eye & ENT Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University<br />
Sichuan<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sichuan University Hospitals<br />
Zhejiang<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Zhejiang Stomatology Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine<br />
Hong Kong & Macau SARs<br />
Please refer to sections for Hong Kong and Macau for university hospitals in the SARs.<br />
Colombia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Clínica Universitaria Teletón, Bogotá<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Infantil Universitario de San José, Bogotá<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital San Juan de Dios, Bogotá<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario del Valle, Cali<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa fé, Bogotá<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario de la Samaritana (HUS), Bogotá<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario San Ignacio (HUSI), Bogotá<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paul (HUSVP), Medellín<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario de Santander, Bucaramanga<br />
Denmark<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Odense Universitetshospital, Odense<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Århus Universitetshospital, Skejby, Skejby<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Århus Universitetshospital, Århus Sygehus, Århus<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Århus Universitetshospital, Psykiatrisk Hospital i Århus, Århus<br />
Egypt<br />
Cairo<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ain Shams University Hospital (El-Demerdash Hospital)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kasr El Aini Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>National Cancer Institute Egypt<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Theodor Bilharz Research Institute<br />
Alexandria<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alexandria University Hospitals<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Suzanne Mubarak Regional Centre for Women's Health and Development<br />
Assiut<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Assiut UniversityHospital<br />
Beni-Suef<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Beni-Suef University Hospital<br />
Fayoum<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fayoum University Hospital<br />
Ismailia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Suez Canal University Hospital<br />
Kafrelsheikh<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kafrelsheikh University Hospital<br />
Mansoura<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mansoura University Hospital<br />
Minufiya<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Minufiya University Hospital<br />
Sohag<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>South Valley University Hospital<br />
Tanta<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tanta University Hospital<br />
Finland<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Helsinki University Central Hospital (HYKS), University of Helsinki<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kuopio University Hospital (KYS), University of Kuopio<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Oulu University Hospital (OYS), University of Oulu<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tampere University Hospital (TAYS), University of Tampere<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Turku University Hospital (TYKS), University of Turku<br />
France<br />
Main page: :Category:Teaching hospitals in France<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hôpital civil, Strasbourg<br />
Germany<br />
Baden-Württemberg<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsmedizin Mannheim, Mannheim<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Tübingen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Ulm<br />
Bavaria<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Klinikum der Universität München, (Klinikum Großhadern) Munich<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rechts der Isar Hospital, Munich<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg<br />
Berlin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin:<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF), Berlin-Steglitz<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Campus Berlin-Buch (CBB), Berlin-Buch<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Charité Campus Mitte (CCM), Berlin-Mitte<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Campus Virchow-Klinikum (CVK), Berlin-Wedding<br />
Hamburg<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)). Hamburg<br />
Hesse<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Campus Gießen, Gießen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Campus Marburg, Marburg<br />
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Greifswald University Hospital, University of Greifswald, Greifswald<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Rostock, Rostock<br />
Lower Saxony<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Göttingen, Göttingen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover<br />
North Rhine-Westphalia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Aachen, Aachen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospitals of the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Herne and Bad Oeynhausen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bergmannsheil University Hospitals, Bochum<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Bonn<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Köln, Cologne<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster<br />
Rhineland-Palatinate<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Klinikum der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz<br />
Saarland<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg<br />
Saxony<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Dresden, Dresden<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig<br />
Saxony-Anhalt<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Berufsgenossenschaftliche Kliniken Bergmannstrost Halle, University of Halle-Wittenberg<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Halle, Halle, University of Halle-Wittenberg<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg<br />
Schleswig-Holstein<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Campus Lübeck, Lübeck<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Campus Kiel, Kiel<br />
Thuringia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitätsklinikum Jena, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena<br />
Ghana<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences, Kumasi<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Central Regional Hospital, University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences, Cape Coast<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tamale Regional Teaching Hospital, University for Development Studies School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tamale<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital, University of Cape CoastCape Coast<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & TechnologyKumasi<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital, University of GhanaLegon<br />
