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Western consumption of meat has nothing to do with food insecurity in the developing world.
Princeton physicist looks at what happens when animal rights religious extremists gain prominence in government.
Nelson attacks North American Vegetarian Society and Vegetarian Resource Group for being in bed with McDonald's on settlement terms.
Mills sues a school district for sending students to a rodeo -- except the district didn't send any students.
Judge calls Persky a terrorist and says she wishes she could have sentenced him to a longer term.
9th Circuit Court of Appeals decides to rewrite existing precedents for treaties with Native American Tribes.
Indian ruling party to look for someone less extreme to head up scientific research panel.
A $25,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of suspect ELF arsonist.
Hynde says if no one will listen to animal rights movement, it may take a murder.
Ten people were arrested in April of this year at a protest of a Marsh Insurance executive's home. Here's what happened to those individuals.
Vegan musician's rider for his 2002 concert tour called for 24 bars of soap made from animal fat.
Ad shows Virgin Mary cradling a dead, bleeding hare.
Animal rights activists lose in their lawsuit challenging a ban on feeding deer.
Farmers affected by new Florida law decided to slaughter pigs rather than comply with expensive legal requirements.
Alreading serving a four-and-a-half year sentence, a British judge hands down another five-and-a-half years to Blenkinsop.
A judge agrees that a search warrant served on David Barbarash was based on inadequate evidence.
Mike Durschmind keeps fighting his $100 fine for disorderly conduct.
Combination of no hunting in 2001 along with expanded use of guns nearly doubles number of foxes killed in Scotland.
SHAC activists charged with "public order offences" for holding unplanned protests.
Environmental extremist Jeff Luers is lonely in prison. Awww. Somebody really should write to him.
Two anti-fur protesters arrested outside Nieman Marcus and charged with malicious destruction of property.
Three activists receive prison sentences for animal rights-related crimes.
CCF publishes a report with some interesting quotes from SHAC activists.
Yet another episode in Great Britain's long-running fox hunting soap opera.
Group also takes credit for a whole host of other crimes in Pennsylvania area.
Ingrid Newkrik and Neal Barnard continue operating front group to hide connections between PETA and PCRM.
SHAC's National Mobile protest of Huntingdon Life Sciences only turns out 200-300 activists at HLS headquarters.
Will allow researchers to better study problem of hepatitis B reinfection after liver transplants.
Yourofsky would "unequivocally support" the killing of an "animal abuser," but maintains that killing a turkey violates standards of common decency.
Ad is completely consistent with PETA's longstanding sympathy for and support of animal rights terrorism.
Incoming governor Robert Ehrlich Jr. won rural voters over with his pro-hunting stands, and will likely approve any bear hunting season bill that cross his desk.
Kiowa Tribe representatives say the anti-cockfighting law doesn't apply to them, and they plan to begin issuing permits to allow cockfighting to legally continue.
PETA releases a photograph of EPA head Whitman with devil horns photoshopped on. How original!
After earlier rejecting a proposal to grant limited protection to whale and basking sharks, CITES passes a last minute resolution requiring countries that hunt them to prove they are not "posing a detriment to the species."
Proposed primate research center receives third planning hearing after two previous rejections based on fears of animal rights protests.
Paper mentions Florida pig vote, but leaves out Farm Sanctuary's numerous violations of election laws.
Letters and calls from hunters and fishers results in Accor ending its partnership to promote the Humane Society of the United States.
ALF steals beagles intended for medical research.
Volkert van der Graaf next undergoes psychiatric exams ahead of 2003 trial.
Six activists plead innocent to all charges, while all charges are dropped against one accused.
PSU faculty senate defends environmental extremism, but would they have maintained the same position if this had been pro-life extremism?
Roaring thought she had a way to force stations to air activist rodeo videos, but the regulations she cites haven't been in effect since 1987.
Four PETA activists take to the runway to protest a model who wasn't wearing fur.
Comparing rights of religious/racial minorities to rights of countryside dwellers results in arrest of Daily Telegraph columnist.
But local officials still don't seem to grasp the nature of ELF/ALF-style attacks.
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection is upset over a proposed animated series in Great Britain.
If fox hunting is banned, but Muslims and Jews are allowed to slaughter animals without stunning them first, does that constitute a violation of Europe's Human Rights Act?
The European Union says it reached agreement to ban animal tests on consumer products, but the ban probably won't take place in our lifetime.
PETA hands out misleading stickers that likely promote rather than dissuade children from smoking.
Biotech company creates 'knock-in' mouse that contains human mutation believed to cause epilepsy.
Bill Dollinger is unhappy with Moore's advocacy of hunting.
Canadian papers refuse to run PETA ad comparing victims of alleged serial killer to animals killed for food.
After critics point to hypocrisy between fox policy and ritual slaughter, UK says it is reviewing ritual slaughter regulations.
Bruce Friedrich and PETA apparently think parents are feeding infants cow's milk.
