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Former Israeli dog trainer believes pigs might be easier to train than dogs to detect explosives.
New group issues press release complaining of "an admixture of smoke, mirrors, coattail riding -- and stasis" among animal nonprofits.
Animal rights group angered after Stewart boils live lobster on her television show.
Study of teeth of ancient hominids suggests ancestors of Homo sapiens began eating meat at least 2.5 million years ago.
A year after Oklahoma voters approved a ban on cockfighting, the law remains unenforced and will likely be tied up in court for years to come.
Norm Phelps distorts the Bible in asking a Christian group to stop sponsoring hunting trips for disabled and terminally ill children.
PETA claims protesters damaged its Holocaust On Your Plate display, but North Dakota official says surveillance tapes tell a different story.
The Fund says hunting is doomed, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.
Supervisor who introduced resolution says he may introduce ordinance banning cat declawing in San Francisco if the public reacts positively to the condemnation resolution.
File No. 031591 RESOLUTION NO. 645-03 [Opposing the Declawing of Cats] Resolution urging pet guardians. . .
Farm USA notes that number of animals killed for food in the United States will likely top 10 billion for the first time in 2003.
Poll finds overwhelming support for genetic modification of plants, but significant opposition to genetic modification of animals, even for medical research purposes.
U.S. District judge orders halt to pheasant shooting until completion of environmental impact statement.
THE FUND FOR ANIMALS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. FRAN MAINELLA, Director National Park Service, et al.,. . .
PETA's PR campaigns certainly raise the profile of the group, but is that necessarily a good thing for the animal rights movement?
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage done to lab that did research on cigarette smoke and other toxins.
Judge finds that Utah hate crimes law did not impinge on the First Amendment right of animal rights activist.
More thorough sequencing of dog genome is also underway.
Fur industry has climbed back to position it was at before 1980s collapse.
Bryan Pease and other activists take Los Angeles Times reporter along as they steal four ducks at a shed owned by a foie gras firm.
STATE OF HAWAII, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. KENNETH LE VASSEUR, Defendant-Appellant, and STEVEN CHARLES. . .
Kay Corso, Plaintiff, v. Crawford Dog and Cat Hospital, Inc., Defendant [NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL] Civil. . .
CITIZENS TO END ANIMAL SUFFERING AND EXPLOITATION, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. THE NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM,. . .
CARL BUECKNER, Appellant v. ANTHONY HAMEL AND KATHY COLLINS, Appellees No. 01-94-00010-CV COURT OF APPEALS. . .
Mary Morgan v. Zane Kroupa No. 95-594 SUPREME COURT OF VERMONT 167 Vt. 99; 702 A.2d 630; 1997 Vt. LEXIS. . .
Julie L. Rabideau, Plaintiff-Appellant-Petitioner, v. City of Racine, Defendant-Respondent. No. 99-3263. . .
Breakthrough will allow creation of gene knockout rats much as with mice to better study and understand human ailments such as diabetes.
Researchers use baboons to evalue different treatment options for preventing lung collapse in premature infants.
Plaintiffs argue that 1998 supermajority ballot initiative to protect hunting chills free speech of other Utah citizens and is therefore unconstitutional.
S.J.R. 10 Enrolled RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING WILDLIFE NUMBERS 1998 GENERAL SESSION STATE. . .
Police arrest man on suspicion of environmental terrorism and then release him after failing to present evidence.
Designer Julien Macdonald tells a British newspaper exactly how he feels about animal rights activists.
Cambodian mayor says dog meat is good when served with palm juice wine.
Davis says slaughterhouses cause pretty much any social problem you can think of.
The text of the INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE REGULATION OF WHALING, 1946 signed at Washington, 2. . .
PETA asks Governor to cancel prison rodeo, but governor's spokesman dismisses request as "silly."
Latest study to find that brain tissue can be grown from embronic stem cells and implanted in animals to alleviate suffering of Parkinson's-like disorder.
Group proposes legislation it believes would do a better job of tackling animal rights and environmental terrorism.
American Legislative Exchange Council's proposed anti-animal rights/environmental terrorism legislation.
Genetically modified zebrafish produces Hepatitis B vaccine in its muscles.