Hong Kong<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital at Sandy Bay<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Grantham Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kowloon Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MacLehose Medical Rehabilitation Centre<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Pokfulam<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ruttonjee Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tsan Yuk Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tung Wah Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tang Shiu Kin Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tung Wah Eastern Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Queen Elizabeth Hospital<br />
Iceland<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Landspítali University Hospital, Reykjavík<br />
Indonesia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dr. Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dr. Soetomo Hospital, Surabaya<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dr. Kariadi Hospital, Semarang<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dr. Hassan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung<br />
Ireland<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cork University Hospital, Cork<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mercy University Hospital, Cork<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital Galway, Galway<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St Patrick's University Hospital, Dublin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mercy University Hospital, Cork#<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital Limerick, Limerick<br />
Israel<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hadassah Medical Centers, in Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus, Jerusalem<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shaarei Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bikur Holim Medical Center, Jerusalem<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Soroka Hospital, Beer Sheva<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center, Tzrifin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rambam Hospital, Haifa<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bnei Zion medical Center, Haifa<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ziv Medical Center, Safed<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wolfson Medical Center, Holon<br />
Italy<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti Umberto I - GM Lancisi - G Salesi di Ancona - Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi - University of Bologna, Bologna<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ospedale SS. Annunziata di Chieti - University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti loc. Scalo<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Ferrara Arcispedale Sant'Anna - University of Ferrara, Cona<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda ospedaliero-universitaria Careggi - University of Florence, Florence<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>IRCCS-Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria "San Martino" - University of Genoa, Genoa<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>San Raffaele Hospital, Milan<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda ospedaliera - Universitaria Policlinico di Modena - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda Ospedaliera San Gerardo - University of Milano Bicocca, Monza<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria San Luigi Gonzaga - University of Turin, Orbassano<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda Ospedaliero- Universitaria di Parma - University of Parma<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Policlinico San Matteo - University of Pavia, Pavia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana - University of Pisa, Pisa<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Policlinico Universitario Campus Bío-Medico -Universita' Campus Bío-Medico, Rome- Trigoria<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Policlinico Umberto I - University of Rome "la Sapienza", Rome<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Policlinico Tor Vergata - University of Tor Vergata, Rome<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese - Ospedale Santa Maria alle Scotte - University of Siena<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda Ospedaliero - Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti Trieste - University of Trieste, Trieste<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>L'Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria San Giovanni Battista di Torino - University of Turin, Turin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Santa Maria della Misericordia - University of Udine, Udine<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona - University of Verona, Verona<br />
Japan<br />
Hokkaido<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Asahikawa Medical College Hospital w:ja:旭川医科大学附属病院<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hokkaido University Hospital w:ja:北海道大学病院<br />
Tohoku<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tohoku University Hospital w:ja:東北大学病院<br />
Kantō and Shin'etsu<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>National Defense Medical College Hospital w:ja:防衛医科大学校病院<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The University of Tokyo Hospital w:ja:東京大学医学部附属病院<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Keio University Hospital w:ja:慶應義塾大学病院<br />
Tōkai and Hokuriku<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nagoya University Hospital w:ja:名古屋大学医学部附属病院<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nagoya City University Hospital w:ja:名古屋市立大学病院<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gifu University Hospital w:ja:岐阜大学医学部附属病院<br />
Kinki<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Fukui Hospital w:ja:福井大学医学部附属病院<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Osaka University Hospital w:ja:大阪大学医学部附属病院<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Osaka University Dental Hospital w:ja:大阪大学歯学部附属病院<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Osaka City University Hospital w:ja:大阪市立大学医学部附属病院<br />
Chugoku and Shikoku<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Okayama University Hospital w:ja:岡山大学病院<br />
Kyūshū<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kyūshū University Hospital w:ja:九州大学病院<br />
Jordan<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>King Abdullah University Hospital, Irbid<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Jordan Hospital, Amman<br />
Kenya<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi<br />
Latvia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga<br />
Macau<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Macau University of Science and Technology Hospital<br />
Malaysia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital University Kebangsaan Malaysia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital University Sains Malaysia<br />
Mexico<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Universidad de Guadalajara<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital San José Tec de Monterrey, ITESM<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Centro Médico Zambrano Hellion, Monterrey ITESM<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Monterrey UANL<br />