Singer poses with a skinned fox declaring "Here's the rest of your fur coat."
Fire that started in one truck spread quickly to another and could have caused a nightmare if it had spread to a nearby factory.
Several Floridians associated with greyhound racing are accused of animal torture in deaths of thousands of greyhounds.
In which Kjonaas offers yet another lame excuse for supporting animal rights terrorism.
Some people are lactose intolerant, David Duke is intolerant, so milk is bad. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me either.
OSU President says university will continue research that follows FIV progress in cats who are administered methamphetamines.
Procedural misunderstanding by Sweden leads to restoration of Iceland's voting rights on IWC.
Virginia legislature authorized pro-fox hunting license plate.
A total of 12 people are now under indictment in Massachussetts in connection with animal rights extremism.
Village attorney warns Board that the change could have unforseen legal consequences.
"Collective Front of Anarchist Vegetarians" spray paint a McDonald's and block traffic.
Farm Sanctuary accused of illegally taking tax-exempt contributions and funneling the funds to a political action committee.
Leave it to the Greeks to use Pasteur's rabies vaccine as an example of the failure of animal research.
Pelle Strindlund wrecked equipment at a slaughterhouse.
Activists charged with allegedly leading a campaign of harassment against officials of Marsh Insurance over its ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Faced with withdrawal of government funds and severe financial problems, Coulston Foundation sells assets to a chimpanzee conservatory.
Two social scientists are skeptical of this oft-repeated claim.
Steven Zaks writes an angry op-ed about people who call animal rights activists terrorists. Next time he might try actually addressing the issue.
Queen wears fur coat during visit to Canada and hears about it from PETA and Advocates for Animals.
An Australian feminist journal gives a favorable review to a book that claims human victims of violence are no more tragic than animals killed for food.
PETA planned to protest milk at UK grammar school, but rowdy students had another plan.
PETA spokesman says if people saw how animals were killed they would stop eating meat. Color me skeptical.
PCRM launches ad campaign this week characterizing school lunches with beef, pork and cheese as 'weapons of mass destruction.'
A poster on an animal rights list claims SHAC's offices in the UK were raided by police on October 4.
Dunayer complains that Wise and Singer won't give houseflies and honeybees rights.
Bruce Friedrich reveals himself to be just another thug.
Examination of tonsils and appendixes suggests infection rate for vCJD may only be 120 cases per million population.
In the United States the number of animals slaughtered for meat is increasing almost three times faster than the population.
Nutrition professors describe PETA's claims as malicious scaremongering.
Commission argues that proposed law is too vague.
Even after it had sold its interest in Huntingdon Life Sciences, Stephens Inc. pushed for new laws to crack down on animal rights extremists.
Kevin Jonas and SHAC take a big step closer to criminal charges.
Study finds low meat eating teens not healthier than their omnivorous teens, and the vegetarians and near-vegetarians were more depressed, but as in other studies there were just too few low meat eaters to make the results anything but speculation.
Farm USA announces it will observe World Farm Animals Day again.
The last thing we need is for pro-fox hunting groups to start emulating the Animal Liberation Front.
Is burning down buildings really terrorism? A UPI environmental reporter doesn't think so.
The saga over fox hunting with hounds in Great Britain continues unabated.
In which Davis describes how she bonded with her pet chicken, Viva (seriously).
But lawsuit is more about getting headlines and news coverage than a serious attempt to overturn EPA's testing program.
Ingrid Newkirk tells Crossfire that moderate eat meating won't kill you.
On Sept. 12 PETA released a press release urging activists to call NYC mayor Rudolph Giuliani's office to ensure that rescuing animals in and around the World Trade Center rubble was a high priority.
Jeffery Scheu was tracking a bison with the Buffalo Field Campaign when he was attacked by a grizzly bear.
PETA tackles the truly important animal-related issues: should a race between costumed sausages feature a soy sausage?
Case stems from the release of a wolf from a trap by a biologist conducting research paid for by Friends of Animals.
Government denies game farms the right to hold canned hunts, while it sells hunting licenses for elk at fenced-in government lands.
Group threatens to "take up the gun" against groups and government agencies researching things like the effects of acid rain on forests.
After a 30-day trading period passes, U.S. market makers jump onboard to trade HLS stock. Company now just needs to meet financial requirements for full listing on NASDAQ.
Addition shows HSUS is still an extremist animal rights group, even if it tries to play an animal welfare group for TV.
Karen Davis says she lives with chickens, and knows that induced molting is wrong.
As long as you donate enough money to PETA, selling meat isn't all that bad.
VegSource.Com removes a claim that a vegan diet could make people "heart attack proof."
Universities and businesses are naive if they think their silence will make animal rights activists go away.
Kjonaas is not bothered at all by SHAC-related violence, but on the other hand uses an alias to protect his family from harassment (how's that for hypocrisy?)
