Critter News
FEBRUARY 17, 2009
It will be PETA's first Olympics! All eyes are going to be on Canada as it's preparing to host the 2010 Winter Olympics and we think that all that extra attention comes with an increased responsibility to set a positive example for the rest of the world," said Lindsay Rajt, PETA's manager of campaigns. "All
Critter News
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
An animal rights group has called for a federal investigation into the death of an elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. This elephant's shocking death is another tragic example of how elephants suffer in inadequate and artificial zoo exhibits," said Catherine Doyle, elephant campaign director for the group.
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Animal Person
MAY 23, 2009
And that relationship usually has something to do with PeTA. But I don't want to talk about PeTA. A recent post by Sara Krupp (" Can Animal Activism Go Too Far? ") unfortunately equates "animal activism" with PeTA, I noticed. Weighing the Impact At some level, PETA’s tactics have worked. They've hijacked enough already!
Critter News
JANUARY 9, 2009
The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. The Longest Struggle concludes with an overview of current campaigns and tactics, and an assessment of the state of the movement as we enter a new century, including the threat represented by an overzealous "war on terror". Worth a look.
Animal Person
MAY 30, 2009
According to Parker, here are the threats: the ALF, the ELF, SHAC, PeTA and the oddest member of the group, the HSUS. Finally, there is some truth in this, but for reasons Parker is not aware of: "Millions of dollars have been raised by these activists groups under false pretenses, with the very real result of causing harm to animals.
Animal Person
APRIL 23, 2009
I broadened my groups to runners, writers, environmentalists and atheists thinking perhaps I should try to find more like-minded people in a more holistic kind of way. In other words, vegans who don't support PeTA and don't campaign for larger cages are alien to most of the non-vegan world and even much of the vegan world.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
This morning, during the Facebook discussion, Engber writes (and the first sentence is reason alone to chime in): Bring on the PETA hotties! And thanks to the efforts of groups such as PCRM, that ample use isn't so ample anymore. The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We
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