Americans consumed an average of 15.6 pounds of seafood per capita in 2002.
Police come under criticism for not preventing attack despite plenty of advance knowledge of activist gathering and threats of just such raids.
Someone tries to burn down Roy Innes home a day after a story about his alleged violation of Scotland's fox hunt ban appears in a local newspaper.
University of Pittsburgh researcher receives five-year, $6 million grant to continue efforts to clone monkeys.
PETA says it must be cruel even if there's no evidence of any cruelty.
Cavel International moves forwad with plan to rebuild slaughterhouse that burned down in 2002.
Federal judge dismisses major part of lawsuit, but allows remaining claims against EPA to go to trial.
Judge points out the obvious -- Erin Abott was "whollly responsible" for the injuries she sustained while attempting to interfere with the Makah whale hunt in 2000.
Activists goes after company that sells cleaning supplies to Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Kislak eplaces AVRA co-founder and outgoing president Nedim Buyukmihci.
Van registered to Bjorn Einertsen, 26, seen leaving scene of Chiron bombing.
But without increase in maximum 1 year jail sentence, new law is unlikely to increase prosecutions of cockfighters.
Lindsay endorses all sorts of animal rights terrorist tactics.
Priscilla Feral says such attacks have no place in the animal rights movement.
Young woman receives 9 months probation for tossing tea and tea bags and vehicles passing by research facility.
Radio station hosts barbecue underneath PETA billboard.
BILL NUMBER: SB 732 CHAPTERED BILL TEXT CHAPTER 256 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 2, 2003. . .
PETA activist says that animal rights movement is "largely comprised" of Jews.
Files complaint that barring disabled from using crossbows during archery seasons violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Greek joins the tobacco industry in obfuscating the role of animal research in establishing a link between smoking and lung cancer.
Taiwan religious tradition hold that the larger the pig sacrificed, the more luck will be received from the spirits.
Survey of attendees at AR 2003 session finds significant support for threats, physical violence and even assassination.
The Guardian claims France wants ban on cosmetics animal tests overturned.
Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health says 28 schools support its Meatless Monday program -- so why won't it name them?
Ray and Jean Greek are busy obfuscating animal research.
Judge finds no evidence that activists acted on information they received from former Eli Lilly driver.
Animal/enviro extremists' actively peddle hypocrisy.
PETA lets San Diego Zoo goers in on the general quality of their arguments against animal use.
Activists celebrate violence and then wonder why the press pegs them as terrorists.
But WHO report fails to find any evidence that ban improves human health.
But one restaurant goer says fish are more appealing than PETA's model-of-the-week.
PETA chief takes exception to columnist panning annimal rights group's disgusting road show.
Chicken ritually slaughtered at end of play's three-week run.
Agranoff celebrates "heroism" of extremists who burned down $50 million San Diego apartment complex.
Activists criticize Pataki for, among other things, not realizing they support the killing of elk and deer.
RSPCA maintains that Mauritius facility doesn't meet basic animal welfare standards.
Included in lifting of restrictions is the civet cat, which is a known carrier of SARS.
Activist who arranged speech by Rodney Coronado the day of $50 million San Diego arson has his house raided by a Joint Terrorist Task Force investigating the fire.
And PETA still seems to think Americans don't know where their food comes from.
More than $1 million in damage -- not to mention hundreds of tons of pollution -- thanks to ELF terrorists.
Kucinich appeals to Iowa dairy farmers to support his run for president.
Navy has culled more than 60 carabao from munitions testing area since May 2003.
Charges against other two activists dropped after more than two-year wait.
Proposed regulations fail to satisfy either animal activists or farmers.
Most quickly recaptured, but not before rampaging through local farms in search of food.
Police stop activists from throwing themselves under buses.
When finished in 2005, lab will house more than half a million zebrafish for research purposes.
Companies targeted by SHAC win injunction that limits protests.
Animal Liberation Brigade claims explosion at group that was targeted by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.
Ironically, ban on ivory trade accelerates decline of the hippopotamus.
Sixty day hunting season will result in shooting of 120,000-150,000 mourning doves.