Royal Society report criticizes government hesitation, recommends combination of slaughtering animals and vaccination in case of a future outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
Researchers use gene therapy to treat a congestive heart failure-like ailment in hamsters. Pigs and then humans are next.
Advising Standards Authority says vegetarian group failed to prove its claims that a vegetarian diet is healthier than a balanced non-vegetarian diet.
VegSource ditched Robert Cohen, but it's hardly stopped promoting quack health advice.
VegSource.Com continues its pattern of making outlandish claims for veganism.
Police found bomb making materials at accused animal rights activist's home. Are bombs vegan?
And despite what the media think, the U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled that ritual animal sacrifice is protected by the Constitution.
Francione and Hall accuse the animal rights movement of behaving like a cult and of selling out the animals.
PCRM says milk vending machines in schools would be a bad idea since milk causes everything from allergies to cancer.
Activists allegedly threated to burn down home of Marsh Insurance manager.
One of the last three states that still allows cockfighting might ban the practice in November's general election.
SHAC tries to disavow Roberty Moaby's actions, but he was just following SHAC's own script.
ALF spokesman David Barbarash claims activist gave mink "a fighting chance."
Activists showed up at fur business owner's house to tell her kids she's a "murderer."
Says Utah Animal Rights Coalition failed to show it was harmed by delay in issuing demonstration permit.
Actress says that being a vegan was just not exciting enough -- and too difficult to accessorize.
Bingham poses nude for a PETA ad while Mathews worries more about pigs being killed than about humans murdered by serial killers.
Activist who protested at Marsh Insurance employee's house are charged with stalking.
Because the head of a company that provides insurance to Huntingdon Life Sciences was going to appear at a golf tournament, ALF activists vandalized the course.
Premier Ralph Klein says no to canned hunts of elk and deer. Presumably he will be consistent and call for an end to animal agriculture in Albert as well.
Judge rejects hunters' legal arguments; foxhunting proponents plan to appeal.
The Fund for Animals issues press release naming states with worst canned hunts, only to issue a retraction of two of those states just a short while later.
Appellate court rules that lower court misapplied a Utah state law, and PETA can seek to recover monetary damages from a protest that police shut down.
Thirty-two year old parrot swiped from a pet store by animal rights activists; $7,000 reward offered for the bird's safe return.
HLS manager sees animal rights campaign waning, but as it does it is likely to become more violent.
McDonald's settled lawsuits over its french fries, but now lawyers and groups cannot agree on where money should go.
PETA claims that ants are sentient beings and have rights.
An American Egg Board publication trashes its credibility by intentionally running a parody from The Onion as if it were true.
Moby claims he avoids products tested on animals, but he didn't exactly refuse a tetanus shot and antibiotics earlier this year when he was bit by a stray cat.
The Hepatitis B vaccine appears to have led to dramatic decreases in liver cancer.
Senate follows House in showing overwhelming support for hunting at Craters of the Moon National Monument.
Noah Wyle says people shouldn't donate money to charities that fund animal research. So why is he a celebrity spokesperson for a Pfizer/YWCA-sponsored program on post-traumatic stress disorder?
VegSource.Com publishers try to coin a new term to keep "I'm more vegan than you" folks under control.
Thanks to a mice model of the bacteria, a vaccine for staph infection is just a few years from being available.
More than 1,000 mink released in the early morning hours of July 22, with animal rights activists being the likely culprits.
A PETA staff member puts up $1,000 in bail for Rachelle Thorne.
Of course Cynthia Walker should be prosecuted for lying to police, and despite what some pet columnist's think, human children really are more valuable than animals.
Kennedy compared pork industry to Osama bin Laden, but gets spanked by a judge for filing a frivolous lawsuit against Smithfield Foods.
PETA says environmentalists want to kill more than 1 million animals for chemical toxicity tests, but one group says PETA's claims are ridiculous.
PETA sends a protester to try dance on the grave of animal trainer to mark the one year anniversary of his death.
Alex Hershaft had a problem -- the discussion board set up on VegSource.Com to serve as a place for. . .
The wacky hypocritical world that is VegSource.Com.
Authorites keep Volkert van der Graaf in isolation and 24-hour surveillance fearing he may try to kill himself.
A Time Magazine poll of 10,000 adults finds that very few people are either vegans or vegetarians.
Murphy demolishes animal rights arguments that animal rights violence is consistent with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s vision of non-violence.
Smoke grenades could have caused high rise fires if they had come into contact with any combustible materials.
Some researchers maintain that high consumption of soya is unhealthy, but so far most of the studies in this area are unconvincing.
Are human beings at risk of the Mad Cow-like Chronic Wasting Disease that is spreading among deer and elk in the United States?
Alex Hershaft had to defend AR2002 from charges of sexism and misogyny thanks to some comments by Howard Lyman.
Animal rights terrorism was directed at Marsh Insurance company.
