Critter News

DECEMBER 24, 2010

The Davis County Commission has agreed to pay the legal fees of an animal rights group after settling a lawsuit over animal shelter records. The money will cover a portion of PETA's legal fees for a lawsuit the group filed in January about animals that had been sold by the county shelter for research purposes.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2009

PETA has launched a spoof site for the Vancouver Olympic Games over seal hunting. I criticize PETA a lot, but in this case I think they are right on the money. Tags: PETA. I hate the seal slaughter. I think it's barbaric and should be ended. Slavery used to be a tradition in some societies. Here is a link to the site.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

PETA filed the lawsuit in the U.S. PETA went on to request that the whales be freed and released to a habitat better suited to their needs. On February 8, a federal judge said ‘no,’ stopping a historic case filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against SeaWorld for violating the 13th Amendment on slavery.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

See if you can figure out when the author starts talking about PETA. Tags: animal rights animal welfare. Here's one perspective. She doesn't mention it by name, but who else could it be?).

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2009

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. Thoroughly researched and annotated, The Longest Struggle reflects its author's two decades as an animal rights activist and his access to movement leaders who have shared with him their personal stories of campaigns that made animal rights history.

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Critter News

MAY 9, 2009

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

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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. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Marra and Santella are very much anti-TNR, a view that is shared by others, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), not to mention Birdchick. The traditional, supposedly humane answer to the glut of feral cats has been institution of “TNR” programs – trap, neuter, return.

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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

JUNE 12, 2009

PETA wants to buy the clinic owned by slain Dr. Tiller. "We Tags: PETA idiocy. 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.

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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. Donate to ARAN, make checks or postal orders payable to Animal Rights Action Network and mail to the address above, thank you. "The

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

US District Judge Jeffrey Miller called the hearing in San Diego after Sea World asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that names five orcas as plaintiffs in the case.

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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. Umoya should never have been removed from her home to begin with," said PETA spokesman David Perle. PETA and In Defense of Animals oppose keeping elephants in zoos.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2010

Now animal shelters have the right to refuse to release animals to the University of Utah for animal research. Tags: animal research utah university of utah legislation PETA. Previously, they were required to allow these "pound seizures."

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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. The practice gained wider publicity after the animal rights group PETA said earlier this month that 1 of its agents spent eight months working undercover at University of Utah research facilities. From the AP.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

According to Parker, here are the threats: the ALF, the ELF, SHAC, PeTA and the oddest member of the group, the HSUS. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language ALF Animal Agriculture Alliance Animal Rights Animal welfare ELF HSUS PeTA SHAC Vegan education veganism.

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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. PETA is very happy. I still don't understand what she was doing. She knew it was an animal skin.and she spent $4,000 on it?

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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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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. wildlife sanctuary.

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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

Last night, I watched "Milk," the film about assassinated gay rights activist Harvey Milk. 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.) Just the sorry animal rights movement.

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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. That fact alone suffices to grant them a legal right not to be made to suffer.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

There's a donate button on the homepage of AnimalEquality right at the bottom of the "Pig Farms" panel. And for those who wonder about their thoughts on PeTA, read this. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism. Thanks a lot.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

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. Tags: animal cruelty Michael Vick animal rights. The author, an assistant professor of sociology at Tulane University, poses some important questions.

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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

Bring on the PETA hotties! It's one that's brought on, no doubt, by the acts of vandalism and intimidation of radical animal-rights groups, but I think it also serves to insulate the research community from any responsibility it might otherwise have to increase transparency and public engagement with the work.

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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 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

APRIL 7, 2011

And right now, Mercy for Animals' Farm to Fridge Tour is doing that, too, in addition to picketing and getting mainstream media exposure for the short film. PETA's been using horrifying images for years.

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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 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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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! He's right with his implication that stopping the seizing of pets and strays simply created a more efficient, effective means of commodifying and torturing dogs and cats.

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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. Despite the claims made in the letter, circuses like Ringling Bros.

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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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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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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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