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Connie is an Asian elephant, Shaba an African one. Nonetheless, they formed a bond, paling around together for three decades at Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo.
So when zoo officials announced plans last year to move Connie to the San Diego Zoo –- without her buddy Shaba -– animal activists were enraged.
The Tucson zoo was planning to bring in a herd of African elephants from San Diego, the Arizona Daily Star reported. Because zoo accreditation standards demand that new herds not mix African and Asian elephants, "due to multiple species differences and possible disease transmission issues," Connie would join other Asian elephants in San Diego.
But local activists Tracy Toland and Jessica Shuman considered the separation cruel. It “defies everything we know about elephants: their intelligence, profoundly deep social bonds (females remain with their mothers for life) and the capacity for deep emotion,” they wrote in the Daily Star.
The women launched a campaign to keep Connie, 44, and Shaba, 31, together and added some celebrity sizzle to the debate. At their behest, former “Price Is Right” host and well-known animal advocate Bob Barker recently offered to contribute $500,000 to send the elephants to a California sanctuary if others could raise matching funds.
This week, Tucson zoo officials reversed course, announcing that Connie and Shaba could both move to San Diego, the Daily Star said. Turns out, San Diego’s Asian elephant herd already has an African member, so Connie and Shaba’s cross-species kinship will fit right in.
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"Why Love One But Eat the Other?" Billboards Stir Controversy in Toronto Subway System
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They are pretty careful about who gets to put ads up in the Toronto subway system, and animal rights activists usually don't make the cut. But through September and October, subway riders have come face to face with a powerful campaign to convince people that if they like cute kittens and puppies, then they shouldn't be eating chickens and pigs. Kimberly Caroll, an organizer of the campaign says:
Pigs, cows and chickens are remarkable beings," says campaign spokesperson Kimberly Carroll. "Cows will walk for miles to reunite with a calf after being sold at auction. Pigs have intelligence beyond that of a 3 year-old human. Chickens mourn the loss of their loved ones. We hope that in connecting with these animals and the grievous suffering that is behind every burger, omelette, and hot dog, people will be motivated to make more compassionate food choices.
I was surprised that the campaign got approved at all; Kimberly explained:
We ran a similar campaign back in 2009 on the TTC at about a quarter of the size of the current one. At that point the ad had to go through various levels of approval while we waited on pins and needles, but it was approved! This time around, it seems there were no concerns. We've been very impressed with the TTC for this. We believe this is the first animal rights campaign to run on the TTC.
While the puppy and pig comparison is probably not a stretch for most people, the kitten and chicken one is probably a bit more difficult. But they make a case that chickens are "inquisitive, affectionate and personable."
It is not a new message, that animals are animals and it is crazy to treat one kind so differently from another; the British Vegetarian Society did it decades ago. But it is new, seeing it in Toronto plastered all over the subway, where the TTC says it will be seen by 5.7 million people every week. Kimberly says that it is effective; she is getting "several emails, posts, and twitters a day from folks saying they're going veg after seeing the ads."
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Livestock Farms Could Be Off Limits To Photos
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April 13, 2011
Animal rights activists have secretly filmed the inner workings of livestock farms, which has led to some bad press for the industry. Bills introduced in Florida and Iowa would make photographing animal operations without the owner's permission a felony. Supporters say that would help prevent activists from fraudulently being hired. Opponents argue the bills would prevent current employees from reporting abuse.
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In Iowa and in Florida, big livestock operations are supporting bills that would forbid animal rights activists from going undercover to take photos and document conditions at big farms. Activists are asking what the industry has to hide. From Iowa Harvest Public Media's Kathleen Masterson reports.
KATHLEEN MASTERSON: If livestock industry groups get their way what happened at this farm would be considered a crime. Here in central Iowa amid an expanse of cornfields, Rose Acre Farms has six huge hen houses, each the length of a football field.
Last February, an undercover activist from the Human Society got a job here. He wanted to get inside and film the workings of the facility that houses about a million chickens. He stayed here only two weeks.
Then three months later, the Human Society held a news conference and splashed a video on the Web. It shows scenes filmed at Rose Acre Farms and another company's farm. The footage shows chickens living in cramped cages and some dead birds whose carcasses were left so long they'd been mummified.
Unidentified Woman: The crews just shoving them in the cages, sometimes they'll get their legs slammed in the door or their wings.