One person had to be taken to the hospital after activist allegedly sprayed a chemical on his face.
A movement with nothing compelling to say has to resort to shock tactics.
SHAC tries to spin this as an incredible victory, promising again that HLS is on the verge of collapsing. Is that desperation I smell?
Francione claims Peter Singer and PETA have ruined the animal rights movement because they are sleeping with the enemy.
AR 2002 received little media coverage, but AMP has an extensive report on the conference.
If activists do not want to be compared to violent terrorists, maybe they should think about not advocating violent terrorism.
British agency misunderstood government's guidelines when ordering the withdrawal of the vaccine two years ago.
Activists apparently stole documents from a Roche facility.
Bardot wants a Declaration of Animal Rights modeled on the famous 1789 Declaration of Human Rights.
PETA seems to finally realize that its support of animal rights violence might backfire.
Activists said Huntingdon Life Sciences would be shut down by now, but the company keeps reporting increases in revenues and contracts.
Cohen's NotMilk Newsletter certainly won't win a Pulitzer Prize for accuracy. Neither will VegSource.Com.
In Peter Singer's world, it is okay to kill infants and have sex with animals, but the Christian ideal of the sanctity of human life is still an illogical obstacle in the way of animal liberation.
While it was criticizing PETA over the Burger King Veggie Burger, Friends of Animals was profiting off a cookbook that included sumptuous shrimp recipes.
After 14 years, Norway is on the verge of defying a CITES ban on international trade in minke whale meat and blubber.
An animal rights activists allegedly hits a USDA truck on purpose, injuring the agent driving the vehicle.
VegSource.Com practices a strange version of integrity.
Neal Barnard and PCRM seem to have no problem taking credit for driving Michael Podell out of Ohio State University.
Supporters of the 1989 ban say that any lifting of the ban will result in a return to widespread elephant poaching.
ALF activists throw gallons of red paint on home to protest death of animals -- but what about the animals killed to make the paint?
Ohio State University was unwilling to defend its own $1.68 million research grant against animal rights activists. The University should consider growing a spine as its next medical research project.
But strong opposition from France and Great Britain could derail the proposal.
Activist who sent e-mail threats to U.S.-based investment firms also had thousands of child porn images on several computers in his home.
Do children with soy-heavy diets risk having a compromised immune system? Maybe, but a lot more research is required to settle the matter.
A wave of Hindu nationalism is driving India's government to crack down on animal enterprises.
Tony Blair and the Labor Party have done a lot of talking recently about curtailing animal rights extremism, but are they prepared to actually do anything about it?
Award is widely viewed by animal rights activists and their opponents as a message that the Labour Party is serious about its committment to stop animal rights extremism.
Animal experiments suggest that cholera is a quick change artist once it enters the gut.
The way is now cleared for the Makah to kill up to four gray whales this summer.
The Last Chance for Animals president was asked about physical violence against opponents of the animal rights movement and replied, "If it happens and it works, then that's great."
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Proposed law would ban the import of new cosmetics tested on animals outside of the European Union.
Researcher harassed by animal rights activists over his AIDS research in cats publishes paper on how HIV-like disease infects feline brain cells.
McDonald's will donate $10 million to Hindu, vegetarian and other groups.
ACLU takes up case of PETA activists who were arrested at a circus protest in May 2001.
Some Bulgarians question priorities of European animal activists who set up a bear park in that country.
Heart tissue and kidney organs grown from cloned stem cells are successfully transplanted into cows.
Mice and chimpanzees might have genomes very similar to human beings, but it is the expression and regulation of those genes that is the likely key to differences between species.
Drugs for agents like smallpox, anthrax, and nerve gas cannot be safely or ethically tested in human beings, and so the FDA will approve these based solely on animal tests.
Animal rights group claims circus broke the law by trying to plant volunteers and employees at PETA. Gee, I wonder where they could have got the idea to do that?
Great Britain's Cinema Advertising Association bans PETA ad that depicted a woman being beaten to death.
Blake founded Seriously Ill for Medical Research which will continue to advocate for animal research.
Robert Cohen repeats the claim that milk causes diabetes. That's not true, but apparently not drinking milk does cause Cohen to selectively cite medical research.
The farmer at the center of Great Britain's foot and mouth disease outbreak could spent up to 6 months in jail for failing to report the disease sooner.
Eggs may not be the perfect food, but a new study suggests enriched egg yolks dramatically increase iron and DHA levels in infants.
ALF takes credit for setting a truck belonging to Sims Poultry on fire.
Last summer, Gary Yourofsky said he would "unequivocally support" murder to further the goals of the animal rights movement. Of course that makes him perfect PETA material, so Ingrid Newkirk hired Yourofsky on as a lecturer.
Animal rights activists claim meating eating causes hunger in the developing world, so meat eaters just have to be responsible for Malawi's famine.
