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LIVEKINDLY
April 29, 2018
A 13-year-old Canadian boy, Mackenzie Clark, has been honored with a humanitarian award for his work for animal rights. Grade 8 student, Clark, has raised over $16,000 for his local animal welfare organization – Brandon Humane Society. The award was presented to Clark by the Manitoba TeachersÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
April 27, 2018
Then, Zoe Rosenberg learned about Berkeley-based Direct Action Everywhere, an international animal rights group that uses nonviolent direct action tactics toward the cause of "total animal liberation," described on the group's website as the idea "that every sentient being deserves the same safety,Ãâà...
LIVEKINDLY
April 27, 2018
Academy Award-nominated vegan actor James Cromwell, who played the farmer in the 1995 movie “Babe,” has appeared in a new public service announcement for animal rights organization PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). The video opens with Cromwell sitting poised against aÃâà...
The Herald
April 27, 2018
They now view animal rights groups as racist and desktop “conservationists” who get false information about elephants in Africa through the social media and fake news outlets. They increasingly view these conservationists as committing punishable environmental crimes. They have become the AfricanÃâà...
Boing Boing
April 26, 2018
Moby is selling more than 100 vintage synthesizers and a slew of other musical equipment to benefit the animal rights group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. His Reverb marketplace store opens tomorrow, April 26. “This is the equipment I've used to make all my records,” Moby said. “I haveÃâà...
KNSS
April 26, 2018
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals or PETA, is offering a $5-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in the beating death of a Wichita man's dog during a burglary. On Sunday, Apr. 22nd Robert Miller returned to his northwest Wichita home to find his home hadÃâà...
Boulder Daily Camera
April 25, 2018
One of the people arrested is the cofounder of Direct Action Everywhere, an animal rights group whose members have been previously arrested protesting at Whole Foods locations in Boulder. Boulder ... Hsiung, 36, is a cofounder and organizer with Direct Action Everywhere, an animal rights organization.
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
April 24, 2018
In a live video shared on the Facebook page of the animal rights activism group Direct Action Everywhere, Rosenberg appeared to jump over pens at the university's processing center before chaining herself to a gate, blocking workers from bringing a cow in a trailer into the unit. "I'm here today becauseÃâà...
KYMA
April 17, 2018
The man accused of killing a nine-week-old puppy for urinating inside his home was in court Tuesday morning. 31-year-old Jonathan Canda Torres was arraigned and formally charged on Tuesday morning at El Centro Courthouse. A local animal rights group was there as well. Animal Rights AdvocateÃâà...
Wink News
April 12, 2018
An animal rights activist group released videos Thursday of what they claim is the worst case of alleged animal abuse in the United States. Animal Recovery Mission, or ARM, held a press conference regarding their undercover investigations into several farms in Lee County. WINK News chose not to showÃâà...
The Guardian
April 8, 2018
Animal welfare groups say shocking conditions shown in footage of the Australian live export ship Awassi Express in which more than 2,000 sheep died are not uncommon and have been repeatedly reported to the federal regulator. The ship was due to leave Fremantle with 65,000 sheep and 250 cattle onÃâà...
Newsweek
April 6, 2018
Updated |The identity of the suspect who allegedly opened fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday has revealed a bizarre social media user with a hatred of YouTube and a love for animals. But animal rights and welfare organizations claim to hardly know her, and there's no indication that she was aÃâà...
iNews
April 4, 2018
Nasim Aghdam had garnered a reputation as a campaigner for animal rights on the social media platform YouTube. But key animal rights group PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, sought to distance itself on Wednesday from the actions of the 39-year-old YouTube gunwoman. In a statementÃâà...
The Independent
April 3, 2018
A leading animal rights group has received 550 reports of illegal hunts in the British countryside since the start of the season last autumn. ... “The good news is the world is changing – advances in smart phone video cameras, new monitoring groups on Facebook, and the development of our AnimalÃâà...
Chicago Reader
March 30, 2018
But animal activists and organizations like the Humane League say those mandates fall short of commitments made by 100 other restaurants and companies such as Burger King, Sonic, and Subway, and fails to address their biggest concern about chicken production: birds bred to quickly grow to abnormalÃâà...
LIVEKINDLY
March 30, 2018
Although the event appears to speak primarily about animal rights in regard to pets like cats and dogs, a growing number of people are becoming concerned with the rights of farm animals as well. Earlier this year Canadian animal rights group Animal Justice launched “Paw & Order”, a podcast thatÃâà...
The Nation
March 21, 2018
Making the plea were the Save Elephant Foundation, SOS Animals Thailand, the Hope Thailand, A Call For Animal Rights Thailand, Thai Love Animals, the Man That Rescued Dogs, Pac Pattaya, Dog Nation, Soi Dogs Matter and Watchdog Thailand. An official at the Hua Hin Livestock Office, speaking onÃâà...