MASTERSON: The pending Iowa law would make filming this video without the owner's permission and the mere possession of it a criminal offense, punishable by up to five years in jail.
At Rose Acres, farm manager Andrew Kaldenberg says while the video did show some footage of their farm, the abuses didn't occur there. The media were invited out to their barn within hours of the video being released.
Mr. ANDREW KALDENBERG (Manager, Rose Acres): We welcome reporters, you know, what have we got to hide? If we're not treating our animals right, they ain't going to produce. They're not going to produce, we're out of business.
MASTERSON: So I asked him to show me around the hen houses.
Mr. KALDENBERG: In this house we are ten rows wide, five tier high. That means that we have five cages stacked on top of each other.
MASTERSON: Kaldenberg says the activists' motives are to promote an agenda which is vehemently against how the industry produces food, with thousands of birds living in row after row of small cages.
Rose Acre Farms and other large chicken, hog and cattle organizations say the pending Iowa legislation is being mischaracterized. They say it isn't about stopping whistleblowers from reporting abuse, but argue it's about keeping people who misrepresent their true purpose from getting hired.
Kevin Vinchattle is the executive director of the Iowa Egg Council.
Mr. KEVIN VINCHATTLE (Executive Director, Iowa Egg Council): People are trying to characterize the livestock folks as trying to hide things. We're not. We don't want any animal to be abused. And if it's truly a case where a person thinks that abuse is occurring, that needs to be reported immediately, not six weeks done the road or months later in a video released for PR efforts to raise money for an organization.
MASTERSON: But a whole section of the Iowa bill explicitly bans photography.
There's a similar bill under debate in Florida. Kansas and Montana already have laws that ban taking secret photos of an animal facility if the intent is to damage the owner. And other states across the country are also considering similar legislation.
Humane Society's Paul Shapiro says the bills are an attempt to shield America's food production system from public scrutiny. He says their exposes have been done legally and resulted in convictions for animal cruelty, as well as meat recalls over food safety problems. Without undercover videos, activists say their claims wouldn't be taken seriously.
In Iowa, State Senator Matt McCoy, a Democrat from Des Moines, said a bill like this would set a dangerous precedent. He argues the multibillion dollar livestock industry wants to operate with less oversight.
State Senator MATT MCCOY (Democrat, Iowa): They view animal welfare groups and individuals that take undercover video and release it to the public as a threat to their livelihood.
MASTERSON: Neither side in this fight appears willing to budge yet on a key sticking point, whether secretly photographing farm animals should be considering a criminal act.
For NPR News, I'm Kathleen Masterson in Ames, Iowa.
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'Whale Wars' activist survives quake
By Patrick Oppmann, CNN
March 19, 2011 3:05 p.m. EDT
Scott West was in unfriendly territory when the quake hit.
Edmonds, Washington (CNN) --
Scott West went to Japan expecting trouble.
A veteran anti-porpoise hunting activist, West documents and protests the killing of the mammals. His actions are deeply unpopular in many of the Japanese coastal communities that cling to the tradition of catching and eating whale.
West's organization, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has a long and colorful history of clashing with the Japanese. In the Animal Planet series "Whale Wars," Sea Shepherd volunteers impede Japanese whale fishing off the coast of Antarctica.
Their tactics include placing their boats in front of whaling ships, attempting to carry out citizen's arrests of the Japanese crew and heaving acid stink bombs onto the vessels. For their efforts, the Sea Shepherd volunteers have had flash bang grenades thrown at them, their boats sunk in collisions and detainment for days by the Japanese crews.
The show has made the Sea Shepherd members reality TV stars and notorious in Japan.
March 11 started like many other days for Scott West. He was in an unfriendly territory, a small Japanese coastal town where a porpoise hunt was under way and the efforts of outsiders to document the slaughter were not welcome.
West led a five person Sea Shepherd team of Mike Vos, Tarah Millen, Carisa Webster and Marley Daviduk to the town of Otsuchi, Japan. They were joined by Brian Barnes a cameraman from Save Japan Dolphins, a group that often collaborates with Sea Shepherd.
The activists had other company, as well.
Closely monitoring the group were two plain clothes Japanese policemen the activists nicknamed "Turner and Hooch," for the Tom Hanks comedy about a cop and his sidekick, a dog.