Existing mice models may be inappropriate for some forms of cancer, but the implications of this are not what animal rights activists would like to pretend.
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection says its conducted a secret 10-month investigation of a Cambridge University laboratory. So then why did it release just a heavily edited 21-minute video?
The primate activist says animal laboratories are "faith-based institutions that seek to shield their own behavior from public scrutiny."
A man who received a short sentence for torturing and killing a cat may yet spend more time in jail.
National Insitutes of Health announces six species -- including the chimpanzee and the chicken -- which will be the subjects of federally funded research to sequence their genomes.
An animal rights activist says the featherless chicken is an example of "sick science."
Iceland threatens to resume whaling with or without the International Whaling Commission, after being turned down yet again for voting membership in the organization.
World Society for the Protection of Animals says Spain needs a law to prevent the hanging of thousands of greyhounds.
Priscilla Feral accuses People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals of deceiving vegetarians and vegans about the true nature of Burger King's Veggie Burger.
Brian Cass says UK is coming around, but there is still more that could be done to counter animal rights extremism.
Jerry and Pamelyn Vlasak claim police assaulted them during protest -- of course they have claimed to be assaulted by police at almost every protest they get arrested at. Go figure.
Procedure is first step on road to growing lung tissue for transplantation into human beings.
In a preview of a speech he is scheduled to give later this week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair argues that something must be done about growing anti-science views in the UK.
A new study should put to rest the false claim that the oral polio vaccine created the AIDS crisis.
German's lower house of parliament votes to amend the constitution to recognize animal rights.
PETA lies about its role in the NCAA's abandonment of leather basketballs for its tournaments.
Huntingdon Life Sciences foes are openly organizing a denial of service attack against the company on a web site hosted by UrbanWeb.Net.
The brave animal rights activist show up to scream at an elderly couple who have no connection with Huntingdon Life Sciences.
API says the treatment of frogs during the 74-year old Caleveras County Frog Jumping Jubilee is "cruel and inhumane."
British police arrest four animal rights extremist suspects, and are looking to arrest three more.
New law will make it easier for law enforcement officials in Kansas to prosecute people engaged in cockfighting.
Biotech company identifies strains of miniature swine that would not risk cross-species infection of PERV.
Steven Wise is back with a new group and $1 million in financing thanks to the founder of RealNetworks.
Van der Graaf apparently planned to assassinate the man he believed was behind Pim Fortuyn's environmental and animal policies.
Swedish firm commits hundreds of millions of dollars to new research facilities in the United States.
The International Fund for Welfare urges British footballers to abstain from whale meat while playing at the 2002 World Cup in Japan.
Accused assassin Volkert van der Graaf is also now a suspect in a 1996 murder as well as a couple animal rights-related arsons in the Netherlands.
Ingrid Newkirk says PETA does not target children, so why was it showing a video of a pig slaughter outside of Portsmouth Middle School?
Two people accused and acquitted of animal cruelty based on videotapes from an undercover PETA operative sue the animal rights organization seeking $1.5 million apiece.
Speculation about the suspect's ongoing feud with a pig farmer takes center stage as a possible motive.
Ron Arnold claims that PETA failed to file federally required disclosure statements on who it gave grants and allocations to in 1997 and 1998.
Watching Neal Barnard accuse others of factual inaccuracies is a bit like reading China's denunciation of the U.S. human rights record.
Ingrid Newkirk claims it does not target children, so I guess those are some very mature elementary students.
Studying the similarities and differences between the two genomes will allow scientists to better understand what makes us tick.
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty relies on tactics that exist in a gray area of the First Amendment, but the Supreme Court should help lift the fog when it finally weighs in on the limits of RICO lawsuits.
An animal rights activist is the prime suspect in the murder of Dutch politician Pim Fortyun.
A judge bars the Makah Indians from hunting whales until a hearing in 10 days on a lawsuit brought by the Fund for Animals and other anti-whaling groups.
An arson at a poultry plant in Indiana could be the work of the Animal Liberation Front.
If a product that contains cheese is vegetarian, why not a product containing a beef flavoring?
Wayne Pacelle finally find somebody he can relate to on an intellectual level.
Novartis says the inability of Great Britain to control animal rights terrorists makes expanding in that country a difficult proposition.
IDA features a page on its website giving the animal rights movement credit for the National Institutes of Health's 1999 banning of mouse production of monoclonal antibodies. The only problem is the NIH never banned mouse production of the antibodies.
Researchers are currently testing these "magic bullet" drugs in animals, with human trials likely only a few years away.
Korea dog meat representative denies Associated Press report that his association will offer free samples of dog meat, but does promise an uplifiting dog meat juice tonic for football fans.
Animal welfare advocates and researchers concerned about the decline of some shark populations want a global ban on the grotesque practice of shark finning.
A House-Senate conference committee rejects the Puppy Protection Act.
But the problem is not the dogs, but rather some dog owners in Romania.
