Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Tags: horse. It's that if you don't have the funds, and you don't have the feed, and don't have the place to keep them, and they are old, and they are no longer going to work for what you need them for, it's a place for them to go," said Billings Livestock and Horse Sale's Jenn Parker. A place for them to go?

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Critter News

MAY 3, 2009

Montana has passed a law making it difficult to challenge the building of a horse slaughtering facility in that state. Judicial review of equine slaughter or processing facilities -- surety bond -- attorney fees -- venue. (1) Judicial review of equine slaughter or processing facilities -- surety bond -- attorney fees -- venue. (1)

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Critter News

AUGUST 8, 2009

Tags: captivity dolphin marine life Japan amusement parks. It is not a favorable portrayal. They are basically portrayed as benefiting from the horrific hunting and capture of dolphins in Japan.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 12, 2008

Tags: Palin wolves. That is the allegation in this Defenders to Wildlife video. If true, that's another reason not to vote for this backwoods goofball hick.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

The inflatable mascot will bear a banner demanding an end to the commercial seal slaughter and will be accompanied by animal advocates who will enlist people to call on their representatives in Parliament to support legislation that would end the slaughter. Tags: IFAW PETA.

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Critter News

MAY 8, 2009

A cow that escaped from a slaughter house in NY City has been allowed to go to an animal sanctuary. Tags: meat animal rescue Slaughterhouse cows meatpacking.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Tags: Dumbass Palin. And yes, you will be hearing more about her here. We've been following her destructive policies since before she brought her trailer trash values down to the lower 48, and we'll keep following her until she leaves office.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

A Congolese minister says that "In 2007 alone, we recorded the slaughter of 15 mountain gorillas and more than 20,000 antelopes,".adding Tags: congo gorillas. adding that in the past decade the number of hippopotami had fallen from 30,000 to 1,000. 30,000 to 1,000? I don't have the words to react anymore.

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Critter News

AUGUST 29, 2009

From the African Conservation Foundation.the story was actually published earlier in August, but still worth posting A shocking undercover journey reveals that a poaching cartel known as ‘The Crocodile Gang’, led by Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa, is slaughtering rhinos and elephants to fulfill ‘requests’ for horn and ivory.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter. According to a statement from the AQHA, “The majority of horses processed for slaughter in the United States [prior to slaughterhouse closures in this country] were no longer viable for their intended use, unmanageable or simply unwanted by their owners.

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Critter News

MAY 5, 2009

A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane". Tags: seal hunters.

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2009

That's a huge slaughter in my opinion. Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa zambia trafficking elephants. 36 elephants?

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Critter News

AUGUST 6, 2009

“The captivity industry keeps the slaughter going,” O’Barry charges in movie. Tags: captivity dolphin animal cruelty marine life Japan. If he has his way, the gruesome images of bloody dolphins will keep you from buying a ticket to a marine park, or stepping into a pool of one of those “dolphin encounters” at a tropical resort.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

The marketing of an operation of breeding and slaughtering sentient nonhumans as a family farm (here, Bell straddles the line) is supposed to trigger some kind of compassion for the humans. It's the one that matters most to beings who simply want to live their lives without betrayal, disrespect, enslavement and slaughter.

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Animal Person

MAY 9, 2009

I don't agree that the game is "no different than a lobster tank" (at least conceptually--I haven't seen it), but "animal rights activists" should be campaigning for the cessation of the slaughter and consumption of lobsters, shouldn't they? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. What do you think of this campaign?

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Critter News

MAY 18, 2009

The endangered whales, possibly the largest animals ever to live on Earth, have yet to recover from the worldwide slaughter that eliminated 99 percent of their number, according to the American Cetacean Society. Tags: oceans marine life whales environment alaska endangered species.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The voices of Jim Vandersluis and Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis of Maple Farm Sanctuary were especially poignant, and the anguish in their faces--in their eyes--jumps off the screen as they explain how and when it hit them that the business of raising goats for milk requires surrendering the babies to be slaughtered. For all of us.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2010

Tags: Stupid legislation horse slaughter Missouri. The late-night, anonymous phone calls led Shoss to file a harassment complaint last week with the University City Police Department. The calls stopped, she said, after the Post-Dispatch started asking lawmakers about them.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2009

I hate the seal slaughter. Tags: PETA. 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. I think it's barbaric and should be ended. You can go on and on about tradition, but just because something is old doesn't make it good.

