Critter News
APRIL 13, 2010
So, while I understand this protester's convictions, I vehemently disagree with her methods. Tags: animal research california. I am a fervent opponent of animal research, but stalking, or any kind of threatening action, just doesn't work. It simply creates sympathy and bad pr for the rest of us. They do no good.
Critter News
OCTOBER 18, 2011
In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be banned in California. Apparently, this will happen in 8 months. I had no idea! Excerpted from The New York Times. There was even a foie gras dessert: a brownie sundae with foie gras Chantilly.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
As a Portuguese-American, I hate bullfights.and they even have the stupid things in California. Lance-wielding Spanish townspeople speared a huge fighting bull to the death Tuesday, defying a lone protester who sprayed some of them with an irritant. It's a "cultural asset." Disgusting. Excerpted from the Montreal Gazette.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I used to support the bloodless bullfights held in California. Next time, though, I might want to hook up with an animal rights group to protest. Anyway, here is an article that describes the practice and provides some background on the Portuguese-Americans in California. This was a clear violation of animal law.
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2009
The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations. A protest will be held today at the UCD Quad (1 Shields Ave.),
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
It was sent back to trial court, but by then the yearly event had become such a media circus – with live TV coverage and protesters taking down the license plates of shooters’ vehicles – that the sponsors ended it. Groups across the country, including Project Coyote in California, are fighting similar battles.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
But what we have accomplished up to this time must be multiplied a thousandfold if the great battles are to be joined and won." ( Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 399-400 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983])
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