If the goal is to reduce minimize the number of animals killed for food, then clearly beef is far preferable to chicken and turkey.
Follows on European researchers who last year cloned sheep from cells from dead animals.
Biomedical company Infigen claims to have a process that makes implantation of clone embryos more likely to succeed.
Williams once joined PETA campaigns against animal research, but now appears to endorse animal research into multiple sclerosis.
This illustrates why researchers conduct experiments with animals -- to better understand the risks of pioneering treatments and develop ways to minimize those risks when it is time to start treating humans.
One man gets off with time served, the other with only a 90 day jail term to be served on the weekends.
The Animal Liberation Front sabotages several bottles of Pantene Pro V. My what brave activists they are.
PETA pulls a videotape of alleged animal welfare violations out of its hat, but seems unlikely to stop efforts to exempt birds and rodents from the Animal Welfare Act.
Two of three UK activists sentenced to 6 months for their campaign of harassment are released early.
China's unwillingness to take seriously its obligation to help control avian influenza has rendered Hong Kong's eradication efforts an exercise in futility.
Are the lives of mice more important than the lives of people suffering from cystic fibrosis?
The Commission notes that primate research is irreplaceable in many important areas of biomedical investigation.
PETA and other groups ask the Supreme Court to reconsider the constitutionality of RICO provisions that have put anti-abortion groups on the losing end of lawsuits.
The vaccine has already been proven to work with mice, and if the monkey tests are successful, human clinical trials could begin before the end of 2002.
Lord Philip Hunt reaffirms that the UK government is solidly behind animal research.
Alex Hershaft wants Burger King's veggie burger to succeed, but it is likely going to be a huge failure.
One of Stepanian's 15 arrests finally results in some significant jail time.
Unfortunately, the group's research does not seem to have been peer reviewed yet.
Clinton asks the FBI to get involved in the investigation.
Since 1996, six states have added amended their constitutions to protect hunting from animal rights activists, and hunters in at least 13 other states are taking up the issue.
Researchers show that adult stem cells can be use to create other cells and tissues.
The Center for Consumer Freedom found at least 7 different stories that PETA staffers offered to varying news agencies to explain why they donated $1,500 to the Earth Liberation Front.
The Audubon Society and the Humane Society of the United States are on opposite sides of a lawsuit over trapping in California.
Alfred Kuba claims March of Animals does not tell donors that it conducts animal research.
Bacterial enzyme clears a pathway through scar tissue to allow nerve cells to grow.
Police are investigating 14 separate cases of somebody tampering cows and milk with antibiotics.
Craig Marshall's story alternates between unintentionally hilarious and absolutely chilling.
Blames oppressive government rather than his own stupidity for his predicament.
Just once I would like to see Barnard and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine engage in an honest debate instead of tilting at windmills and inventing straw men.
Researchers use genetically modified mice to test a hypothesis about why lung tissue fails to repair itself in some people with long-term lung disease.
Trull points out the importance of animal research in advancing human medical knowledge (and I ponder what exactly rabbits are if they are not animals).
The UK-based animal testing firm seeks an initial public offering on a U.S. stock exchange.
Why did Lisa Lange lie about the purpose of PETA's $1,500 donation to the Earth Liberation Front?
Animal alternatives in medical research can do a lot of amazing things, but they cannot yet replace animal research.
Nonprofits that openly advocate violence and donate to other groups that openly advocate violence should not receive tax exempt status.
Hunting bears in New Jersey has long been illegal to help the population recover, but is even anti-hunt legislators begin to wonder if it might not be time for a limited hunt.
Researchers treat another child suffering from 'bubble boy' disease -- thanks to animal research.
Goodwin criticizes a researcher who thinks a vegan diet would produce more deaths than a pasture/ruminant diet. Next time, Goodwin might want to think a bit more carefully before opening his mouth.
Cloned rabbits will likely play a prominent role in studying human diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
Court rejects constitutional challenges to a law allowing municipalities to hire deer hunters to cull herds.
Lawyer argues that ethical vegan tortured and killed cat to highlight the horrors of cruelty to animals.
Two Portland animal activists settle a lawsuit charging them with abducting a boxer, and agree to testify against a third woman who was allegedly responsible for having the stolen dog euthanized.
Long life -- it's about moderation, not vegetarianism.
Patricia Wolff thinks it is, but anybody who has benefitted from modern anesthesiology might beg to differ.
Cow embyros were successfully cloned and then genetically modified to express more protein in their milk before being implanted into a cow.
Barnes seems to be in a contest to see how many inaccuracies she can fit in a single e-mail.
PETA wants a high school to find a "more humane" fund raiser to spare a bovine from the horrors of cow bingo.
Judge says guard's actions were "gratuitously cruel."
Luers set fire to several vehicles and tried to ignite a gasoline tanker, but his supporters whine that his 22-year sentence is unfair.
