Critter News

MARCH 25, 2009

The disfigured pop star Michael Jackson has been criticized by PETA for his use of exotic animals. Animal rights group PETA have condemned Michael Jackson's apparent plans to ride an elephant on stage at his forthcoming London residency.

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Critter News

MARCH 28, 2009

PETA wants to run a campaign that compares factory farming to the Holocaust. The German constitutional court has ruled that animal rights organisation PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) must end its campaign in which it draws a comparison between the Holocaust and industrial farming.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

PETA's latest publicity stunt was to file a lawsuit in federal court alleging that five orcas at SeaWorld in San Diego are slaves for purposes of the 13th Amendment. I'm a longtime proponent of animal rights, but this suit is ridiculous. Applying it to nonhuman animals is a stretch.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. For an attorney, that's awfully weak.

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Critter News

MAY 9, 2009

It's titled "The Animal Activists' Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World" by Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich. One guy runs Vegan Outreach and the other is a VP at PETA (they have those?). Here's a review on Huffington Post. Looks like it has some interesting ideas.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Brief commentary follows this e-mail I received regarding greyhounds, animal rights and Ireland. We're simply asking you for just a couple of hour to help greyhounds in serious trouble right now. Need reminding why cruelty to animals is wrong? Also, John Carmody is PETA's spokesperson for Ireland.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

An animal rights group has called for a federal investigation into the death of an elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The Northern California-based In Defense of Animals called for the Department of Agriculture, which does inspections of zoos, to investigate Umoya's death.

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Critter News

JULY 18, 2011

Very controversial with organizations such as In Defense of Animals, PETA and the Northwest Animal Rights Network. An article in today's Seattle Times about Woodland Park Zoo's attempts over the last 20 years to breed elephants. They say it's cruel. The zoo claims it's to preserve the species.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

She's supposedly a vegetarian and is friends with Walk the Line co-star Joaquin Phoenix who is a huge animal rights activist and vegan. She knew it was an animal skin.and she spent $4,000 on it? PETA is very happy. I still don't understand what she was doing.

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Critter News

JUNE 12, 2009

PETA wants to buy the clinic owned by slain Dr. Tiller. "We We want to take a building that has been a flashpoint for conflict on one moral issue and turn it into a place of dialogue on another one," said Bruce Friedrich, vice president for policy at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tags: PETA idiocy.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

I notice that if I use "animal rights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. People have a relationship, whether or not they are aware, to the term "animal rights." But I don't want to talk about PeTA.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. From the AP.

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Critter News

JANUARY 31, 2010

In this week's podcast ending January 30, 2010: **A Mercy for Animals video spurs calls for a ban on tail docking in the State of New York; **Animal rights activists try to stop construction of a bullfighting ring in Beijing; **A PETA protestor gets a pie in the face for protesting against the Canadian seal hunt; **And legislation is proposed in China (..)

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Let's deconstruct: The interview reminds me of how the industry views us and how little they know about the community of people who care about the lives of the animals brought into this world for one reason only: to kill and eat them. Are we pinning people down and force-feeding them vegan burritos? .

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Animal Person

MARCH 10, 2010

I credit Will Potter as the catalyst for shifting my focus away from critiques of other activists and activist groups (particularly his post, " While the Government Continues Attacks on Activists, Animal Rights Groups Protest Each Other " back in 2008). I'm not saying that criticism of PETA, or any other group, isn't warranted.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

I not only learned about Harvey Milk, but about the early stages of the gay rights movement (which is ongoing today when one looks at all the right-wing flutterings over gay marriage.) It made me think though about the animal rights movement. Are we really a social movement like gay rights and civil rights?

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

So why is one type of animal cruelty (dogfighting) more reprehensible than another (lobster-boiling)? If you are a non-meat-eating, non-leather-wearing, non-shampoo-using, animal-rights activist for PETA, then it is not hypocritical to judge Vick for animal abuse.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2014

To the Editor: Once again people associated with the animal rights group PETA ( letter , June 19) have tried to disparage the commitment circuses have for animal care and conservation. and Barnum & Bailey are dedicated to providing the very best of care for all our animals, especially the Asian elephant.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

And for those who wonder about their thoughts on PeTA, read this. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism. (As far as I'm concerned, Peaceable Kingdom can't be released soon enough.) I wholeheartedly support the mission of AnimalEquality/ IgualdadAnimal.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't. She had one perfect opportunity to present herself as pro-animal rights when Oprah (laughingly) asked: But what if the cows and the chickens are treated really, really nicely. Nothing wrong with any of that.

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

And if Compassion in World Farming wanted to see if I knew of their campaigns and might want to support them, they could have easily Googled CIWF right at Animal Person, at which point they'd find: On Compassion in World Farming. The PeTA I Knew and Loved, Sort Of. Eat More Veal? How About Be More Honest. On Egypt's Pig Cull.

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2009

I think that people who are pro-animal research would come away with something to ponder, definitely the sense that this is not a pretty or sanitized practice. Animal Person points out this comment made by Daniel Engber, the author. Bring on the PETA hotties!

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This is not a book about animal rights, and some might say Foer gets animal rights wrong as his only reference is PETA. In all fairness, most people's only reference is PETA. Note that the "it" after all of that stopped me in my tracks, but what with editors, Foer might not have had control over that.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

An inside look at South American kosher slaughterhouses where Israel gets most of its meat is the subject of a new PETA tape released exclusively to the influential American Jewish newspaper, the Forward.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Animal-rights activists claim an orca is being held in an "inadequate tank" in the Miami Seaquarium. Read the rest of the article in the Courthouse News Service. They sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for excluding captive killer whales from listing under the Endangered Species Act.

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Critter News

JUNE 2, 2009

From the article: A national animal rights group plans to erect billboards in Wichita urging people on both sides of the abortion debate to go vegetarian. Stay classy there PETA. Tags: PETA. One version of the billboard says, "Pro-Life? Go Vegetarian." The other says, "Pro-Choice? Choose Vegetarian."

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

This morning, during the Facebook discussion, Engber writes (and the first sentence is reason alone to chime in): Bring on the PETA hotties! Actually, I didn't quit neuroscience as a result of the experiences described, but I did quit working with animals.

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Critter News

MAY 11, 2009

And it's especially the case in animal rights advocacy. Many people say that PETA relies too heavily on emotion to argue its position. Tags: animal rights advocacy. There's always a dilemma in debating any issue as to whether one should rely on emotion or reason to advance one's argument.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Animal rights groups are seeking leave to appeal to the high court in their ongoing fight to have Lucy the elephant moved to a warm-weather U.S. PETA and Zoocheck have applied to challenge an Alberta Court of Appeal split decision last month that ruled against their plan to sue the City of Edmonton over Lucy.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Tree, 44, has been rewarded for his compassion by rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) which gave him its Hero to Animals Award. The compassion that David Tree showed in caring for Sam is an inspiration to others throughout the community and beyond,' said Peta Director Jason Baker.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

From The Age: Animal rights activists intend ramping up their international campaign against Australian wool after producers indicated they would not stick to a deadline for phasing out mulesing. Now PETA and others are upset about this because the new directors say they won't be held to deadlines.

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Critter News

AUGUST 23, 2011

The fur is flying over plans by the People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals to run a porn site in the group’s fight against animal abuse. Peta.xxx will have sexually explicit content and address animal rights issues. This exploits women and is an abuse of people. They have lost all sense of balance.

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