Tag Archives: animal rights

I must admit, there is a great deal of nostalgia that overwhelms me when I walk into the Beacon Hill Children’s Farm. When I was a kid, this was a magical place where I would watch and get to engage with other animals that I had only ever seen on …

Every year, Canada’s universities conduct thousands of experiments on animals including pigs, mice, cats, rabbits, goats, monkeys, even wild-caught songbirds. In 2012, the number of animals used by the University of British Columbia – the 2nd largest biomedical campus in Canada – rose to a staggering 227,362. Much of this …