Dr. Elias Zerhouni's research with dogs will have enormous long-term impact on the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.
The pufferfish turns out to contain about 90 percent of the genes that human beings have, which makes it great for research.
Breast cancer researchers warn that Europe's increasingly hostile attitude toward biomedical research will cost lives.
Animal rights activist sentenced for six bomb hoaxes directed at various firms.
The PETA president appeared on Crossfire to lie about the group's activities.
SHAC goes out on a limb by harassing janitors out of a job.
For Davis, a Jewish family enjoying a chicken dinner raises the same sort of ethical questions as did the Holocaust?
The animal rights position is apparently so weak, that activists feel the need to distort and outright lie about the methods and aims of medical research involving animals.
A medical researcher uses a mouse model to test hypothesis about why the tuberculosis vaccine has such a high failure rate.
In answering 54 question from a House Subcommittee, Rosebraugh reveals just how sick and twisted animal rights terrorism is.
The SHARK activist drops a lawsuit charging that a Utah politician defamed him by labelling SHARK a "terrorist group."
Yourofsky announces he is temporarily abandoning animal rights activism to get a job.
Among other things, 1997 Nobel Prize winner Stanley Prusiner is working on a mouse model for prion disease to test possible treatments.
The Hilton was not pleased over some of the behaviors of participants at last year's AR2001 conference.
Switzerland's government bows to animal rights pressure and abandons efforts to legalize ritual animal slaughter.
An Oregon State University says no -- a diet emphasizing beef, dairy and some plants might cause hundreds of millions fewer animal deaths.
Researchers make a breakthrough in understanding what causes river blindness that could lead to more effective treatment of the tropical disease.
UPC opposes sending chickens to Afghanistan, but at the same time urges people to donate to a charity that funds animal research.
PETA says cow bingo promotes cruelty to animals, but it has no problems showing an ad featuring a woman being beaten with a baseball bat.
Proposed settlement would involve as much as $10 million in donations to vegetarian groups.
Bill passes overwhelmingly even though Scotland does not have a single fur farm.
A revelation that PETA donated money to the Earth Liberation Front is causing major problems for the animal rights group.
The man was funny, but also an animal rights crank.
Once upon a time Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer said they would rather go naked than wear fur. How times change.
Researchers who managed to grow organs in the lab and then transplant them into dogs now seek approval to try the technique in human beings.
Apparently it would be better for deer to die agonizing deaths from car accidents than be killed humanely in 30 to 90 seconds.
The woman who said that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks likely reduced suffering in the world criticizes an ad campaign featuring a duck for being "degrading."
A company has developed a test for sunscreen that involves taking skin from transgenic mice and exposing it to sunlight. The Boston Globe claims this is an alternative to animal testing. Are mice now vegetables?
Preliminary tests of HIV vaccines developed in monkeys indicate they might help human beings control the virus.
Numbers of foxes in reserve quadrupled over five years while ground-nesting birds were almost wiped out.
Research funded by Great Britain's Arthritis Research Campaign suggests it just might.
Researchers successfully move from theory to animal studies to human clinical trials with a vaccination for staph infection.
Researchers at Texas A and M managed to clone a cat, which Humane Society of the United States' Wayne Pacelle characteristically described as "unfortunate news."
Owner challenges People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to prove its charges of abuse.
PETA says it was the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife's fault that Dan Shannon totaled one of PETA's cars.
PETA's Amy Rhodes insists on digging herself in deeper over cow being at Florida Southern College.
The Center's review of PETA's tax returns from 1995-2000 reveals a pattern of donations to animal rights and environmentalist extremists.
Efforts to overturn the inclusion of rodents and birds under the Animal Welfare Act are one step closer.
Legal challenges to new law are expected on a number of fronts, while some opponents suspect the law is so filled with exemptions and vague language that it is unenforceable.
The full text of Richard Berman's written testimony before the U.S. House subcommittee investigation ecoterrorism.
The complete text of Jarboe's opening statement to a Congressional subcommittee investigating ecoterrorism.
At a U.S. House subcommittee hearing on ecoterrorism, an FBI expert testifies that ALF/ELF are the most active terrorist groups in the United States.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals demands a halt to the cruelty of watching a cow wander around a field.
Mark Sands burned homes in Arizona, and will receive a new home himself for the next several years courtesy of a federal district judge.
Did a petition signature company trick people into signing an anti-gay marriage petition by telling them they were signing a petition to save horses from slaughterhouses?
Originally it looked like the U.S. House might have trouble convincing the spokesman for animal rights terrorists to testify. Now it looks like their problem may be forcing him to get to the point.
Protesters broke windows, threw paint and chicken bones at high rise apartment they believed to be the home of an executive at an investment firm that had an interested in Huntingdon Life Sciences.
The NotMilk Man bables on about conspiracies, soldiers and wars.