As detailed in the Academy Award winning documentary "The Cove," the relationship between anti-porpoise hunt activists and Japanese authorities often becomes a game of cat and mouse. The police try to impede the activists from documenting the killing of the dolphins. The activists use disguises and other sleights of hand to keep the police off their tails.
A former EPA and customs investigator, West said he is still able to think like law enforcement agents. And he recounts with a smile how he managed to lose Turner and Hooch at a traffic light with some creative driving as they tried to shadow his group.
West is back in his home in Edmonds, Washington. It's been just over 24 hours since he returned from Japan and four days since the earthquake and tsunami that wrecked much of the country. As he thinks of the two cops back in Otsuchi his mood darkens. "You know those guys are probably dead," he said.
When the earthquake hit in Otsuchi, about 94 miles from Sendai, the quake's epicenter, the activists were at the town's port waiting for the porpoise fishing boats to return with their catch.
"The car was rocking and rolling it was actually jumping on the pavement like a frog," West said. "We got out of the cars and it was almost impossible to stand up. The ground was heaving. It lasted for a long time."
Immediately seafood workers got out of factories as the town loud speakers called for residents to seek higher ground.
The six activists jumped into their two cars and made for the hills. It was a snap decision that West believes saved their lives.
"If we had stayed where we were, they probably would have never found our bodies or our cars," West said.
West estimates that the drive to higher ground took them about eight minutes. In that time the first tsunami waves already crashed into the town. Video West took from the hillside shows fishing ships fighting the incoming rush of water to get to the open ocean and safety. Houses can be seen being dragged out to sea by the monster waves.
On the hillside, the activists were joined by a handful of rescue workers and a Japanese woman.
"It was impossible to comprehend the amount of devastation and the human misery," West said "How many people got to the hill? There were only a handful of us up there. Why aren't there thousands here with us?"
In the video he took from the hill, West narrates as a wave heads toward the area below where they have sought refuge. "Look at the black one heading toward us," he said. An aftershock rocks the activists. "This is scary s**t," a woman says off camera.
As darkness fell, the tsunami waves continued sweeping into the town below them. The rescue workers on the hill left to begin their work and check on their own homes. The activists and the Japanese woman who also made it to the hill took turns warming themselves in the cars.
Over the roar of the waves they heard a voice. "We could hear this woman screaming out in the water," West said. "It was dim out there and all this debris was out there and then we could make out her form on a pile of debris. "
The activists tried to reach her but were pushed back the waves still topping the tsunami wall. They commandeered an abandoned fire truck and the Japanese woman with them used the loud speaker to call to fishing boats off the coast.
"We quit hearing her," West said of the trapped woman. "I don't know if it was because she grew weary or from exhaustion or she floated too far away. But then her voice would come back."
The boats came near to where the woman was floating but the group could not make out if they rescued her. "We don't know if the boats found her but we certainly hope they did," West said. "We heard her voice no more and the sound of her pleas in Japanese are a sound that will stay with me the rest of my life."
The next morning the group marched out of the town that was shrouded in a fog of burning wreckage and diesel.
West calls it a journey through a "post-apocalyptic world." The photos he took along the trip show enormous tsunami barriers torn and twisted by the waters, a person being plucked from a roof top by a rescue helicopter and fields of debris that were once people's homes.
And there are photos of a human body hanging in a tree.
The group came across a teenager still in his school uniform wandering the debris fields. They tried to get him to come with them. Unable to communicate with the activists, the teenager walked away in another direction.
The finally made found a group of Japanese people huddled over a campfire. Their house was destroyed but they offered the travelers soup. West said they felt bad but receiving food from them but "it would have been rude to have refused and it was welcome."
West said he and his companions were only able to leave the devastation through the kindness of Japanese people they encountered along their journey and who they could just barely communicate with.
One man, West said, pantomimed for the group to stay put and then returned with cars to drive them from the disaster area. The Japanese, West said, refused to take anything more than gas money.
Back at his home in Edmonds, West has been able to take a hot shower and sleep in a real bed if not yet fully absorb his ordeal.
West's views on the porpoise hunts haven't changed. But he has invited many of the Japanese people he knows to come stay in his family's home as they try flee the damage and radiation released by the quake. He is more than 4,000 miles from Japan but still feels like he is on the hilltop being battered by the tsunami waves.