Cowichan Valley Citizen
March 21, 2018
The recently formed “United for Paws” group will hold a rally on March 25 to make a stand against animal abuse and neglect in the Cowichan Valley. The group had planned a peaceful protest on April 3 at the Duncan Courthouse as Duncan's Anderson Joe and Melissa Tooshley appear in court to answerÃâà...
Wisconsin State Farmer
March 21, 2018
State officials have designated portions of three northern Michigan counties as "potential high-risk areas" for bovine tuberculosis. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development applied the label to parts of Cheboygan, Iosco and Presque Isle counties. The move came after fourÃâà...
The Nation
March 21, 2018
TEN animal-rights groups and other animal lovers will rally outside the head offices of the Department of Livestock Development (DLD) in Bangkok at 1pm today to object to DLD officials' “cold-hearted” slaughter of dogs, Watchdog Thailand legal assistant and veterinarian Pattaranan Sajarom saidÃâà...
The Hill
March 21, 2018
Four animal rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) over its recent policy change on U.S. elephant trophy imports, warning that the new decisions won't be based on science. The groups — which include The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the HumaneÃâà...
Pacific Standard
March 21, 2018
Animal rights and conservation groups are suing Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke over his recent decision to allow, on a case-by-case basis, Americans who have gone abroad to hunt lions and elephants to bring their kills back home. The lawsuit alleges that the Department of the Interior's (DOI)Ãâà...
South China Morning Post
March 19, 2018
A man told a kitten how cute it was moments before violently stomping it to death, catching it all on video and sharing it to social media. New Zealand animal rights non-profit organisation Paw Justice has shared the “horrific” video in an appeal to identify the man in the video and see justice served.
Plant Based News
March 17, 2018
He does a lot for animal rights groups." Another added: "We watched it last night and were very happy to see that bit too!" But others weren't sure, with one person writing: "I watched it yesterday, he mentions a few times that he doesn't eat meat, and tries to save dogs in China, but that's about all he saysÃâà...
The Nation
March 17, 2018
It said the abandoned dogs appeared sad and had injuries and skin problems. They were apparently abandoned because they could not be sold as pets after they became ill, the group said. The group expressed concern that other dogs at the farm might be badly treated, so it urged police to act urgently.
VICE
March 16, 2018
Casper Hilt is a social worker and animal rights activist from Copenhagen. The 35-year-old is the founding director of the group Fremtiden er Vegansk (The Future Is Vegan), and an active member of animal rights organizations Anonymous for the Voiceless, Go Vegan, and Direct Action Everywhere.
PRWeek
March 16, 2018
The protesters were "armed with comical props such as toilet plungers to draw attention to how the agency is blocking comments from the concerned public", the group said. The league claims that Spider has not responded to comments on social media about the issue of caged hens, blocking it andÃâà...
MediaPost Communications
March 16, 2018
According to Dan Matthews, PETA senior vice president responsible for some of the organization's outrageous campaigns, “It plays on the universal fear. If there is a superior life form out there, would they treat us better than we treat animals?,” which he says is at least a sub-plot of a few science fiction films,Ãâà...
WJLA
March 15, 2018
This most recent campaign by Compassion Over Killing is yet another publicity stunt by a group with the stated goal of completely eliminating meat from our diets. This group is opposed to the current inspection system because it opposes using animals for food, so it's not surprising the group would oppose any proposedÃâà...
The Hill
March 15, 2018
Born Free USA, the animal rights group, filed a suit against Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday, arguing that the agency failed to provide details they requested in a November Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about the agency's International Wildlife Conservation Council (IWCC).
Good4Utah
March 14, 2018
According to reports from EastIdahoNews.com, the teacher is accused of feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle. PETA released the following statement Tuesday: PETA has learned that witnesses, including students, reportedly watched this teacher place a live puppy into a tank with a snapping turtle, whoÃâà...
Chicago Daily Herald
December 31, 1999
As federal agencies investigate the death of a French bulldog in an overhead compartment on a United Airlines flight, animal rights advocates are calling on carriers to review how they handle pets and urging owners to weigh the risks of air travel for animals. United has faced a public outcry this week in theÃâà...
Channel3000.com
December 31, 1999
Animal rights activists are fired up after a bill that would increase the penalty for people found guilty of having sexual contact with animals wasn't scheduled on Tuesday's state Senate calendar. "It's really crushing to be this close and to not get across the finish line," said Melissa Tedrowe, the WisconsinÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
An intruder stormed into the arena as the winner of the Crufts dog show was announced on live television. The male intruder, who was named by Crufts organisers as a protester from the animal rights group Peta, was wrestled to the ground in the middle of the show arena, the NEC in Birmingham.
Kathimerini
December 31, 1999
A bill that had proposed changes to the treatment of pets and stray animals has been withdrawn from public discussion following vehement criticism by animal rights groups about its provisions. Agricultural Development Minister Vangelis Apostolou said on Tuesday the legislation would be reviewed andÃâà...
