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OCTOBER 9, 2008

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty pigs farm animal welfare.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty china monkeys. If only they could have escaped to a better life.

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JANUARY 3, 2010

Tags: animal cruelty spay/neuter latin america strays companion animals. This is a good group. Check them out.

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JANUARY 1, 2010

Tags: animal cruelty. I can't even comment on this, the anger is too intense. Happy New Year {insert sarcasm here!).

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MARCH 3, 2009

Schomaker, who was released from jail after paying a $400 fine on the arrest warrant, faces drug and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. Tags: animal cruelty Stupid. He did not immediately respond to phone messages left Monday seeking comment. What a bunch of.

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JULY 13, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty law enforcement blood sport dog fighting. It happened about a week ago with up to 350 dogs seized in 5 states. About 30 people were arrested.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty kenny glenn internet. Good article in the Irish Times analyzing the role of the Internet in the the crime and capture of Kenny Glenn, cat torturer.

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JUNE 1, 2009

A farm-animal breeder who ran what a prosecutor called "the zoo from hell" was convicted Tuesday of animal cruelty. A jury in West Haverstraw deliberated less than two hours before convicting Robert Everle of all 13 charges of torturing, injuring and starving animals. And people wonder why I'm so disappointed by humans.

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JANUARY 8, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty entertainment elephants. This is a new blog I came across called Paws4Life, The Reality of What Humans do. This post has three graphic pictures of a baby elephant allegedly being "trained" for the entertainment industry. I'm thinking it's India?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty kenny glenn. I came across this story about it in Russia Today, an English language Russian newsite. By the way, here's a petition to have him tried as an adult. It claims that his brother was in on the abuse as well.maybe he was the camera guy? Lovely kids.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. I'd never heard of them before. I'm very impressed by their courage and tenacity.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty exper new iberia research center primates medical research. They are at least admitting there are problems with standard operating procedures at New Iberia Research Center. Officials claim to be taking steps to correct certain problems.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Tags: animal testing animal cruelty military pigs medical research PETA. But it's worth noting that someone out there took some action on this gruesome story. And that's what I like about PETA and why I recently became a member for the first time. They are fast, organized, committed and they get attention.

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MAY 16, 2010

Tags: animal cruelty exotic skins lizards. Anyway, I'm wondering if the decision could have been influenced by PETA's investigation of how reptiles are being skinned alive for these sales. This PETA post doesn't claim the credit though.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Statutes banning animal fighting have a specific exemption for dog training. And while South Carolina's attorney general says animal cruelty laws prohibit bear baying, he hasn't prosecuted any cases. Tags: animal cruelty blood sport south carolina humane society bears hunting.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Carlisle is seen smiling in the photo and a comment on the social Internet site says the animals were euthanized through drowning. Tags: animal cruelty. She's claiming it's all a big mistake. Not an easy defense when you're dumb enough to post a picture of yourself afterwards on Facebook.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty puppy mills animal welfare us. This is definitely a situation that could have been stopped early on. How much suffering and death resulted from this family's practices? The article is particularly thorough and damning.

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JULY 29, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty blood sport humane society Michael Vick sick. Plus, I personally have no room for forgiveness for Sick Vick. Others may, but I don't. What do you all think about his upcoming work for the Humane Society? Pretty savvy on HSUS' part? Or are they trying to get publicity?

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JUNE 4, 2009

"The animal research industry is just as unregulated as Wall Street was before the current economic crisis," said Michael A. Tags: animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty medical research. Budkie, SAEN executive director. "If

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

And the disturbing video: Tags: animal cruelty PETA.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty kenny glenn Michael Vick. Why should we care so much about a cat and not about the abuse of a child? Are cats more important than people? What kind of world is this? We saw it with Michael Vick and we'll see it with this kid.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty blood sport Stupid. It is alleged that attendees would gamble on the outcome of the canary fights, put down their money, and then place two birds in a cage to see which would emerge the victor.

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MAY 12, 2009

It’s not just one animal that was abused or neglected, it is usually hundreds that have suffered in deplorable conditions, many of these animals enduring a slow and painful death. Tags: animal cruelty animal welfare hoarding.

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JANUARY 24, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty animal rescue puppy mills. She says that northwest Washington is a refuge for puppy mills because regulation up there is particularly lax. If the regulation in this area is worse than puppy mill regulation in general, it must be REALLY bad.

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MARCH 10, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty illegal pets primates us. Pierce Onthank, the president of an oil and gas company, was charged in January with illegal possession of a primate for keeping a siamang, a type of gibbon that is native to rain forests in Malaysia and Indonesia and can weigh up to 30 pounds and stand 3 feet high.

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APRIL 16, 2009

I guess small protests like NARN's seem futile when compared to the overwhelming issue of animal welfare, but you have to think that a number of small protests over time can have a large cumulative impact. Tags: animal cruelty california foie gras food.

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OCTOBER 26, 2008

Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia. Tags: animal cruelty books. It would also be useful to students of sociology and politics in general, and social movements in particular.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty georgia blood sport legislation dog fighting us. A first conviction means one to five years in prison, a fine of at least $5,000, or both. The law also makes attending a dog fight a high and aggravated misdemeanor on the first offense, a felony on subsequent ones.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty africa seal hunters seals namibia hunting. The pair were subsequently held by the Namibian authorities before being freed after agreeing to pay a fine for "entering a protected marine area without a permit.".

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DECEMBER 7, 2008

Tags: animal cruelty Texas dog fighting us. “It’s like the Saturday night poker game for hardened criminals,” said one of the undercover agents, Sgt. Manning, describing the tense atmosphere at the fights. Disgusting and disturbing.

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APRIL 13, 2009

Often the care of animals at such dealers is considered substandard. It's really just a matter of luck whether an animal gets to go home to a warm bed or to a cold cage in a laboratory. Tags: animal experimentation animal cruelty medical research. Truly unfair.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

Tags: animal cruelty circus elephants. According to the complaint, the defendants routinely beat elephants, violating the 1973 Endangered Species Act by hitting them with bull hooks. It also contends they forcibly remove baby elephants from their mothers with ropes and chains before they are weaned.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Bill 50 makes it a provincial offence to abuse any animal, and it establishes the strongest penalties in the country for those charged with animal cruelty -- including the potential to prohibit offenders from owning animals ever again. Tags: animal law. It's the first update since 1919. That's right 1919.

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MARCH 19, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty pigs pork farm animal welfare factory farm animal welfare. There is no economic motivation to treat them well or to care about their wellbeing. The only real concern comes from the spread of illness to humans from eating diseased meat, but they only need to provide minimal care to avoid that.

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MARCH 23, 2009

To re-create and measure the environmental conditions, Animal Control staff put a dog from the pound, of similar size and weight to the dead dog, in the same holding cage for an hour. Tags: animal cruelty Stupid USDA animal welfare us. Weather conditions were also similar.

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MARCH 26, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty Michael Vick. Michael "Sick" Vick should not be allowed back into the NFL, but he doesn't have to be diagnosed as a psychopath first. What he did revealed the kind of person he is. It says enough. But I suspect some team will pick him up.controversy fills seats.

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MARCH 31, 2009

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty. The Earthlings trailer can be viewed at [link].

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