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'Sick' person wraps Philly cat in duct tape

Someone completely wrapped a cat in duct tape and dumped her in North Philadelphia on Tuesday. "Whoever did this is very... more

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Owner chains dog to tree outside animal shelter, found with maggots, severely matted graphic pic

On Friday morning, a volunteer walking a dog down the drive to Animal Haven saw something rustling in the leaves and dirt. At... more

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Japan Gets to See Dolphin-Hunting Documentary 'The Cove' - TIME

September heralds the six-month dolphin-hunting season in Taiji, a small seaside town in Japan's southwestern Wakayama prefecture. And residents are sensing the attack on them has also begun.

The Cove — a U.S. documentary with the air of a spy thriller that has been called "advocacy filmmaking at its best" since its release on July 31 — depicts Taiji's centuries-old tradition of killing dolphins with an unflinching eye on the sometimes gruesome process.

The documentarians, led by photographer turned director Louie Psihoyos and dolphin trainer turned activist Richard O'Barry, have stirred both international outcry and acclaim at film festivals from Sundance to Seattle with their footage of the slaughter that takes place every year in a remote cove in Taiji.

Earlier this week, the town decided to release 70 of the roughly 100 dolphins from the previous week's catch. But Taiji fishermen aren't the only ones bowing to international pressure.

Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) chairman Tom Yoda announced on Sept. 16 that the festival will screen the film, after previously rejecting it for TIFF's official selection (the festival starts next month).

Having come under fire for initially rejecting the documentary, Yoda said the reasons for rejecting or accepting films aren't generally discussed, as the festival receives more than 700 entries each year.

No film festival has a moral obligation to accept a film, but TIFF's slogan of "Action! For Earth" raised more than a few eyebrows when the widely lauded eco-documentary didn't make the cut. In the end, Yoda said, the festival "decided to take The Cove due to international attention worldwide."

The Cove casts Taiji's dolphin hunt as one town's dirty secret...the reality, however, is that Japan culls about 20,000 dolphins across the nation every year. To those in Taiji and other areas where dolphin hunting is permitted, the global reaction to The Cove has a whiff of the enduringly contentious whaling debate (Japan has hunted whales in the name of "SCIENCE" for decades despite environmentalists' ire).

The new wave of criticism of dolphin hunting that has been spurred by the film has many fishermen and local bureaucrats rolling their eyes over what they interpret as a another bout of foreign outrage at a practice that is legal, regulated and culturally acceptable in Japan, where dolphin meat — like whale — is eaten in the regions where it's hunted.September heralds the six-month dolphin-hunting season in Taiji, a small seaside town in Japan's southwestern Wakayama... more

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Japanese town in 'The Cove' setting dolphins free

TOKYO -- The Japanese town chronicled in the award-winning film "The Cove" for its annual dolphin hunt that turns... more

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Hayden Panettiere animal lover and supporter of leather bags?

Ok first off, I know the article Im linking too is from last November...but with the new The Cove trailers being released that... more

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Orlando man accused of raping dog to death

Police say an Orlando, Fla. man sodomized his dog so violently, that the dog had to be euthanized. Laszio Arsenio Horvath, 21,... more

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"The Cove" - Trailer

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, The Cove follows a high-tech dive team on a... more

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Why Dolphins

Denmark / Faroe Islands is not a third world country, why do they continue to fish for Dolphin and Whale! I don't see this as... more

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Michael Vick released

The electronic monitor came off ex-Atlanta quarterback Michael Vick's ankle and made him a free man Monday. Now the... more

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Namibian seal pups can still be saved

WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO It may not to late to save more than 90,000 Namibian seals from cruel clubbing. Namibian govt... more

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'Spaceship' boosts anti-whaling force against Japan's might

"Earthrace" is joining the fight for the whales. JAPAN has asked Australia to prevent the Sea Shepherd ship Steve... more

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Man intentionally runs over mother

'A Westport farm family makes way for 12 orphaned ducklings' The ducklings were barely 2 weeks old when their mother... more

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Hidden Crimes

Eyelids are sewn shut to study effect of light deprivation. HIDDEN CRIMES: A Photographic exhibition on vivisection (WARNING:... more

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Animals In The Circus

Born Free USA united with API's dynamic circus campaign aims to end the exploitation and suffering of wild animals used in... more

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'The End of the Line' examines the perils of overfishing

Whoever thought that our heart-healthy, low-cal, doctor-approved trips to the supermarket fish counter would become fraught with moral choices?

