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JANUARY 9, 2010

My husband and I disagree over PETA's effectiveness. I think this opinion piece does a good job arguing in favor of PETA. 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. They keep people on their toes.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Some of the animals are 60 years old and veterans of the US space program. Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health PETA new mexico. The Governor of New Mexico has already met with the National Institutes of Health to try and stop this transfer with no apparent success.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2009

But it certainly raised my awareness that animals are used in military trauma-training exercises. Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and poisoned every year in Department of Defense (DoD) training exercises designed to train medics and infantry in how to treat various human battlefield injuries.

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DECEMBER 25, 2009

Now PETA is saying that the NIH (National Institutes of Health) should take back the grant money it gave the university. Tags: animal research Kansas PETA. Sorry for the cynicism, but.HAH! Good luck with that argument! The NIH doesn't take back grant money.

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APRIL 15, 2010

PETA is arguing that this practice violates New York's anti-cruelty laws. Tags: octopus New York animal cruelty restaurants PETA. Octopus are highly intelligent creatures.not that ANY creature should suffer like this. It's apparently a practice around the world. This link has a video with some examples.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The PETA activist who worked undercover at the University of Utah, and collected video footage of alleged mistreatment of lab animals, was also involved in an operation at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Tags: university research animal research undercover investigation PETA. I say "good for her!"

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AUGUST 14, 2009

And that's what I like about PETA and why I recently became a member for the first time. Tags: animal testing animal cruelty military pigs medical research PETA. But it's worth noting that someone out there took some action on this gruesome story. They are fast, organized, committed and they get attention.

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MARCH 25, 2009

The disfigured pop star Michael Jackson has been criticized by PETA for his use of exotic animals. Animal rights group PETA have condemned Michael Jackson's apparent plans to ride an elephant on stage at his forthcoming London residency. Tags: exotic pets freaks.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

There are too many animals out there and not enough homes. If they love animals so much, love the ones who NEED homes! Why does this attitude need to extend to animals? Tags: breeders dogs PETA. Why don't they stop making things worse? It's plain supply and demand.

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JUNE 6, 2009

I recently became a member of PETA because I admire their investigative arm and their ability to get media attention. And I think that, yes, there is a place for shock value in the animal rights movement. But sometimes, well, PETA does overdo it. In fact, I think it also articulates Mr. Barky's problems with PETA as well.).

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MARCH 28, 2009

PETA wants to run a campaign that compares factory farming to the Holocaust. The German constitutional court has ruled that animal rights organisation PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) must end its campaign in which it draws a comparison between the Holocaust and industrial farming.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

She's referring to the pie thrown in the face of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea by a PETA member protesting the Canadian seal hunt. I'm wondering whether the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in the US is making the rounds of Canadian politicians. Tags: canada animal enterprise terrorism act seals PETA.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

An undercover PETA investigator shot hours of footage of alleged mistreatment of animals. It's a remarkably banal list of ordinary events in an animal-care facility." Failed to ensure that experiments minimized discomfort, distress and pain to the animals. s vice president for research. Certainly a case to follow.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

From PETA's site: A new PETA undercover investigation inside a Land O'Lakes supplier facility in Pennsylvania has revealed routine neglect and cruelty to cows who are milked for the Fortune 250 company's products. And the disturbing video: Tags: animal cruelty PETA. Not a pretty picture.

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JUNE 16, 2009

PETA has launched a spoof site for the Vancouver Olympic Games over seal hunting. I criticize PETA a lot, but in this case I think they are right on the money. On environmental and animal issues, not so much. Tags: PETA. I hate the seal slaughter. I think it's barbaric and should be ended.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Following up on my post yesterday about releasing lobsters, PETA has a website on this very subject. Tags: oceans lobsters animal rescue food. Lobster Liberation!

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They're trying to get records released on animal experiments. Tags: university research university of south dakota PETA.