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2009

Locals have told Hicks that up to a few years ago there was very little poaching (except for elephants) in the area, and that it is the mining of diamonds and gold that has lead to the current slaughter of wildlife. Tags: chimpanzees poaching congo endangered species.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism. I wholeheartedly support the mission of AnimalEquality/ IgualdadAnimal. And for those who wonder about their thoughts on PeTA, read this.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter? So we went from a ban to a vague statement about the prevention of abuse that clearly doesn't consider slaughter abusive. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Food and Drink. We can care about animals and people at the same time; they're not mutually exclusive.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Baur believes that slaughterhouse cruelty can be reduced by simple operational changes, such as slowing down the slaughter lines. Tags: animal cruelty proposition 2 cattle farm animal welfare agribusiness. The faster they go, the greater the problems with animals being handled roughly and being improperly killed.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. You are choosing domination and enslavement and forced breeding and unnecessary slaughter.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Slaughter in moderation. Tags: Ethics Language. really, Mary?) peeved upon hearing or reading these words. It smacks of laziness, not to mention exaggeration. . Rape in moderation. Genocide in moderation. Slavery in moderation. Terror in moderation. Injustice in moderation. Heroine in moderation. Child molestation in moderation.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

And when you have people who slaughter animals for a living on your side, in my mind your pro-animal message loses credibility. Tags: Books Ethics. But the net message is the same: factory farming=bad, small farms=good. And once you are on the side of justice, it's impossible to present a rational alternative to animal farming.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

I prefer "anti-unnecessary slaughter of sentient nonhumans" and it has nothing to do with perceived modernity. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language ALF Animal Agriculture Alliance Animal Rights Animal welfare ELF HSUS PeTA SHAC Vegan education veganism. The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting !

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is not to say that I'm going to stop what I do; I'm just realistic about how far it will go to address the actual cause of the rampant exploitation and massive slaughter I want to eliminate. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics. Are there parts of it that resonate for you?

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Some key words are in English at the website, which gives clear instructions for streaming.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

People whose careers involve creating, fattening, transporting and slaughtering sentient nonhumans whose parts and secretions will then be used as food are having some financial difficulties. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Food and Drink Language. Along with the rest of the country.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 5, 2009

And one of the groups demonized by the mainstream is people who think it's unethical to demonize, disrespect and slaughter animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. In America, we demonize not only certain animals, but certain people. What's wrong with this picture?

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

David Jentsch says to his colleagues "your silence will no longer protect you" and his community of vivisectionists has decided to have a pro-torture and slaughter (i.e., Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Animal Liberation Front animal rights David Jentsch Jerry Vlasak UCLA vivisection. Guess what the answer is?

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Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

if they are "farmed" or slaughtered in a certain way). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film. Encourage others to go vegan by educating them about the issues, and particularly about why we should not accept alternatives to eating animals that include eating animals (i.e.,

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

If you believe your dog has a right to a life free of torture and slaughter for no reason, then you really ought to think about extending that right to mice, rats, chickens and fish. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Especially when that group doesn't appear to want us to stop using animals.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 20, 2010

Do you politely say that you've done the research and are convinced that a vegan diet is perfectly appropriate for most dogs and has the added bonus of not putting you in a position where you're supporting the needless slaughter of other animals? Tags: Books Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters.

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

I long for the realistic hope that one second will pass without torture and slaughter and enslavement, and I know perfectly well that that second, despite Earth Days and Earth Hours and Meat-Free Days, isn't going to happen. Tags: Activism Current Affairs. People are simply too selfish. What to do.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism. But for now, we have a book that describes how we got here and what we might do.

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