Procedure will alleviate hereditary disorder that caused repeated non-cancerous tumors to invade the woman's left atrium.
But there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical that the researchers actually accomplished this feat.
Hindi wants more activists/groups to outfit vehicles like SHARK's Tiger truck.
Standing water also damages adjoining historical 19th century adobe building.
Group complains that hermit crabs belong in oceans, not plastic boxes in people's homes.
But enforcement of ban is delayed until March 2005 to give producers time to find alternatives.
Iain Harris claims hunt opponents who call fox hunting with dogs "cruel" are guilty of libel/slander.
Hunting mourning doves is already legal in states that border Michigan.
Proposed bill to create dove hunting season in Michigan.
The government has shut down other charities accused of funneling money to terrorists -- why not PETA?
Chiron employees have endured months of SHAC-inspired harassment.
Judge buys activists claims of repentance.
Collage made out of thousands of butterfly wings outrages PETA.
Vegetarian pens op-ed discussing his "perverse joviality" at the deaths of 130+ people in Great Britain.
Activists might want to find out what Holocaust survivors think about PETA's campaign before opening their mouths.
Group charges that the Humane Society of the United States illegally funneled money through Hawaiian Humane Society to avoid state campaign finance disclosure rules.
Actor/politician wants animal rights group to remove 26-year-old quote about milk from its web site.
Sure Jews during the Holocaust had it rough, but that's nothing compared to what chickens have to endure.
Coronado says if he burns down a lab that's nonviolence; but if his opponents dare to quote him, that's intimidation and an attack on free speech.
Is trying to preserve a species the same thing as "ethnic cleansing"?
Fire guts building and destroys several vehicles.
Does any other misdemeanor warrant a specific $800,000 federal budget?
Iceland kills first of 38 minke whales for "scientific research" purposes.
Activists want to stop planned importation of 11 African elephants from Swaziland.
Bill would have made it illegal to slaughter animals which cannot stand and walk without assistance.
PETA says it doesn't encourage this sort of attack -- then, turns around and encourages this sort of attack.
Program highlights role that animal research plays in improving animal health.
New method could allow researchers to produce almost any antibody in mice.
Parties in India try to out-Hindu each other.
County restricts access to information after animal rights activists trespass on farm in neighboring county.
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD HOUSE PAGE H6609 July 14, 2003 AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION,. . .
Downed Animal Protection Act (Introduced in House) HR 1421 IH 107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1421. . .
Minnesota Department of Administration Advisory Opinion:03-025 This is an opinion of the Commissioner. . .
Student argues that the display is ineffective because people get too sentimental over all the dead Jews rather than weeping over the slaughtered animals.
Hint: vegetarians should not comment on powerful message of PETA's Holocaust display and then steal eggs from enslaved chickens just to satisfy their cravings.
House of Commons overwhelmingly approves ban and will apparently attempt to override the inevitable rejection by the House of Lords.
Activists make yet another stirring and logical argument against animal testing.
Dutch Justice Minister says investigation of 1996 murder is still open, but Volkert van der Graaf is not considered a suspect despite similarity of that killing and the assassination of Pim Fortuyn.
Japan's efforts to expanding research whaling blocked, while Japan and other pro-whaling nations stop effort to create new whale sanctuaries.
Rules group lacks standing and failed to demonstrate it would likely prevail on the merits of case as well.
Text of a proposed bill to ban canned hunts in New York.
Despite a possible sighting in August, ELF terrorist remains at large.
Wanted: information on non-vegetarian market share of vegetarian food sales.
Then why is there a specific term for vegetarians who eat fish?
Prescott fails to convice New York Governor with her ethical vs. unethical hunter schtick.
But HLS spokesman takes the threat in stride, noting that "we get all sorts of threats all the time."
ELF extremists pull off most expensive act of terrorism yet for their cause.
The European Union wants to increase animal testing of chemicals dramatically, while the UK proposes eliminating it altogether.
Veterinarian association argues that guardianship movement could limit ability to reduce suffering.
Maybe, but DNA analysis of whale populations is not refined enough to answer the question in regards to pre-human hunting of whales.
And too many police officials still do not understand exactly what "groups" like ALF and ELF really are.
