Animal Rights Activists

Does This Animal Deserve Rights?

Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Killer Whales, Video, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Marine Mammals, Dolphins, Marine Mammal Rights, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Orcas, Animals, Whales, Green News

By Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer: VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Orcas mourn their dead, right whales have accents and dolphins like to ...

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Famous Faces Help Boost Animal Rights In China

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Yao Ming, Animal Rights Activists, Video, Animal Rights, Bear Bile, China Environmentalism, Animal Rights China, Shark Finning, Animals, Yao Ming Activism, Ap, China, Green News

BEIJING (AP) — Celebrities like basketball star Yao Ming have helped energize China's animal rights movement by speaking out against shark fin soup ...

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Naked PETA Protestors Disguised As Corpses 'Wouldn't be Caught Dead Wearing Animal Skins'

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Video, Alabama, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Peta, Peta Protest, Protest, Montgomery, Weird Photos & Videos, Animals in the News, Weird News News

Naked corpses on the streets of Montgomery, Ala., might mean the long-feared zombie uprising has begun and we poor humans might as well just prepare f...

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Federal Agency's Horse Castration Plans On Hold

AP | By MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Horse Activists, Video, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Stallions, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wild Horses, Blm Stallion Castration, Stallion Castration, Horses, Nevada, Horse Castration, Animals, Castration, Green News

RENO, Nev. -- Federal land managers have agreed to postpone their precedent-setting plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern Nevada pend...

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After Recent Collapses, Ban On Carriage Horses Gains Momentum

Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Animal Rights Activists, Horse Carriage Ban, Animal Rights, Mayor Bloomberg, New York City Tourism, Ny News, Aspca, City Council, New York Tourism, Horse Carriages, New York News

Animal rights advocates are gaining momentum in the fight against the city's tourism industry as the call for a ban on carriage horses makes headway. ...

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Live From Little Guantanamo

Daniel McGowan | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Earth Liberation Front, If a Tree Falls, Animal Rights Activists, Films, If a Tree Falls Documentary, Slidepollajax, Green, Environment, Environmentalism, Green Living, Green News

The film, to me, was a way to challenge the narrative the prosecution and media put out about us. My hope was that people would be able to hear my own thoughts and version of events instead of accepting the mainstream media version, which was exceedingly shallow.

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Why Is Georgetown Law Helping to Promote Cruelty to Animals?

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Factory Farms, Humane Society of the United States, Animal Cruelty, Slaughterhouses, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Pig Slaughter, Pig Slaughterhouses, Green News

Every year in the U.S., the pork industry estimates that hundreds of thousands of pigs arrive at slaughterhouses crippled and in so much pain that they are unable to stand. It is unconscionable that federal law does not require that we end their agony.

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Activists Hate Foie Gras Donuts, Protest Restaurant

Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Animal Rights Activists, Foie Gras Donuts, Animal Rights, Bedford Stuyvesant, Foie Gras, New York Restaurants, Hudson Valley Foie Gras, Do or Dine, NY Restaurants, New York News

Vegan blogger Annie Hartnett is so outraged by Brooklyn restaurant Do Or Dine's foie gras donuts, that she's started a petition in protest. "Foie g...

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South Korea Reportedly Buries 1.4 Million Pigs Alive

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Rights Activists, Swine Disease, Food and Mouth Disease, Animal Rights, South Korea, Peta, South Korea Pigs, Swine, Fmb, World News

South Korea's decision to bury 1.4 million pigs alive in an effort to curb the spread of the highly contagious foot and mouth disease (FMD) has sparke...

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New Dog Breeding Laws Raise The Bar For Animal Rights

Wall Street Journal | STEPHANIE SIMON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Animals, Humane Society, Dog Breeding, Animal Laws, Dog Breeding Laws, Dogs, Green News

Pushed by animal-rights activists, lawmakers in more than a dozen states have enacted restrictions on dog breeders in the past two years. [...] This ...

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Lion Burger Served For World Cup: Purveyor Has Done Time For Tiger & Leopard Meat

CNNMoney.com | Annalyn Censky, Staff Reporter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lions, Lion Burger, Endangered Species, World Cup Lion Burger, Protected Species, World Cup Food, World Cup 2010, World Cup, Il Vinaio, Liger, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Peta, Meat, Lion Burgers, Lion Meat, Video, UK Sport, Food News

The internet has been bubbling all day on word of a restaurant in Mesa, Arizona serving a World Cup-inspired Lion Burger. The story was first reporte...

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Naked Animal Rights Activists Rally Against Bullfighting In Madrid (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Madrid, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Bullfighting, Unesco, Bullfighting Culture, Spain, Poll, Bullfighting Madrid, Animals, Video, Green News

Animal rights activists gathered in Madrid's central square to protest bullfighting, wearing nothing but fake blood and forming S.O.S. with their bodi...

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Avalanche Study That Would Bury Pigs In Snow Canceled After Animal Rights Groups Protest

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Avalanche Study Pigs, Avalanche, Animals, Avalanche Study, Peter Paal, Austrain Alps, Green News

VIENNA - Scientists say they will no longer conduct avalanche experiments monitoring the deaths of pigs buried in snow, after animal rights groups pro...

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'Animal Collective' Protests Seal Clubbing (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seals, Animal Activism, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Peta, Animal Collective, Seal Clubbing, Video, Green News

The members of the band Animal Collective recently joined forces with PETA to take a stand against Canada's seal slaughter. In the video below the tri...

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Japanese Town In 'The Cove' Setting Dolphins Free

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dolphin Hunt, Animal Rights Activists, Japan, Dolphins, The Cove, Dolphin Slaughter, The Cove Movie, Green News

TOKYO — The Japanese town chronicled in the award-winning film "The Cove" for its annual dolphin hunt that turns coastal waters red with blood h...

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Novartis: CEO's Mother's Ashes Stolen By Animal Rights Militants

AP | THOMAS BRUNNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animals, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Health, Novartis, Novartis AG, Animal Rights, Novartis Ceo, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights Militants, Switzerland, Daniel Vasella, Daniel Vasella Ashes, World News

BERN, Switzerland — Drug maker Novartis AG said Tuesday that animal rights activists have stolen the ashes of its CEO's mother and set fire to h...

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Animal Rights 4 Guilty Of Terror Spree

The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Terrorists, Hungtingdon Life Sciences, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Animal Rights Blackmail, Cambridgeshire, Animal Rights Four, Animals, Animal Rights Guilty, Animal Rights Huntingdon Life Sciences, World News

Four animal rights activists face prison sentences after being found guilty of orchestrating a blackmail and terror campaign intended to close down th...

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