That's exactly the case being made by "The End of the Line," the disturbing new documentary on what overfishing is doing to the world's oceans. (It opens in Los Angeles next Friday.) The film from director Rupert Murray and investigative journalist Charles Clover was screened Monday at UCLA to mark World Oceans Day. Producer Lawrence Bender and longtime environmental activist Kelly Meyer (wife of Universal Pictures President RonMeyer) hosted a crowd that included Rosario Dawson, Saffron Burrows and Kimberly Estrada.

Later this summer, the campaign will include broadcast and online public service announcements featuring Martin Sheen, Alyssa Milano, Rosanna Arquette, Ellen Page, Kelly Preston, Anthony LaPaglia, Gia Carides, Brenda Strong, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Shawn Pyfrom, Keisha Whitaker, Ken Baumann, Kelli Williams, Dave Lieberman, Rene Auberjonois and former NBA player John Salley.

There's a new optimism stirring among activists in this community because after eight years of outright hostility emanating from the Bush White House toward environmental issues, the Obama administration is more willing to engage questions that involve complex international questions.

"The End of the Line," based on Clover's groundbreaking book of the same title, is the first feature-length documentary to take on the overfishing crisis.

According to the filmmakers, failure to take quick action will mean the end of most commercial fishing within less than half a century with dire consequences both in terms of depleting the food supply and the loss of jobs.

To make their case, Murray and Clover not only traveled to fishing grounds all over the world, but also confronted politicians and celebrity restaurateurs on camera.

As examples of what's in store for other popularly consumed species, Murray and Clover examine in detail the near extinction of commercial cod stocks and the impending collapse of bluefin tuna populations around the world, much of the latter caused by the West's newly aroused appetite for sushi and sashimi.

(Add that happy thought to your deliberations the next time you're trying to decide whether to spring for the toro at the local sushi bar.)Whoever thought that our heart-healthy, low-cal, doctor-approved trips to the supermarket fish counter would become fraught with... more

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Humane society launches lobbying campaign in dog's death

SIOUX CITY -- Woodbury County Attorney Patrick Jennings said Tuesday his office has filed charges against a man who is accused of... more

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'Food, Inc.' What R U Eating?

'Food, Inc.' offers plenty to chew on _ if you don't lose your appetite

You put food in your mouth every day. But do you know exactly what you're consuming when you pick up chicken breasts at the grocery store or drive though a fast-food restaurant for a cheeseburger? Or do you even bother to care?...

Wal-Mart, the Lucifer of multinational corporations in many liberal eyes, sees the fiscal sense in stocking an increasingly wide array of organic foodstuffs, consumer habits truly are changing. Not fast enough, though, for documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner, whose eye-opening "Food, Inc." should win a few hearts and minds regarding what we put in our stomachs.

Several things -- too many, probably -- are going on in "Food, Inc.," all connected. Kenner begins by tracing the impact of 20th Century American fast food on industrialized food production, and notes that when McDonald's brought factory assembly-line strategies into practice, everything changed. McDonald's became a universe of beef-purchasing power unto itself. Their cows, like so many millions of other feedlot residents, consume corn instead of grass; the humans in our increasingly obese nation eat a ton of corn as well, courtesy of high-fructose, heavily subsidized corn syrup (found in everything).

As a Brooklyn, N.Y., doctor in another food doc, "King Corn," put it: American food policy ensures that "we subsidize the Happy Meals -- but we don't subsidize the healthy ones."

Are the federal regulatory and protection agencies doing enough to keep us safe from E. coli outbreaks and the like? The film answers that one with a firm "no." Does eating organic food lead to a healthier diet and a healthier environment?

The film got virtually no cooperation from representatives of the dominant players in industrial food production, including Tyson (we see a chicken processing factory in full swing), Monsanto (whose strong-arm business practices come off very, very badly) and others.

As a result, "Food, Inc." is a rangy, well-articulated essay rather than a compelling point-counterpoint. Kenner can be accused of substituting surface tension, with threatening music cues riding in on almost every sequence, for a higher brand of dialectical tension -- the accused getting time, and room, to debate their accusers.

The most eloquent arguments in "Food, Inc." belong to Michael Pollan, who wrote "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and who served as project consultant. "Fast Food Nation" author Eric Schlosser is onscreen a lot as well.

MPAA rating: PG (for some thematic material and disturbing images)
Running time: 1:33
Featuring: Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation"); Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma"); Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms); Joe Salatin (Polyface Farms)
Directed by: Robert Kenner; produced by Kenner and Elise Pearlstein. A Magnolia Pictures release.'Food, Inc.' offers plenty to chew on _ if you don't lose your appetite You put food in your mouth every day.... more