A Utah legislature repeatedly refers to Steve Hindi's group as a terrorist organization. Somebody tell State Rep. Paul Ray, that he should leave distorting the truth to the animal rights activists.
An animal rights terrorist sentenced to a leninent jail term in January had ties to the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade as well as a previous animal rights arrest.
Bill would allow judges to impose heavy civil finds above and beyond any criminal penalties.
The VegSource.Com proprietor is right -- meat is a glorious luxury.
Two activists who planned to blow up dairy trucks receive prison sentences of 24 and 14 months respectively.
Bill would allow a judge to deny FOIA requests if he or she finds the intent of the requests is to intimidate or harass.
The British government and biotech industry spokesmen promise not to let another company be hounded out of the country like HLS was.
Washington state banned fur traps in 2000, and now finds it illegal to trap moles.
Sally Staples describes the campaign of harassment directed at her by animal rights activist, even though she has no connection at all with the company from which they want her to dissociate.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and animal rights activists will attack you for being cruel.
A lawyer who was closely associated with the animal rights movement in Great Britain loses his right to practice law in that country.
Ray Greek left a few things out in his attack on HIV animal research.
Michael Conn's harrowing statement of the harassment and abuse he faced from animal rights activists.
After Singer criticized her book, Animal Equality: Language and Liberation, Joan Dunayer returns the favor and argues that the people murdered on 9/11 led morally inferior lives compared to chickens.
Many of them seemed to care more about animals than they did the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Testing firm Covance thinks that after SHAC is finished with Huntingdon Life Sciences, the animal rights attack on animal testing firms will just fade away. They should stop kidding themselves.
Center for Consumer Freedom has an excellent series of ads ripping on People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says the dairy industry is spreading misinformation, but a Harvard professor says it is PCRM that is distorting his research.
Guest op-ed argues that Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front are mainstream progressive causes.
Campaign features a 16-year-old girl whose life is dependent on drugs developed with animal tests.
Karen Davis fears a chicken used in an ad for Carl Jr's might have felt exploited.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., argues that the correct answer is the pig farms.
Animal rights group is angry over appearance of chimpanzees on the Today show.
Discovery provides confirming evidence that HIV likely originated through contact between humans and non-human primates in West Africa.
Blair says British government will tighten law to deal with violent anti-HLS activists.
An anti-hunting group in the UK sends veiled threats to hunts supporters.
Stephens notified SHAC it intends to drop its RICO lawsuit that was filed last April, but SHAC insists it wants the lawsuit to proceed.
Activists also urge people to "take direct action and any action necessary to stop the destruction of animals."
Should begin meat exports again after international commission certifies the UK as being free of foot-and-mouth disease.
Conference will be dedicated to exposing terrorism directed at animals.
First National Bank files papers asserting the Coulston Foundation has defaulted on its loans and asks judge to appoint a special master to sell off the company's property.
Meanwhile fishing consistently comes in the top four of favorite leisure activities that Americans say they enjoy participating in.
Deer populations have skyrocketed in the past few decades as have the costs associated with such large populations. Market hunting with quotas might be one solution.
Does eating meat cause an estimated 9,000 deaths from foodborne illnesses every year? In a word, no.
Europe seemed relieved that Pim Fortuyn's assassin was "just" an animal rights activist rather than a Muslim or an immigrant. They might not want to relax so quickly.
Dolly, the cloned sheep, has arthritis, so obviously all animal cloning research should be banned.
A study of bone density increases from taking calcium supplements indicates their benefits wear off after girls stop taking them.
But research has yet to be accepted by a peer reviewed journal, so its significance is questionable.
Researchers hope that eventually this could pave the way for a more effective treatment of age-related macular degeneration which is the leading cause of vision problems in people over 50 in the developed world.
A British newspaper reports its undercover reporter was told that he could donate to an American charity, and the money would find its way back to the UK SHAC -- a serious violation of U.S. law.
Company says it accomplished its goals with the animal testing firm, and has sold its stake in the company to an unidentified foreign investor.
Researchers successfully treat sickle cell anemia in mice. Next step is to try procedure on primates.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claims 'Wack-A-Mole' is a "dangerous toy."
A new study is being touted as evidence that eating meat and/or milk contributes to cancer, but in reality the study reaffirms USDA dietary guidelines.
Researchers graft diseased human lung tissue into mice and then successfully test a genetic therapy that improves lung function enough to keep the disease under control.
Deadline announced after details for compensating fur farmers are worked out.
Researchers knock out a gene from pigs that would cause the human immune system to attack transplanted organs.
Animal activists want all dog meat banned, but their efforts might result in the formal legalization of dog meat under South Korea's laws governing other animals used for food.
Genetically engineered animals could dramatically lower the cost of vaccine production.
United Poultry Concerns activists slams Peter Singer for claiming that the suffering of people murdered in 9/11 terrorists attack was greater than the suffering of chickens.
The animal testing firm also reports a third quarter profit of 635,000 pounds.