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JUNE 2, 2009

From the article: A national animal rights group plans to erect billboards in Wichita urging people on both sides of the abortion debate to go vegetarian. Stay classy there PETA. Tags: PETA. One version of the billboard says, "Pro-Life? Go Vegetarian." The other says, "Pro-Choice? Choose Vegetarian."

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

PETA and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) are holding a joint news conference this week, and I would like to offer you an exclusive advance scoop on it. Tags: IFAW PETA. Both groups will be protesting the seal hunt using the Olympic torch ceremony as the backdrop.

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JULY 4, 2010

Tags: animal research PETA. Interesting short interview with Kathy Guillermo.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

It will be PETA's first Olympics! People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says Vancouver's Olympic organizers have the clout to convince the Canadian government to end the controversial seal hunt on the East Coast. Tags: indigenous hunting canada seals PETA hunting. Let's see how far they take it.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2010

It was an exotic animal importing firm (why the eff do those even exist?) that was allegedly mistreating its animals. A lot of these animals are reptiles, spiders and amphibians, which explains the large number. This rescue is the result of a PETA undercover investigation. See, husband, this is why I like PETA!)

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MARCH 26, 2009

Oh PETA, my PETA. PETA is demanding that Vick be barred from the league unless he has a brain scan to prove he’s not a psychopath. From the PETA Web site: Vick’s behavior seems to fit the American Psychiatric Association profile for anti-social personality disorder (APD). They can also take pleasure in inflicting cruelty.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Awful story, but this is the reason I support PETA, even when they do wacky things sometimes. Quick work on the part of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), in partnership with the Humane Society of the U.S. Tags: animal abuse animal research cats North Carolina dogs PETA. From the PR Newswire.

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MAY 16, 2010

Anyway, I'm wondering if the decision could have been influenced by PETA's investigation of how reptiles are being skinned alive for these sales. This PETA post doesn't claim the credit though. Tags: animal cruelty exotic skins lizards. And I just bought something from them last month for the first time.

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MAY 23, 2009

I've used the term "animal activism" lately as an experiment. I notice that if I use "animal rights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. People have a relationship, whether or not they are aware, to the term "animal rights."

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JUNE 4, 2009

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

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

PETA's undercover investigation showed some really questionable practices going on in the University of Utah's animal research program. What if an animal doesn't make it through? What if an animal doesn't make it through? Tags: animal research university of utah animal shelters. So sad, too bad?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

From PETA's Animal Times (I tore out the page and there's no date anymore.but it was 2009). Tags: animal research medical research. The US Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association *March of Dimes *American Heart Association *Susan G. Komen and they are a pretty arrogant, corporate bunch (just an FYI!).

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Tags: animal research. They're trying to get documentation regarding the 100 dogs and cats sold to the University of Utah for medical experiments.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists. Tags: advocacy. In the author's words.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

This is a good argument from PETA for keeping dolphins out of aquariums. (At Tags: dolphin marine animals aquariums PETA. At my book club last week, someone actually admitted she craves fish and chips every time she goes to the aquarium!

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APRIL 23, 2010

They received citations for animal welfare infractions, although apparently few of these infractions overlap with PETA claims from an undercover investigation. Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA. You decide. From the Deseret News.

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JUNE 29, 2009

The Texas Attorney General ruled earlier this month that the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center can withhold records of a committee that oversees the use of animals in training and research. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal rescue medical research. Sherrie Carruth, told The A-J {Avalanche-Journal.}

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MAY 30, 2009

Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others. I wish their mission was to end animal agriculture.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

I realize that the most humane method of treating chickens is to not kill them for food.BUT, as long as there is still a demand for their meat, PETA is advocating "Controlled-Atmosphere Killing" as an improvement over current methods of electric immobilization. Tags: meat PETA farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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MARCH 17, 2009

PETA is trying to prevent more animals going to the Manila Zoo. They are working with local animal welfare groups on this issue. Joining PETA as the petition’s signatories are the Animal Kingdom Foundation Inc. Tags: animal welfar zoo PETA phillipines. Good for them. That's not true.

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