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Unexpected Farm Animal Deal in Ohio
From the Associated Press. Ted Strickland.The deal calls for Strickland, the Humane Society, the Ohio Farm Bureau and their partners to join forces in favor of tougher laws governing farm animals, including provisions that ban certain crates and cages and the use of strangulation as a form of euthanasia.
Critter News - Saturday, July 3, 2010
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FBI Serves Search Warrant to ALF Supporter
From the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Law enforcement there has a long-running investigation into animal releases at a University of Iowa laboratory. The FBI served a search warrant Monday on a Salt Lake City home occupied by a supporter of the Animal Liberation Front. Peter D. federal judge in Iowa issued the warrant.
Critter News - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries
Here is the press release, which explains why they are trying to do this. ALDF points to the following examples for why a registry is needed to help animal guardians, law enforcement and shelters protect their animals: Robert Rydzewski : In 2004, the then 29-year-old upstate New Yorker shot his neighbor’s dog in the face twice.
4 The Love Of Animals - Thursday, February 25, 2010
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  • Europe Votes to Ban Seal Products
    From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. Labour Euro MP Arlene McCarthy, who helped steer the ban through the European Parliament, said: "This law is a victory for people power and a credit to the campaigners involved.". That's good news.
    Critter News - Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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  • Unexpected Farm Animal Deal in Ohio
    From the Associated Press. Ted Strickland.The deal calls for Strickland, the Humane Society, the Ohio Farm Bureau and their partners to join forces in favor of tougher laws governing farm animals, including provisions that ban certain crates and cages and the use of strangulation as a form of euthanasia.
    Critter News - Saturday, July 3, 2010
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  • FBI Serves Search Warrant to ALF Supporter
    From the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Law enforcement there has a long-running investigation into animal releases at a University of Iowa laboratory. The FBI served a search warrant Monday on a Salt Lake City home occupied by a supporter of the Animal Liberation Front. Peter D. federal judge in Iowa issued the warrant.
    Critter News - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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  • India Takes More Steps to Protect Tigers
    From the Press Association. India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. But is it enough? Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh said that speeding up justice as well as hefty fines are needed to strengthen the Wildlife Protection Act.
    Critter News - Saturday, August 1, 2009
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  • Atttorney's File Motion to Dismiss Charges Against AETA 4
    From the press release: “To characterize protest and speech as terrorist activities is ludicrous,” said Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) cooperating attorney Matthew Strugar. The AETA is so broad and unclear it could be used to suppress lawful protests and boycotts by any activists across the spectrum, no matter what the issue.
    Critter News - Sunday, May 24, 2009
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  • Former Virunga Park Officials In Prison
    Four senior Wildlife Officers have been arrested and imprisoned after the state Congolese Wildlife Agency (ICCN) pressed charges for complicity in the destruction of the protected forests of Virunga National Park in the east of DR Congo. And these particular guys deserve it.
    Critter News - Saturday, April 18, 2009
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  • National Justice for Animals Week
    Here is the full press release: During its first-ever National Justice for Animals Week, February 22 – 28, 2009, the national non-profit Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) is recognizing some of the top law enforcement professionals in the nation for getting real justice for animals who are victims of abuse.
    Critter News - Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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  • Think Bush Is a Pro-Animal Environmentalist? Think Again!
    According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals. Navy to do so? Note from KBJ: I'm surprised by your title, Mylan.
    Animal Ethics - Thursday, January 17, 2008
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  • Plant Rights
    Addendum 3: When I was a law student at Wayne State University in the early 1980s, I took a graduate philosophy course in ethics with Bruce Russell. Taylor in Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). Here is an essay by Wesley J. Smith. Animals have weight on the moral scale.
    Animal Ethics - Sunday, May 4, 2008
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  • Eating Eggs is Eating Cruelty
    Birds trapped in the wire of their cages or under the feeding trays without access to food or water, some with body parts, including their faces, pressed against moving conveyor belts. Then again, I’m no lawyer - hopefully this will at least bring some changes to the law.  WHO SAYS THAT?  A sick, sick person, that’s who. 
    Creature Talk - Friday, April 3, 2009
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