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AUGUST 14, 2009

The protest happened on Wednesday. Tags: animal testing animal cruelty military pigs medical research PETA. I'm late on this one. But it's worth noting that someone out there took some action on this gruesome story. And that's what I like about PETA and why I recently became a member for the first time.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

This protest comes after an undercover PETA investigator collected evidence of alleged animal abuse in the University laboratories. Tags: animal research utah medical research PETA.

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OCTOBER 9, 2008

Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN) will be staging protests at this fur store in Everett, WA. Tags: seattle fur. The company is Terry L. Fieck Furs. Here is their idea of a fur coat. Nice and GREEN! Literally and sarcastically.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Tags: mexico blood sport bullfighting.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Tags: animal research activism oregon national primate research center oregon. The group and Animal Defense League say 259 primates at the research center have been abused or deprived of food and clean cages, citing an annual report that the primate center files with the USDA.

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MAY 25, 2010

These people are protesters, not terrorists. Lesley Hill Peters, suggested that the protesters could also face terrorism-related charges. Tags: louisiana animal enterprise terrorism act Stupid British Petroleum 2010 oil spill. This is just a tool to silence criticism of large corporations. From the New York Times' Green Blog.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

Tags: oceans captivity dolphin Gretchen the animal hater. “Dolphins are extremely intelligent and they get bored to death when they have to do the same things over and over,” he said. They have larger brains than their trainers and they’ve been around a lot longer than we have.”.

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JULY 19, 2010

He planted petrol bombs at Oxford University to protest plans to build an animal research laboratory. Tags: UK activism animal rights animal laboratories. A British animal rights activist is starting a prison sentence after being found guilty of (I think) conspiracy to commit arson.

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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). Tags: Activism Film Gray Matters. But that's me.

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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. Tags: canada animal enterprise terrorism act seals PETA. It's pretty scary that a Liberal MP would actually question whether a pie in the face is terrorism.

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JANUARY 30, 2010

In other news, PETA received more publicity for their anti seal hunting campaign when one of their protesters was hit in the face with a pie. Tags: seal hunters PETA. This after a PETA activist hit Canada Fisheries Minister Gail Shae with a pie. That's good, because I really hate Canada's odious seal hunt.

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests. The group was formed to protest the activities of Huntingdon Life Sciences in Franklin Township, N.J. Tags: huntingdon animal enterprise protection act.

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MAY 24, 2009

From the press release: “To characterize protest and speech as terrorist activities is ludicrous,” said Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) cooperating attorney Matthew Strugar. The AETA is so broad and unclear it could be used to suppress lawful protests and boycotts by any activists across the spectrum, no matter what the issue.

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OCTOBER 9, 2010

She's accusing him of being a "monkey mutilator" and plans protests with other animal-rights activists at the UF football game today and at the researcher's neighborhood in the coming weeks. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates. website, where she posted the researcher's address and a picture of his home.

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MARCH 23, 2010

Sea Shepherd doesn’t protest, Sea Shepherd intervenes against illegal activity. Tags: sea shepherd. “The fact is, they’re exceeding their quota limits in the Mediterranean and they’re doing that every year. So it doesn’t affect our campaign,” he says.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Both groups will be protesting the seal hunt using the Olympic torch ceremony as the backdrop. Tags: IFAW PETA. 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.

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2009

A protest will be held today at the UCD Quad (1 Shields Ave.), Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty. The others are the University of Michigan and University of Louisiana/New Iberia. sponsored by SAEN {Stop Animal Exploitation Now}, an Ohio-based animal research watchdog group.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. Yes, I sent the protest. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Tags: PETA. The stupid.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

According to a communique received by Bite Back , they did this in protest of Max Mara's use of furs. Tags: fur ALF. ALF activists in Polanco Mexico bombed a Max Mara clothing shop. Max Mara is an Italian fashion house. You can read about them here. With this sabotage we join the international week against MaxMara.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Next time, though, I might want to hook up with an animal rights group to protest. Tags: portuguese-americans california bullfighting. They are just stupid and really have nothing to do with religion. Anyway, here is an article that describes the practice and provides some background on the Portuguese-Americans in California.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

In a co-ordinated protest, members of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) destroyed hundreds of traps and set free the birds inside. Tags: poaching france endangered species. Now France can add another to its long list of gastronomic sins.eating ortolan, an endangered songbird. From the Guardian.

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APRIL 4, 2009

Plus, animals are messy, require feeding and constant care, draw protests, and, yes, can be a bit smelly. Tags: animal experimentation medical research. Indeed, it often isn't even the best science: New drugs that show great promise in mice, for example, often confer zero benefit to humans, or even prove harmful.

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JULY 19, 2009

If you and a friend GO ON THE WEB AND RESEARCH THE COMPANY whose practices you plan to protest, you may have just become a terrorist. Tags: animal enterprise terrorism act.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Tags: ethics animal rights medical research. [Maria's] strong opinions have made her somewhat of an outcast, even among old friends: "Some of them think that I'm totally insane, and then there is people at work, some of them understand to a degree, but some of them think that I'm the craziest thing they ever met." The article continues.

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Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

Felicia Horton inquires/protests: "If they're cutting up [animals], are you going to want to come up front an eat some meat?" Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Felicia and Bobby Horton, the owners of Subway sandwich shop, are concerned about odors (presumably mal odors) that could possibly come from the slaughterhouse.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

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JANUARY 9, 2009

Tags: animal rights. 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".

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

I know plenty of people still detest Vick for what he did, but if there are protesters at his games or outside the Eagles’ training facility, I haven’t heard about them. Tags: Michael Vick sick. These are his thoughts. But where's PETA? I don't get it.

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

But Foot doesn't buy it and asks--again-- Yet over the long history of animal rights activism in Canada, it's hard to find evidence that the larger aims of such protests are ever achieved. Notwithstanding their local tactical victories, are animal rights protesters really as effective as they appear?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2009

The same could be said for any policeman and Sea Shepherd is not down here to protest whaling, we are down here to obstruct illegal whaling as defined under international conservation law. Tags: sea shepherd. We are down here to enforce the law, not to break it.".

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Jentsch talks about the cost ("it's hard to put a price tag on") of protecting those like him, so we definitely know that the tactics of those who seek to defend animals are working on one level (economic harm, though once removed at least in this situation). Peaceful protests were ignored, as well. Home protests were ignored also.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 6, 2009

As I have suggested above, vegetarianism may have a protest or symbolic function. It might be suggested that although becoming a vegetarian as a protest against animal suffering or a way of committing oneself to helping the hungry people of the world is not a moral duty, it is still a moral act; it is a supererogatory act.

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