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PETA Attacks Jack Hanna

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Sea World has hired him to defend the use of captive whales. PETA calls him an animal pimp "entertainer." You can read some pretty strong words from PETA here. Tags: Sea World captivity killer whales entertainment Orcas PETA.

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PETA's Orca Lawsuit Dismissed by Federal Judge

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Do whales deserve constitutional protection against slavery? PETA filed the lawsuit in the U.S. PETA went on to request that the whales be freed and released to a habitat better suited to their needs. Full story posted on Global Animal and from the Huffington Post. Five orcas were listed as the plaintiffs.

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PETA to Replace Offensive Billboard

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PETA has decided to replace the billboard in Florida that compares overweight women to whales. Tags: PETA. They said they never meant to offend anyone.

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PETA Goes After The Overweight

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PETA put up a billboard in Florida that says "Save the Whales, Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian". But, when they start throwing around words like "whale" and "blubber", they're guaranteed to lose their potential audience on that one. Tags: PETA. On it, is an overweight woman standing on a beach. And rightly so.

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US Judge Asked to Hear Case about Orcas

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US District Judge Jeffrey Miller called the hearing in San Diego after Sea World asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that names five orcas as plaintiffs in the case.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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As you can see here , PETA does not even address these issues at all, while portraying themselves as indeed giving a damn. It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys.

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Efforts to Rescue Lolita the Orca from Miami

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They sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for excluding captive killer whales from listing under the Endangered Species Act. The federal complaint focuses on a whale named Lolita, who was captured more than 40 years ago, and has been held at the Miami Seaquarium.

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