"My wife's been saying, 'what if?' I hadn't really allowed myself to go there," West said. "The six of us made it, we are fine, we are home with our families but so many other people didn't make it."'Whale Wars' activist survives quake
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Prince launches innovative new drive to protect red squirrels
The Prince of Wales has launched a drive to save the nation’s red squirrels by planting more trees where the animals are still surviving and killing greys in the surrounding area.
The Prince of Wales is backing a scheme to protect red squirrels in the north of England
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By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent 3:49PM GMT 17 Feb 2011
Red squirrels have been almost wiped out in Britain since the introduction of their grey cousins from North America at the end of the 19th century, except for a few pockets such as the north of England.
In the past conservation programmes have focused on protecting the colonies that are still left from encroachment by greys, which spread a deadly pox and compete for food sources.
But in an innovative new approach the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, that was launched by the Prince over a year ago, is piloting a new approach.
There are 17 red squirrel strongholds in northern England with an estimated 140,000 red squirrels left in Britain, but more than 2.5 million greys, according to the Forestry Commission.
Red Squirrels Northern England will attempt to expand and even join up where possible the red squirrels ‘hot spots’. The innovative project will see volunteers planting trees to create green corridors and new habitat so the animals can move around more easily and grow their populations.
At the same time more than one thousand volunteers will help to control the grey squirrel population in the surrounding area by trapping and killing the animals.
It is hoped the five year scheme will help red squirrels to re-establish in the area and perhaps even spread.
The Prince of Wales has described red squirrels as “one of the most charming and irresistable of British native mammals” and is supporting a project to reintroduce the species in the south west.
But animal rights activists argue greys do not have to be killed to protect the reds, for example by vaccinating against the pox and managing woodland correctly.The Telegraph...
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Japan's dolphin slaughter: cruelty or custom?
By Justin McCurry
Created September 30, 2010 06:57
Not much has changed a year after Taiji fishermen were exposed for killing dolphins.
OSAKA, Japan — A year after the Oscar award-winning documentary "The Cove" alerted the world to Japan’s annual slaughter and sale of thousands of dolphins, the waters off Taiji are again running red with cetacean blood.
After months of fielding the unwelcome attentions of the global media, fishermen in the isolated town of 3,500 people on Japan’s Pacific coast have resumed their slaughter, determined, they say, to protect a centuries-old tradition.
According to reports in Japan, about 20 bottlenose dolphins were caught within hours of the launch of the current season, which began earlier this month.
Some of the 2,300 bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales Taiji hopes to catch before the season ends in March will be sold to sea parks and aquariums around the world, with the best specimens fetching up to $150,000.
Many more will be harpooned to death in the notorious cove that gave the film its name.
As international media coverage fades, an eclectic army of animal rights activists has pledged to increase pressure on the Taiji authorities and the Japanese government until the killing stops.
They include Scott West, a member of the marine conservation group Sea Shepherd, who is attempting to document the hunt with his 16-year-old daughter, Elora.
West, a former special agent with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, played down criticisms of Sea Shepherd’s direct tactics, as witnessed in recent anti-whaling campaigns in the Southern Ocean.
He said he and the group’s founder, Paul Watson, had agreed to adopt a low-key approach in Taiji. “We came here determined not to get arrested,” he said. “That wouldn’t help our cause at all. We are being law-abiding and open about everything we do.”
Elora, who is blogging about her time in Taiji, said: “I wish I could explain how it makes me feel when I see dolphins being slaughtered. You feel angry and you want to cry, but you also want to laugh at the fishermen’s ignorance of what wonderful creatures these are.”
Earlier this month, the star of "The Cove," Ric O’Barry, presented the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo with a petition signed by 1.7 million people in more than 150 countries, calling for an end to the hunts.
O’Barry, a former dolphin trainer for the 1960s TV series "Flipper," said: “We have come to ask President Obama to get involved in this issue and ask the Japanese government to abolish this annual, anachronistic, brutal slaughter of dolphins.”
The 70-year-old had to abandon a planned trip with other activists to Taiji after receiving threats from extreme right-wing groups that object to what they see as attempts by the environmental lobby to deprive fishermen of their livelihoods.
The same groups protested outside several Japanese cinemas that screened "The Cove" this summer, a move O’Barry said had simply brought the film extra publicity.
“I want to thank the right-wing for their campaign,” he said. “Without them 'The Cove' would not have been as popular here as it was.”
