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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. You can sign up here. It sounds like they are participating in some form or another.

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JANUARY 9, 2009

In a brisk, readable narrative, The Longest Struggle traces the campaigns of animal rights pioneers like Henry Spira, Alex Hershaft, and Ingrid Newkirk, as well as leaders who have come more recently on the scene like Heidi Prescott, Karen Davis, and Bruce Friedrich. Tags: animal rights. Worth a look.

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APRIL 25, 2009

San Diego has ties to animal rights extremist groups. That's right, be on the lookout for a guy that works with LINUX. That's right, be on the lookout for a guy that works with LINUX. Tags: Linux Extremism. He is known to follow a vegan diet, eating no meat or food containing animal products.

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AUGUST 8, 2009

Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" Tags: canada blood sport polar bear hunting trophy hunting endangered species. insert crying baby picture here.) Here's the article from the Globe and Mail.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

A group calling itself Students and Workers for the Liberation of UCLA Primates burned 3 cars, none of which belonged to the individual they were targeting. Tags: ALF. ALF is disputing the notion that the wrong cars were hit.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Tags: ALF. It hasn't been your week has it, Daniel? Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. We will attack your private life wherever possible. We will destroy your life. Just remember one thing, dealing with HLS means dealing with US. You can read about it from Reuters here.

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MAY 2, 2023

It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. Geological Survey.

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Animal Person

JULY 25, 2010

Thanks, once again, to James LaVeck and Jenny Stein of Tribe of Heart for kindly and carefully bringing attention to what should be a stunningly-obvious moment of hypocrisy by groups that exist to advocate for and save animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film animal rights Tribe of Heart.

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JANUARY 11, 2009

I like reading the blog for ANIMAL, the animal rights group in Portugal. I'm Portuguese-American, which is obviously different, but I have yet to meet ANYONE in this ethnic group, hybrid or not, that agrees with me. Tags: portuguese-americans portugal animal rights. VIVA ANIMAL!

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Animal Person

MARCH 10, 2010

I credit Will Potter as the catalyst for shifting my focus away from critiques of other activists and activist groups (particularly his post, " While the Government Continues Attacks on Activists, Animal Rights Groups Protest Each Other " back in 2008). I'm not saying that criticism of PETA, or any other group, isn't warranted.

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JULY 12, 2010

Today’s Cute of the Day comes from a very unique animal rescue group. The group is called Second Acts , and though they don’t rescue animals themselves, they raise funds to help smaller rescue groups continue their good work for animals. Imagine all the rescue groups that would benefit from that.

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Critter News

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. Stop Animal Exploitation Now, an Ohio-based animal rights group, recently ranked the lab at Oregon Health & Science University as the nation's sixth worst animal lab out of 44 others.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2013

When I photographed a pair a couple of years ago that were sporting radio tags , I assumed (and it may be the case) that they were two birds of twenty tagged that year in Virginia. At the beginning of June the first shorebirds that arrived at my favourite birding spot included a small group of Red Knot.

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Critter News

MAY 5, 2010

Right now, there are still no confirmed deaths due to the spill, but rescue groups are gearing up for the worst. Tags: oil drilling 2010 oil spill Gulf of Mexico endangered species. That's when the full impact of the oil spill on wildlife will be seen.

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APRIL 16, 2009

There are a lot of similarities between that movement and today's animal rights movement (such as it is.but that's another post). Now, I'm an atheist, but I'm practical enough to realize that religious groups offer a certain weight and a lot of passion to issues they choose. Tags: activism religion animal rights.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. Brown Noddy.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

And they certainly have no right to use endangered species as performers. The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros. The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros.

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MARCH 25, 2009

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. The disfigured pop star Michael Jackson has been criticized by PETA for his use of exotic animals.

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Critter News

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. Tags: PETA. One version of the billboard says, "Pro-Life? Go Vegetarian." The other says, "Pro-Choice? Choose Vegetarian." Both feature a photo of three baby chicks.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Despite efforts by animal rights activists to stop this hunt, it is scheduled to continue. New Jersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed. Tags: cull new jersey bears hunting. On Monday, Nov.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. Tags: austria animal research pigs. From USA Today.

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DECEMBER 29, 2009

That's right, a herd of panicked elk were cornered in a cow pasture and a group of boneheads decided to "hunt" them. Tags: idiocy. Even other hunters were disgusted: "How can you call that hunting?" asked Bob Coombs, 70, of Mount Vernon. 'You That can't be called hunting.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

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." First, note that now PeTA is an "animal advocacy group."

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Critter News

APRIL 27, 2009

Lilly Tomlin is in Seattle and spoke out about the conditions of elephants at the Woodland Park Zoo on behalf of the Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN). Here is a link to the group that sponsored her visit here. Tags: zoos elephants.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

Researchers say the animals appear to be following abundant swarms of krill - the tiny, shrimp-like creatures that make up whales' favorite food group - right into the path of ship traffic. Tags: california san francisco marine life marine animals whales krill.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2009

The Humane Society and other groups oppose it as a power grab by big agriculture to prevent another Proposition 2 (the initiative passed last year in California to improve standards for farm animal care.) And, of course, this board would be dominated by big ag's people, so I think they're right. It's an issue to follow though.

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JUNE 6, 2009

And I think that, yes, there is a place for shock value in the animal rights movement. in order to always push the boundaries of debate for other groups to then follow. Tags: activism political movement PETA. I recently became a member of PETA because I admire their investigative arm and their ability to get media attention.

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MAY 26, 2009

"You see people shut down if you talk about how a rat can suffer," says Chad Sandusky, director of toxicology and research at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that fights for animal rights and advocates vegetarianism. Tags: rats animal experimentation laboratories medical research.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

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. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

In particular the South Island destination of Kaikoura is world-renowned for the flocks of albatrosses and giant petrels floating right off the pelagic boat, and the ease of the trip makes it a must-visit for any visiting birder. Wicked, right? The first to cruise past in a hurry were the stunning Cook’s Petrels. Get yours today!

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 16, 2010

I also discovered the negative affects this slow global economy has caused for these groups. The animal shelters/organizations who are hurting the most aren’t the large national groups. It’s the small local or shelters and organizations that are really struggling right now. Tags: giveaways.

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APRIL 7, 2009

They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tags: rats animal experimentation military pigs. Did you know this? car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s.

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APRIL 26, 2009

Last night, I watched "Milk," the film about assassinated gay rights activist Harvey Milk. I not only learned about Harvey Milk, but about the early stages of the gay rights movement (which is ongoing today when one looks at all the right-wing flutterings over gay marriage.) There is a group for every cause. Best Friends?

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Bowing under pressure, they are allowing an outside group of experts review their operations. think it’s an extreme animal rights organization that wants to close all zoos,” Steve Feldman {AZA spokesman} said. Tags: zoos canada. But, of course, this is really all because of some extremists who want to close down all zoos.

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DECEMBER 23, 2008

ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group that had already been having weekly actions directed at this particular shop, so they were not surprised by the venom of the owner's response. Tags: fur portugal. There were plenty of shocked witnesses and the student is going to press charges upon her return from Xmas with her family.

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DECEMBER 6, 2008

There are dog fights and dog attacks in Portugal and, per the December 5 post , the government came up with some legislation without consulting any animal rights groups. Tags: dog attacks portugal dog fighting. Essentially, it sounds like they are having the same issues as we have in the US regarding dog fights and dog attacks.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Because I've been thinking about the evolution of my own thinking--and languaging--regarding animal rights. Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. No matter how they are treated, is it right to use them? Tags: Activism Ethics Language. Why all the quotation marks?

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