Netherlands<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam (UvA))<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Free University Medical Center (VUMC), Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit (VUMC))<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden (University of Leiden (UL))<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Academic Hospital Maastricht (AZM), Maastricht<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Medical Center St Radboud (UMCN), Nijmegen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Erasmus MC (EUMC), Rotterdam<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Utrecht<br />
Nepal<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Tribhuvan University<br />
Nigeria<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara, Delta State [1]<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idiaraba, Lagos State<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu (OOUTH), Sagamu, Ogun State<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University College Hospital, Ibadan (UCH), Oyo State<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Teaching Hospital, Enugu (UNTH), Enugu State[1]<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, (UITH), Kwara State, [2]<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, (UMTH), Borno State<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos (JUTH), Plateau State<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, (UDUTH), Sokoto State, [3]<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Uyo Teaching Hospital Akwa-Ibom State<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Calabar<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Enugu State University Teaching Hospital Parklane Enugu<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Imo State University Teaching Hospital (IMSUTH), Orlu<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika, Zaria<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Lagos<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Port Harcourt teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife<br />
Norway<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Akershus University Hospital, Skedsmo (University of Oslo)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen (University of Bergen)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Oslo University Hospital, Oslo (University of Oslo)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aker University Hospital, Oslo (University of Oslo)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rikshospitalet, Oslo (University of Oslo)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo (University of Oslo)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø (University of Tromsø)<br />
Österreich<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Graz University Hospital - Medical University of Graz, Graz<br />
Pakistan<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ayub Teaching Hospital attached to Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aga Khan University Hospital attached to Aga Khan University, Karachi<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Baqai University Hospital, Karachi<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dr. Ziauddin University Hospital, Karachi<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mayo Hospital attached to the King Edward Medical College, Lahore<br />
Philippines<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Capitol University Medical City, Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>De La Salle Health Sciences Institute, Dasmariñas City, Cavite<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fatima Medical Center, Our Lady of Fatima University, Valenzuela City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>FEU Hospital, Far Eastern University, Quezon City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Manila Central University Hospital, Caloocan City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Maria Reyna Xavier University Hospital, Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan, Cagayan de Oro<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Saint Louis University Hospital of the Sacred Heart, Baguio City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Paul University Manila - St. Paul Hospital (formerly known as Jose P. Rizal Hospital and National Medical Research Center), Cavite<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UERMMMC, University of the East, Quezon City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of the Philippines Manila - Philippine General Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila<br />
Portugal<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St John's Hospital (Hospital de São João), Porto<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Coimbra University Hospitals, Coimbra<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St Mary's Hospital (Hospital de Santa Maria), Lisboa<br />
Singapore<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>National University Hospital - Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore<br />
Spain<br />
Andalucía<br />
Almería<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Torrecárdenas.<br />
Cádiz<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Jerez de la Frontera.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital La Línea.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Puerta del Mar.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Puerto Real.<br />
Córdoba<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía de Córdoba.<br />
Granada<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Clínico San Cecilio.<br />
Huelva<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Juan Ramón Jimenez.<br />
Jaén<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Complejo Hospitalario de Jaén.<br />
Málaga<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Carlos Haya.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Clínico de Málaga.<br />
Navarra<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Facultad de Medicina.<br />
Sevilla<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital virgen del rocio.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Virgen de Valme.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Virgen de Macarena.<br />
Madrid<br />
Autonomous University of Madrid<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Centro Superior de Estudios Universitarios La Salle.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Enfermería de la Comunidad de Madrid<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Enfermería de la Cruz Roja<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Enfermería de la Fundación Jiménez Díaz<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Enfermería La Paz<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Enfermería Puerta de Hierro<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fisioterapia de la ONCE<br />
Murcia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario Santa María del Rosell.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital General Universitario Reina Sofía de Murcia.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hospital Morales Meseguer.<br />
