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JANUARY 9, 2009

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. Thoroughly researched and annotated, The Longest Struggle reflects its author's two decades as an animal rights activist and his access to movement leaders who have shared with him their personal stories of campaigns that made animal rights history.

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JUNE 4, 2009

Tags: animal rights animal welfare. Here's one perspective. See if you can figure out when the author starts talking about PETA. She doesn't mention it by name, but who else could it be?).

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MAY 14, 2009

Tags: animal rights social justice. Thanks to Provoked for posting this video. It states our case eloquently.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Some of the groups attending will be: FARM In Defense of Animals Sea Shepherd ACT Radio Anti-Fur Society E/Environmental Mag Eko Zone Healing Species League of Humane Voters Mercy For Animals Stop Animal Exploitation Now! Tags: animal rights. It sounds like they are participating in some form or another.

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APRIL 12, 2009

Tags: animal law conferences. It's in Los Angeles this year.

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APRIL 15, 2010

According to our government, the animal rights and environmental movements are the number one domestic terrorism threat in the United States. Was Tim McVeigh who blew up the Oklahoma Federal Building an animal rights/environmental activist? What about militias? White supremacists? This is absolutely unfair.

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JANUARY 9, 2010

I think that they are effective and, while I don't always agree with them, we would sorely miss them if they disappeared from the animal rights community. Tags: animal rights political movement PETA. They have an energy and edginess that is fundamental to the movement. They keep people on their toes.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

A federal grand jury has indicted an animal rights activist who refused to testify about the release of thousands of mink from Utah ranches. Jordan Halliday, 22, served several months in jail for contempt of court after he said he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination. I'm late on this one.

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MARCH 29, 2009

All I know is that the majority of vegetarians, ex-vegetarians, animal rights supporters, animal rescuers, animal shelter volunteers, and feral cat colony stewards that I know are women. Tags: animal rights. It's an intriguing question that would probably get quite a response at any dinner party.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Malaysia, under pressure from animal rights activists, is going to investigate Progenix Labs. Malaysia is considering shutting down a controversial British-funded animal testing lab if there is evidence of cruelty there, the goverment's top veterinary official said on Sunday. Tags: animal research malaysia.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!" From Oregonlive.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

To which I say, many universities are just as opaque and irresponsible in their animal care as any private sector entity. I'm as skeptical about this claim as other animal rights advocates. Tags: animal research hamner institutes university of chapel hill.

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JUNE 24, 2010

MALAYSIA will not shut down a controversial British-funded animal testing lab after investigations showed that the animals were not exposed to torture, a senior official said on Thursday. Tags: animal research malaysia.

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OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia.

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MAY 11, 2009

And it's especially the case in animal rights advocacy. Tags: animal rights advocacy. There's always a dilemma in debating any issue as to whether one should rely on emotion or reason to advance one's argument. You'll find this dilemma surrounding issues such as the death penalty, abortion and gay marriage.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

The "brave" animal researchers are taking their argument to the public and bypassing animal right activists. Thanks to animal research, you won't." I for one welcome them coming out of the woodwork and forcing animal research into the public forum. Tags: animal experimentation medical research.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

That's because of a little-known state law that requires government-run pounds to turn animals over to researchers if asked. The practice gained wider publicity after the animal rights group PETA said earlier this month that 1 of its agents spent eight months working undercover at University of Utah research facilities.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Sounds awful. From the MetroWest Daily News.

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MAY 17, 2010

Aside from their support of animal research, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. It's not just a question of animal rights. Tags: animal research Stupid KFC farm animal welfare susan g. for cancer research. That stuff is horrible!

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically. Statutes banning animal fighting have a specific exemption for dog training. And while South Carolina's attorney general says animal cruelty laws prohibit bear baying, he hasn't prosecuted any cases.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Why should an animal suffer excruciating pain so a women can dab makeup on her face? Tags: animal rights. Most of the women I know don’t even benefit from the makeup. Either you have beauty or you don’t. Get over it. I just don’t understand it.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

I do believe they want prestige, tenure, royalties and patent rights. I don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists. I think they are clever cowards who use extremists to hide their work and to obfuscate the truth about what they do to animals and whether it is truly necessary.

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APRIL 4, 2009

The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.

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MARCH 19, 2009

"Our Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance Programs are designed to demonstrate the care we are giving to our animals everyday on our farms," Cunningham said. Tags: animal cruelty pigs pork farm animal welfare factory farm animal welfare. I have a hard time with the logic of that statement.

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MAY 24, 2009

From the press release: “To characterize protest and speech as terrorist activities is ludicrous,” said Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) cooperating attorney Matthew Strugar. And it is not just animal rights activists who are in danger here. Tags: animal experimentation AETA 4.

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JANUARY 11, 2009

I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless. Tags: animal research.

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JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. Tags: animal experimentation animal research activism animal rights medical research. I especially like these suggestions.

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JUNE 9, 2009

It's one that's brought on, no doubt, by the acts of vandalism and intimidation of radical animal-rights groups, but I think it also serves to insulate the research community from any responsibility it might otherwise have to increase transparency and public engagement with the work.

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MAY 28, 2009

So why is one type of animal cruelty (dogfighting) more reprehensible than another (lobster-boiling)? If you are a non-meat-eating, non-leather-wearing, non-shampoo-using, animal-rights activist for PETA, then it is not hypocritical to judge Vick for animal abuse.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) has been staging protests at a local restaurant that serves foie gras. I guess small protests like NARN's seem futile when compared to the overwhelming issue of animal welfare, but you have to think that a number of small protests over time can have a large cumulative impact.

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