Animal rights extremist caught in the act after a previously-hit fur farm upgrades its security system.
As fear of Mad Cow Disease recedes, so do the number of vegetarians.
Former manager proposes wild scheme he thinks activists could use to bring companies into line.
Melee involving several activists and Shriners doesn't result in any charges or arrests, however.
AR 2003 a low key event compared to last year, but still plenty of fireworks from the usual suspects.
In which Davis says that catching chickens is terrorism.
Bob Puddicombe acquitted of charges that he tried to thwart rat eradication efforts on environmentally sensitive island.
Convicted animal rights terrorist offers up his quasi-religious view of the sanctity of terrorism.
PETA spokesperson who admires serial killers tries to invoke the moral high road. Puhleeze.
Attorney argues that law is unconstitutionally vague, but the wording seems straightforward.
IC 14-22-37 Chapter 37. Harassment of Hunters, Trappers, and Fishermen IC 14-22-37-1 "Game animal". . .
Beaver population in Mass. has tripled since 1996 ban on body-gripping traps. Some legislators argue it is time to loosen up the ban.
A federal circuit court rules the EPA broke rules on creating new regulations when it issued moratorium on accepting data from human clinical trials of pesticides.
A federal circuit court rules the EPA broke rules on creating new regulations when it issued moratorium on accepting data from human clinical trials of pesticides.
Stuart Chaifetz has harsh words for animal rights activists who joined with hunters to oppose bill that would have added 7 animal welfare activists/environmentalists to NJ Fish and Game Council.
SENATE, No. 2603 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 210th LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED MAY 29, 2003 Sponsored by: Senator. . .
Activists get away with stealing two pigs due to official indifference.
As if animal rights extremism was not bad enough, now some fox hunt supporters want to get in on the action to protest the ban on fox hunting.
Gov. Gary Locke supported limited changes to voter-approved initiative banning body-gripping traps, but said this legislation went too far.
OSU plans to expand its existing facilities as well as build a new laboratory to study infectious diseases.
In Rodney's world, even rocks have rights.
Software, similar to systems commonly used by pharmaceutical companies in developed countries, will cut development time and the number of animal trials needed to evaluate a new drug compound.
Fur ban effort fails overwhelmingly, but poll finds a generation gap with a majority of people under 30 favoring the ban.
Three women arrested after chaining themselves to the entrance of a fur store.
National Geographic host grills former Earth Liberation Front spokesman.
CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5179 58th Legislature 2003 Regular Session Passed. . .
HSUS and other groups filed a lawsuit last Fall to stop the federal government from stocking pheasants at Cape Cod National Seashore for hunting purposes.
Billboard shows Col. Sanders holding a knife and bloody chicken.
But Marcus Schenkenberg has by trying to become a vegetarian -- after all he's only been affiliated with PETA since 2001. You can't expect that kind of life change overnight.
First ban of its kind anywhere in the United States takes effect in small city.
Judge says vegans seem to have gotten by for months without getting special vegan food, why change now?
Lawyer files appeal to oppose final disbursement ruling of $6 million McDonald's french fry settlement.
Study suggests that self-identified vegetarians are at higher risk for eating disorders than non-vegetarians.
Are endangered animals being killed for their fur in Afghanistan?
Another frivolous lawsuit from a frivolous animal rights activist.
Hoffman-LaRoche researchers find oral compound that increases insulin production while simultaneously reducing glucose levels in mice and rats.
Rats injected with differentiated human embryonic stem cells regained the ability to walk 9 weeks after treatment.
First time that non-human primates have been kept alive for such a long period of time using islet cells from another species.
PETA maintains that Iams doesn't adhere to its research animal policy and is deceiving consumers.
Researchers used technique that is twice as fast and requires less sophisticated equipment and procedures than those used in cloning Dolly the sheep.
Technique involves using a laser to take a small sample of an animal's tail rather than killing the whole animal for testing purposes.
Release prompts RSPCA and BUAV representatives to lie about efforts made by UK researchers to reduce the number of scientific procedures on animals.
Statistics on the numbers of scientific procedures performed on animals in the UK from 2000-2002.