The Society to Seek the Restoration of Sovereignty harassed "The Cove’s" Japanese distributor, Unplugged, claiming that the film “intentionally distorts Japanese people's food culture, and showing it will hurt many people's feelings.”
O’Barry, whose TV follow-up to "The Cove," "Blood Dolphins," has just aired on the Animal Planet channel, believes it is time for the anti-hunt lobby to change tactics.
"Maybe it's time to back off,” he said. “Japanese people have to get involved in this issue. There are groups out there calling for a boycott of Japanese goods, but I am involved in an anti-boycott campaign. We want people to go to Taiji and spend money in its hotels, restaurants and shops. We want to stimulate Taiji’s economy, not ruin it.
“I like Taiji, and its people. The vast majority of fishermen there do not kill dolphins. It is only 26 guys who have given the place a huge amount of negative publicity around the world.”
But the siege mentality that gripped Taiji’s residents during the height of "The Cove’s" popularity returned this month with the arrival of activists determined to maintain pressure on the town’s dolphin hunters.
Earlier this week Black Fish, a little-known European group, claimed its divers had cut the nets of six holding pens in an attempt to free captured dolphins. No arrests were made, the group said on its website.
West said fishermen had confronted him and his daughter earlier this week as they attempted to film them loading tanks of live dolphins on to trucks.
Despite the resumption of the dolphin cull, he believes "The Cove’s" message has started to resonate among some Japanese.
“I’ve met several people who said they’d heard about Taiji and wanted to see it for themselves. But I don’t think there will be change until the Japanese government understands that what happens here stains the reputation of an entire nation.”
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Bea Arthur continues her activism in death
April 22, 2010 | 11:20 am
Through an unusual bequest in her will, the late Bea Arthur will remain an animal activist in her death.
Arthur, who died nearly a year ago on April 25, at the age of 86, and was one of PETA's "most stalwart supporters," according to a press release, is featured in an ad targeting McDonald's that uses the slogan, "McCruelty: It's enough to make Bea Arthur roll over in her grave."
The "McCruelty" campaign, which debuts in the Chicago Tribune today, criticizes McDonald's for refusing to require suppliers to switch to USDA-approved chicken-slaughter practices.
--Maria Elena FernandezBea Arthur continues her activism in death
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April 10, 2010 4:17 a.m. EDT
(CNN) -- Tragedy struck at a Pennsylvania circus Friday after a startled elephant stomped its trainer to death, police said.
People at the Irem Shrine in Wilkes-Barre, which has been hosting the James Hamid Circus all week, rushed to help but not before the trainer sustained life-threatening injuries, said police Lt. Steven Oshefski.
It was unclear what spooked the elephant, but the pachyderm was calmed by those on the scene.
The victim is not being identified until next-of-kin have been notified, Oshefski said.
The incident was classified as a workplace accident and the investigation has been turned over to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
A balloon vendor at the circus told CNN affiliate WBRE that the death was shocking.
"In the 30 years I've been doing my vending, I've never heard an animal killing their trainer and all," said Ed Conrad. "So something must have happened."
Oshefski said the elephant came into contact with electrical wires, but it was unclear what exactly startled the animal.
Animal rights activists decried the use of animals in circuses.
"It should come as no surprise that elephants and other animals sometimes snap and attack circus employees and members of the public," said Robbyn Brooks of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
"PETA has obtained shocking photos and video of circus trainers as they beat elephants and subject them to violent training methods using barbaric devices such as bullhooks," Brooks said.
Circus members observed a moment of silence for the elephant handler who died, WBRE reported. The circus, however, made a decision almost immediately after the death that the performance would go on.
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Switzerland will hold a referendum next month on whether domesticated animals should have the right to be represented by lawyers in court.
Farmers and the government are against the proposal, but the issue will be put to a nationwide vote after animal rights activists collected enough signatures to put the measure on the ballot.
"Animal rights advocates are useless to animals," a committee composed of members of various political parties and called No to the Useless Animal Lawyers' Initiative told The Sunday Times.
"They can't prevent animal abuse because they only get involved after it has been perpetrated."
But Antoine Goetschel, a lawyer who in 2007 was appointed the "animal advocate" of Zurich, disagrees.
"Humans accused of animal cruelty can hire a lawyer or get one assigned but animals can't," he said. "Which is where I come in."
