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Forget About Equal, How About Alive

Animal Person

Desperate to drive up prices by stemming the gusher of unwanted milk, a dairy industry group, the National Milk Producers Federation, has been paying farmers to send herds to slaughter. We here in America claim we love dogs. Since January the program has culled about 230,000 cows nationwide." They're our "best friends."

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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

Animal Ethics

Bush signed the “ Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act ” into law this past Monday (November 27, 2006). The law protects animal enterprises from courses of conduct designed to disrupt their normal profitable functioning. 4239 , dubbed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. With surprisingly little fanfare, President George W.