Somalia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bardera Polytechnic, Bardera<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Edna Maternity Hospital, Hargeisa<br />
South Africa<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pretoria Academic Hospital, Pretoria (renamed Steve Biko Hospital in 2008)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tygerberg Hospital, Bellville<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Johannesburg<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universitas Hospital, Bloemfontein<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dr George Mukhari Hospital, Ga-Rankuwa<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, Mthatha<br />
Sweden<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Norrland's University Hospital, Umeå<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Örebro University Hospital, Örebro<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Skåne University Hospital, Lund (previously Lund University Hospital, Lund and Malmö University Hospital, Malmö)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Linköping University Hospital, Linköping<br />
Switzerland<br />
See also: List of hospitals in Switzerland<br />
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The main building of the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV).<br />
There are five university hospitals in Switzerland:<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of Basel (USB), Basel<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of Bern (Inselspital), Bern<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), Geneva<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), Lausanne<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of Zurich (USZ), Zurich<br />
Taiwan<br />
Taipei<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>National Taiwan University Hospital - National Taiwan University<br />
Hualien<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital - Tzu Chi University<br />
Thailand<br />
Bangkok<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital - Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Phramongkutklao Hospital - Phramongkutklao College of Medicine<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ramathibodi Hospital - Mahidol University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Siriraj Hospital - Mahidol University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vajira Hospital - Faculty of Medicine Vajira Hospital, University of Bangkok Metropolis<br />
Chiang Mai<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Chiang Mai University Hospital - Chiang Mai University<br />
Chon Buri<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Burapha University Hospital - Burapha University<br />
Hat Yai<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Prince of Songkla Hospital - Prince of Songkla University<br />
Khon Kaen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Srinagarindra Hospital - Khon Kaen University<br />
Nakhon Nayok<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Medical Center - Srinakharinwirot University<br />
Pathum Thani<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thammasat University Hospital - Thammasat University<br />
Phitsanulok<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Naresuan University Hospital - Naresuan University<br />
United Kingdom<br />
Aberdeen<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aberdeen Royal Infirmary - University of Aberdeen<br />
Birmingham<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital Birmingham - University of Birmingham Medical School, University of Birmingham<br />
Bradford<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bradford Royal Infirmary - Leeds School of Medicine, University of Leeds, University of Bradford<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Luke's Hospital, Bradford - Leeds School of Medicine, University of Leeds, University of Bradford<br />
Brighton<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal Sussex County Hospital - Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, University of Brighton<br />
Bristol<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Frenchay Hospital - Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Southmead Hospital - Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bristol Royal Infirmary - Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol<br />
Cambridge<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Addenbrooke's Hospital - Cambridge Clinical School, University of Cambridge<br />
Cardiff<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of Wales - Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Children's Hospital for Wales - Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Dental Hospital, Cardiff - Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital Llandough - Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff University<br />
Coventry<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital Coventry - Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick<br />
Cumbria<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cumberland Infirmary - Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>West Cumberland Hospital - Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University<br />
Durham<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of North Durham - Newcastle University, Durham University<br />
Dundee<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ninewells Hospital - University of Dundee<br />
Edinburgh<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh - University of Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Western General Hospital - University of Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St John's Hospital, Livingston - University of Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh<br />
Exeter<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital - Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, University of Plymouth<br />
Gateshead<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University<br />
Glasgow<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Glasgow Royal Infirmary - University of Glasgow<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stobhill Hospital - University of Glasgow<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Victoria Infirmary - University of Glasgow<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Southern General Hospital - University of Glasgow<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Western Infirmary - University of Glasgow<br />
Great Yarmouth<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>James Paget Hospital - University of East Anglia Medical School, University of East Anglia<br />
Kingston upon Hull<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hull Royal Infirmary - Hull York Medical School, University of Hull<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Castle Hill Hospital - Hull York Medical School, University of Hull<br />
Leeds<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St James's University Hospital, Leeds - University of Leeds<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leeds General Infirmary - University of Leeds<br />
Leicester<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leicester Royal Infirmary - Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leicester General Hospital - Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Glenfield Hospital - Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester<br />