"Pet keepers think that a so-called love for a guinea pig is enough," he told The Sunday Times. "But this ignores the animal's needs as a species, such as having a companion."Switzerland will hold a referendum next month on whether domesticated animals should... more
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many people could care less about factory farming and the killing of frogs, but how about your pets, cats and dogs are routinely slaughter by factories that provide animals for dissection in school across America...You money ,tax dollars are funding this!!!!WARNING: CONTENT WILL BE DISTURBING TO MANY VIEWERS
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If you care anything about primates, hypocrisy or justice, you’re going to want to read this blog entry from Priscilla Feral, President of Friends of Animals.
In a nutshell, PeTA is, for the third time, again suing Primarily Primates, Inc., a non-profit animal sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas that is managed by Friends of Animals (FoA) and operates solely to house and rehabilitate various non-native animals, such as primates, birds and an African lion.
These animals are typically the throwaways from pet trade and biomedical research facilities and without PPI’s intervention would have had an uncertain future – if any at all.
After two unsuccessful lawsuits, both of which were dismissed for unsubstantiated claims, one would think PeTA would not only examine its own agenda for legitimacy, but seriously reconsider wasting further donation dollars on giddy court cases. But, as Feral writes in her blog;
“As a $30 million per year organization, PETA can afford to file all the frivolous lawsuits it wants, hire as many lawyers as it wants, and make all of the frivolous arguments it wants. However, PETA is hard-pressed to explain how this lawsuit helps any of the animals in PPI’s care…”
The mission statement of Friends of Animals is to ‘cultivate a respectful view of nonhuman animals, free-living and domestic.’ They engage in nationwide spay and neuter campaigns, strongly support veganism and are staunch advocates for animal care, activism and compassion. Funny, but according to PeTA’s PR machines, they do, too.
So, we’ll be watching this case closely in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we hope you will send a letter to PeTA expressing your outrage that donation dollars are being spent on eating one of their own.
Personal Note:
I have always been a strong supporter of PETA. I have also supported Friends of Animals and many other organizations that promote animal rights, animal welfare legislation and environmental ethics. So, readining a post like this is disturbing.
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This video shows you a little information about the Humane Society of the United States or H$U$ -- is a tax-free corporation that supports terrorist organizations while pretending to the public that they raise funds to provide shelter to homeless animals. Terrorist? What can I possibly mean? Watch ...This video shows you a little information about the Humane Society of the United... more
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The Croatian organisation Animal Friends is claiming "cruel fur fashions" are a violation of animal rights.The Croatian organisation Animal Friends is claiming "cruel fur fashions"... more
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Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty SHAC
This is a group considered 'terrorists' by the government and now in prison for their website, not their actions. They were tried on the basis that their website could provoke people into doing illegal actions.Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty SHAC
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WE NEED YOUR HELP! Help us to support the valuable work that animal rights groups do by attaching this video to your Myspace, Facebook or any website page that will be viewed by the public.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is one non-profit animal rights organisation that is actively involved in the protection of sea wildlife. They are currently out at sea intervening with the Japanese whaling ships with the hope of saving whales and stopping the illegal trade altogether. Their previous campaigns have cost the whaling trade millions of dollars, and their recent campaign has successfully prevented the death of any whales.
Orchestral art-rock band, The Red Paintings, collaborated with the Sea Shepherd to record this song the night before their ship, the 'Steve Irwin', left Australia for their latest campaign in Antarctic waters. Lyrics were written by lead singer, Trash McSweeney in conjunction with the Sea Shepherd's founder, Captain Paul Watson.
For more information about how to donate to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society or to read updates written by the Captain and his crew out at sea, go to seashepherd.org or myspace.com/captainpaulwatsonWE NEED YOUR HELP! Help us to support the valuable work that animal rights groups do... more
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At first, when PETA offered Michael Vick a chance to star in a PSA against dog fighting, he jumped at the opportunity, probably hoping it would help clear his name.At first, when PETA offered Michael Vick a chance to star in a PSA against dog... more
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SICK animal rights activists threatened to STAB people with needles and give them Aids in a seven-year campaign of terror.
Innocent men were branded paedophiles and hoax letter bombs were sent in a bid to scare firms into severing links with animal testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Workers were tormented with vicious phone calls, vandalism, messages daubed in paint and used sanitary towels in the post.
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