Animal Cruelty

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Oreo, Dog That Surivived Roof Toss, Euthanized

AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — A young pit bull mix that survived being thrown off the sixth-floor roof of a Brooklyn building still was not fit to live because of ...

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Sharon McDonough's Home Was An Animal 'Concentration Camp': Son

AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

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SELDEN, N.Y. — Authorities are investigating whether any of the more than 20 animal carcasses found in the backyard of a Long Island home are th...

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Eating Animals: A Book to Digest

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Books, Food Politics, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Foer's taken a three-year respite from writing fiction to probe the question of whether we should eat animals -- with this research and writing task triggered by his meditation on what to feed his first child.

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Sharon McDonough Found With 20 Dead Dogs Buried In Yard: Officials

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

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SELDEN, N.Y. — Authorities in New York say a woman who had about 20 dead dogs buried in her backyard on Long Island faces a misdemeanor animal c...

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Rascell Williams: Man Charged With Videotaping Cat Torture

AP | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Kitten Torture Video, Upstate Man Kitten Torture, Joanne Cichy, Rascell Williams, Rascell Williams Kitten Torture, Kitten Torture, New York, New York News

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Police are accusing a 22-year-old upstate New York man of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt and making...

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What's Next For Jonathan Safran Foer And Eating Animals?

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

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Beginning the week of October 26, 2009, we ran a series of reviews on HuffPost Books on Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. It was a surp...

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Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer's New Book Asks Why Don't We Eat Pets?

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.

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The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan

Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

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Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Controversial New Book, Eating Animals

Aaron Gross | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

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Over the next weeks Huffington Post will feature a diverse range of responses to Jonathan Safran Foer's controversial new work of non-fiction, Eating Animals.

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New Zealand Bunny Toss: Town Is Outraged That It's Cancelled (VIDEO)

Posted 10.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Animals, Rabbit Toss, Bunny, Animal Cruelty, Rabbit Throw, Bunny Toss, Animal Rights, Pig Race, New Zealand, Rabbits, Bunnies, Green News

A North Canterbury town in New Zealand has canceled its historical dead rabbit toss and was greeted with fierce opposition from the locals. WATCH: ...

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Animal Anti-Cruelty Legislation Awaits Governor's Action

Pedro Nava | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Cats, Animal Rights, Animal Abusers, World Animal Federation, Governor Schwarzenegger, Animal Cruelty Legislation California, Governor California, Michael Vick Dogfighting, Dogs, Humane Society, Assemblyman Pedro Navo, California State Assembly, Pedro Nava, Politics News

There is an uncontroverted link between animal abuse and domestic violence, elder abuse, and child abuse. Animal abusers have little respect for human life.

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Supreme Court Hears First Amendment Case In Selling Of Dogfight Videos

The New York Times | ADAM LIPTAK | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Animal Cruelty, Arguments, First Amendment, Dogfighting, Cockfighting, Free Speech, Crush Videos, Bullfighting, Pate, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wanted to know if Congress could ban a "Human Sacrifice Channel" on cable television. Justice Ruth Bader G...

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Justice Scalia Stands Up For "People Who Like Dogfighting"

Posted 10.06.2009 | Impact

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Supreme Court justices weighed arguments over a 10-year federal law that bans the creation and sale of commercially available videos that depict graph...

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First Amendment Under Siege

The Huffington Post | Judy Platt | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: US v Stevens, Animal Cruelty, Pit Bull Fights, Pit Bulls, Crush Videos, Supreme Court, First Amendment, President Clinton, Books News

I'm in hot water again at home. You try explaining to a family that loves all creatures great and small that you're defending the rights of a man sen...

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Supreme Court To Hear Animal Sex Fetish Case; "Crush Videos," Dogfighting Footage May Be Treated Like Child Porn

Newsweek | Krista Gesaman | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ruling, Animal Cruelty, Supreme Court, Pets, U.S. v. Stevens, Child Pornography, Kittens, Free Speech, Crush Videos, Pornography, Mice, Animal-Torture, Animal Sex Fetish, Fetish, Dogfighting, Circuit Court, Obscenity, Kiddie Porn, Politics News

Kittens, brutality, fetish videos, and dogfighting--these aren't the elements of a twisted cable-television show; they're just some of the factors in ...

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The Feminist's Dilemma

Ari Solomon | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Land O'Lakes, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Peta, Cows, Dairy, Health, Vegan, Green News, Feminism, Green News

I'm a proud feminist, as anyone who cares about the plight of women on our planet should be. In many parts of the world, women are still treated as pr...

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PETA Video: Cows Suffer On Land O'Lakes-Supplying Farm (VIDEO)

Posted 10.09.2009 | Impact

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PETA representatives have released a video comprised of footage taken during an undercover investigation of a Pennsylvania dairy farm that contracts t...

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Reflections on The National Parks Series and Reform

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Cruelty, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Ken Burns, Pbs, National Parks, Factory Farms, Humane Society of the United States, Animals, Green News

Over time, I am confident that most of the people who stand in the way of moral progress will be forgotten, just like most of the individuals who stood in the way of John Muir and Steven Mather.

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Duct-Taped Cat: Philadelphia Man Arrested, Accused Of Wrapping Cat With Duct Tape

The Associated Press | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home

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PHILADELPHIA (AP)- Investigators say a Philadelphia teenager wrapped a cat in duct tape, put it in a shopping bag and left it in a neighbor's backyard...

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Dogfighting Ring Busted At Suburban Day Care (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago

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SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES Cook County sheriffs raided a suburban day care Tuesday after learning it was being used as a front for what officers describ...

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Down With The Truth

Ari Solomon | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Down Pillows, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Animals, Green News

The next time you buy a new comforter or a warm jacket or a sleeping bag or some throw pillows, think first. There's a plethora of amazing alternatives to down.

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Baby Seals Clubbed To Death (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

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Animal rights activists have released this shocking footage of baby seals being clubbed to death in Namibia. An estimated 80,000 seal pups are clubbed...

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International House of Pain for Egg-Laying Hens

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 09.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Humane Society of the United States, Factory Farming, Humane Society, Factory Farms, Food, Battery Cages, Animals, Green News

Animal welfare should be part of the Corporate Social Responsibility portfolio for any major corporation, and increasingly, companies are heeding the call.

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