Liverpool<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Liverpool<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alder Hey Children's Hospital, University of Liverpool<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, University of Liverpool<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Liverpool Women's Hospital, University of Liverpool<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal Liverpool University Hospital, University of Liverpool<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Broadgreen Hospital, University of Liverpool<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Liverpool<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University of Liverpool<br />
London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>King's College Hospital - King's College London, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Thomas' Hospital - King's College London, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Guy's Hospital - King's College London, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University College Hospital - UCL Medical School, University of London; UCL Partners<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital Lewisham - King's College London, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal Free Hospital - UCL Medical School, University of London; UCL Partners<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Whittington Hospital - UCL Medical School, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Great Ormond Street Hospital - UCL Medical School, University of London; UCL Partners<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Charing Cross Hospital - Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Chelsea and Westminster Hospital - Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Mary's Hospital (London) - Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St George's Hospital - St. George's, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal London Hospital - Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Bartholomew's Hospital - Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Newham University Hospital - Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Whipps Cross University Hospital - Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mayday University Hospital - University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>West Middlesex University Hospital - Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup - University of London<br />
Manchester<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Manchester Royal Infirmary - University of Manchester<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>North Manchester General Hospital - University of Manchester<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of South Manchester - University of Manchester<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Salford Royal - University of Manchester<br />
Newcastle upon Tyne<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal Victoria Infirmary - Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Freeman Hospital-Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University<br />
Norwich<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital - University of East Anglia Medical School, University of East Anglia<br />
Northumberland<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wansbeck General Hospital - Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University<br />
Nottingham<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Queen's Medical Centre - University of Nottingham<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nottingham City Hospital - University of Nottingham<br />
Orpington<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Princess Royal Hospital - Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, University of Brighton<br />
Oxford<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>John Radcliffe Hospital - Oxford University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Churchill Hospital - Oxford University<br />
Plymouth<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Derriford Hospital - Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, University of Plymouth<br />
Sheffield<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal Hallamshire Hospital - University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Northern General Hospital - University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sheffield Children's Hospital - University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University<br />
Southampton<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Southampton General Hospital - Southampton Medical School, University of Southampton<br />
South Shields<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>South Tyneside District Hospital - Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University<br />
Stoke-on-Trent<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of North Staffordshire - Keele University Medical School, Keele University<br />
Swansea<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Morriston Hospital - Swansea University School of Medicine, Swansea University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Singleton Hospital - Swansea University School of Medicine, Swansea University<br />
Teesside<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bishop Auckland Hospital - Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Darlington Memorial Hospital - Newcastle University Medical School, Durham University, Newcastle University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>James Cook University Hospital - University of Teesside, Newcastle University Medical School, Durham University, Newcastle University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of Hartlepool - Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospital of North Tees- Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University<br />
Truro<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Royal Cornwall Hospital - Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, University of Plymouth<br />
Wrexham<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>North Wales Regional Hospital - Wrexham Medical Institute, Glyndwr University<br />
York<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>York Hospital - University of York<br />
United States<br />
Alabama<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Alabama Hospitals (UAB), Birmingham<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of South Alabama Medical Center, Mobile<br />
Arizona<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona<br />
Arkansas<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/UAMS Medical Center, Little Rock<br />
California<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>San Francisco General Hospital (UCSF), San Francisco<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UCI Medical Center, Orange<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UCSD Medical Center, San Diego<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco<br />
Colorado<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora- Suhabthan<br />
Connecticut<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UConn Health Center, Farmington<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven<br />
