Weekly Roundup – December 6, 2009

• From the Smithsonian, “Crawling Around with Baltimore Street Rats” (not about “The Wire”!)
• P. Michael Conn at The Scientist explaining why offering animal law courses at law school is a threat to the continued use of animals in research; responses can be found here and here; and a new paper posted to PhilPapers by Robert Bass called “Lives in the Balance: Utilitarianism and Animal Research”
• Book sale at Columbia University Press, including the animal studies catalogue
• Unprecedented takeover of the Toronto Humane Society by the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (more)
• Petri dish pork
• Recordings of the 2009 animal law conference at Lewis & Clark Law School
• PETA listed as a terrorist organization and a petition in support of sociology graduate student Scott DeMuth, who has been charged under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act for refusing to breach the confidentiality of his research informants