District of Columbia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C.<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C.<br />
Florida<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shands at the University of Florida, University of Florida, Gainesville<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shands Jacksonville, University of Florida, Jacksonville<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Miami Hospital, University of Miami, Miami<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Baptist Hospital of Miami, Florida International University, Miami<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tampa General Hospital, University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa<br />
Georgia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Emory University Hospital, Atlanta<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Grady Memorial Hospital, staffed by Emory & Morehouse Medical Schools, Atlanta<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Emory University Hospital-Midtown, Atlanta<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Memorial Medical Center, Savannah<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Medical College of Georgia, Augusta<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon<br />
Illinois<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rush University Medical Center, Chicago<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria<br />
Indiana<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis<br />
Iowa<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City<br />
Kansas<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City<br />
Kentucky<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Albert B. Chandler Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Eastern State Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Good Samaritan Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kentucky Children's Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville<br />
Louisiana<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, New Orleans<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ochsner Medical Center (Greater New Orleans)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tulane Medical Center at New Orleans, New Orleans<br />
Maryland<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda<br />
Massachusetts<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Boston Medical Center, Boston<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tufts Medical Center, Boston<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester<br />
Michigan<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Detroit Medical Center, Detroit<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sparrow Hospital, Michigan State University, Lansing<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor<br />
Minnesota<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mayo Medical School, Rochester<br />
Mississippi<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson<br />
Missouri<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Saint Louis University Hospital, St. Louis<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Columbia Regional Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Missouri Children's Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Missouri Hospital<br />
Nebraska<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha<br />
Nevada<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Medical Center, Las Vegas<br />
New Hampshire<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon<br />
New Jersey<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hoboken University Medical Center, Hoboken<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cooper University Hospital, Camden<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kennedy University Hospitals, (Cherry Hill, Stratford, Washington Twp.)<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Saint Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The University Hospital, Newark<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Medical Center at Princeton, Princeton<br />
New Mexico<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque<br />
New York<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Albany Medical Center Hospital, Albany<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bellevue Hospital Center, New York City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, New York<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nassau University Medical Center, Nassau County<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>New York University Medical Center, New York City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York City<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stony Brook University Medical Center, at SUNY Stony Brook<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Westchester Medical Center University Hospital, at Valhalla, New York<br />
North Carolina<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Duke University Medical Center, Durham<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vidant Medical Center, Greenville<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem<br />
Ohio<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Ohio State University Medical Center, Ohio State University, Columbus<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Cincinnati Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Toledo Medical Center, University of Toledo, Toledo<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland<br />
Oklahoma<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Oklahoma State University Medical Center, Tulsa<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City<br />
Oregon<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>OHSU Hospital, Portland<br />
Pennsylvania<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia<br />
Rhode Island<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island<br />
South Carolina<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Greenville Memorial Hospital, Greenville<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Palmetto Health Baptist Columbia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Palmetto Health Children's Hospital<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Palmetto Health South Carolina Cancer Center<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center<br />
Tennessee<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville<br />
Texas<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Health System, San Antonio<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University Medical Center - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Texas Southwestern - University Hospitals, Dallas<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston University Hospital, Galveston<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston<br />
Utah<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Utah Hospital, Salt Lake City<br />
Virginia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UVa Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond<br />
Washington<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle<br />
Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Froedtert Hospital and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin with the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison and La Crosse<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-73179396160727538822014-02-27T11:34:00.001-08:002014-02-27T11:35:16.697-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being. ~Plutarch</span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-17002782117085777042014-02-20T17:36:00.002-08:002014-02-20T17:36:14.001-08:00Cows are feeling, loving, curious and fun loving. Please don't eat them! Go Vegan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521828843814102561.post-58089791469015727532014-02-20T17:09:00.000-08:002014-02-20T17:09:15.951-08:00"We need to abolish all zoos", says Britain most famous zoo owner Damian Aspinall<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Damian Aspinall wants his own industry phased out over the next 20-30 years, saying it was wrong to keep sentient creatures as lifelong “prisoners without parole”.</span></div>
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He said: “We’ve played God once when we took animals out of the forest for zoos, so surely we can play God again and try to get some of these animals home.”</div>
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Some 80 per cent of zoo animals are not in any sense endangered, he argued, adding they were either hybrid creatures with no conservation value, or on the contraceptive pill to stop them breeding and thereby pushing up costs.<br /></div>
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<strong>Mr Aspinall, 53, said the millions of pounds spent on new enclosures could be better used breeding endangered species for a return to the wild.</strong></div>
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It is a policy he has successfully followed at his Port Lympne and Howletts wild animal parks in Kent where he says “animals come first”.</div>
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A decision to rent out nearby land to two music festivals at Port Lympne, as reported in the Sunday Express last year, was a “mistake”, he added.</div>
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The Aspinall Foundation, founded by his late father John, the famous casino tycoon and close friend of Lord Lucan, has just returned nine gorillas to the jungle in The Gabon, a moment he described as “beautiful”. </div>
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<strong>“They just walked into the forest and started exploring,” he said.</strong></div>
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“If you’re a true conservationist and you truly believe in nature, the ultimate goal is you don’t need zoos.</div>
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<strong>“They always throw education back at you though, but that’s total and utter nonsense.</strong></div>
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“In the next 20-30 years, it would be a lovely goal to see zoos phased out or if they’re not, to see them truly doing what I believe is true conservation work.</div>
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“What I mean by that is that they only keep truly endangered animals.</div>
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“Zoos are stuck in a trap because they need to get the public in because otherwise they will go bust.</div>
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“But truthfully, if zoos did what was best for the animals, not what’s best for the public, they would be very different places.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“I absolutely feel sick in my stomach that zoos do animal shows.“I come from a point of view where no animal should be here to entertain us.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<strong>“We’re supposed to be the intelligent species: surely we’re above having animals entertain our children.</strong></div>
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“What we’re doing is culturalising our children to say it’s OK that man is the dominant species. “It’s just wrong. We need to de-culturalise the public and phase zoos out.</div>
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“There’s role for Government in this.” </div>
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However, the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums said its members already carry out “significant” conservation work in the wild.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Captive populations can be used as advocates for conservation and environmental issues by raising awareness, and could one day be returned to their natural habitat, should this be appropriate,” </span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Photographer Torgeir Berge is Tinni’s guardian and has watched the development of his dog’s incredible relationship with this wild fox.</strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Torgeir and his writing partner Berit Helberg are planning on publishing a book for children and adults full of fairy tales and Berge’s beautiful photos. </strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These two must have been destined for friendship!</strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The author and the photographer agree that some of the proceeds of the book will be donated to an organization that combats fur practices that harm animals like Sniffer.</strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As Helberg writes, “in this way we can be the voice of the animals.”</strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One thing is abundantly clear: Sniffer and Tinni LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They could talk for hours.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They have similar interests (traipsing, jumping, stick carrying, hanging out with each other).</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Berge explains that while Tinni and Sniffer might seem like an unlikely duo, they are actually very much the same. </span></strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And anyone who looks at these pictures can see the affection and understanding that they share.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If only humans could all be as kind and accepting as this pair.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Love is love.</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And when you’re the best of friends, the rest of the world stands still.</span></strong></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/real-life-fox-and-the-hound-best-friends-will-melt-your-hear" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">HTTP://WWW.BUZZFEED.COM/SUMMERANNE/REAL-LIFE-FOX-AND-THE-HOUND-BEST-FRIENDS-WILL-MELT-YOUR-HEAR</a></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">Here is a list of local Org's in India. Go to their facebook page and leave a comment, asking them to relocate the tiger before it's too late. We have only hours/days left.</span></h1>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/helpanimalsindia" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">https://www.facebook.com/helpanimalsindia</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/people4animals" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">https://www.facebook.com/people4animals</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PETAIndia" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">https://www.facebook.com/PETAIndia</a><br />
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