Research could one day lead to a treatment for muscular dystrophy.
PCRM continues to try to reposition itself as a consumer group concerned with diet and nutrition -- but CCF keeps reminding the press that PCRM is an animal rights group.
Program aims to foster a win-win situation for both conservationists and hunters.
Opponents of bear baiting say it is unfair and teaches bear to seek out human-supplied sources of food.
Plaque decries "the persecution of the animal kingdom."
Florida, South Carolina, and Louisana already have restored large scale commercial hunting of the formerly-endangered species.
Prosecutor says Pim Fortuyn was killed because of his support for fur farms.
In pre-recorded telephone messages, Arthur complains that the university "mutilates" cats for its spinal research.
But Friends of Animals holds off on promised boycott to see if constitutional problems might drag the law down before it is applied.
Veiled threats of violence should not be tolerated regardless of who is making them.
Has PETA read its own web site lately?
The full text of a lawsuit filed by convicted animal rights criminals Jennifer Greenberg, Benjamin Perksy, and Joshua Schwartz claiming the New York City Corrections Department has a legal obligation to serve them vegan meals.
Animal rights criminals and PETA say arson and other crimes are okay in the name of animal rights, but serving a convicted criminal meat is beyond the pale.
Believed to be first vaccines on track to be approved using only results of animal tests for efficacy data.
After being subjected to a campaign of intimidation, Deloitte & Touche partner suggests UK could do more to stop groups like Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.
David Cantor doesn't get very far with his opposition to the animal agriculture program at the University of Arizona.
Bayer pulls the plug on trials of transgenic sheep, leaving PPL Therapeutics unable to support is 3,000+ flock of transgenic sheep.
Like Florida, California has very little pig or cattle production making it an ideal place to try to ban gestation crates and tethering.
BILL NUMBER: AB 732 AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 23, 2003 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 22,. . .
But at least Responsible Policies for Animals concedes the horrible death toll of animals that vegetarian and vegan diets entail.
Newkirk says that PETA will always come to the defense of ALF.
Changes will give police greater latitude in taking action against animal rights protests that cross the line.
In which Newkirk says that having children is nothing more than "human vanity."
Bill would prevent private landowners from banning fishing along navigable waters that run through their land.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________. . .
Too bad convincing people to stop eating meat doesn't take a single publicity stunt.
Activist and companion allegedly spread food pellets containing antidote to rat poison.
As Passed by the Senate 125th General Assembly Regular Session 2003-2004 Sub. S. B. No. 67 Senators. . .
Already on sale in Taiwan, glowing fish are coming soon to an aquarium near you.
Bill would make many such crimes felonies and require restitution of up to twice the value of destroyed equipment.
Seven activists carry signs and dress up as chicken to protest KFC suppliers' treatment of chickens.
2002 Farm Bill required meat producers to label their products with information about where the meat orginated from.
Woman charged with felony theft after refusing to turn over animal to police.
A twist on Shakespeare lands a school district trustee in hotwater.
A twist on Shakespeare lands a school district trustee in hotwater.
Order extends ban on anti-HLS activists protesting within 50 yards of HLS employees homes.
State Supreme Court asks both sides to address how Wisconsin's recently approved amendment guaranteeing a right to hunt affects the legality of the mourning dove hunt.
Rule motivated by accusations that cat and dog fur is being sold as fox or rabbit fur in the UK.
Supreme Court of the State of Washington Opinion Information Sheet Docket Number: 72186-6 Title of Case:. . .
But Citizens for Responsible Wildlife Management is still pursuing another challenge to this and other initiatives related to wildlife management.
L.A. Zoo wants to focus on Asian elephants, whereas Knoxville Zoo already focused on Asian elephants.
Barbara Yaffe is a vegetarian who also refuses to eat plants that reproduce sexually.
But Jews and Muslims complain that their slaughter techniques are no more cruel than other widely accepted slaughter methods.
Besides if PETA is consistent, thinks mosquitoes are sentient beings, and sentient beings have rights, don't they?
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty isn't fooling anyone about the point of its tactics.
A British animal rights theologian argues that hunting is comparable to rape, child abuse and torture.
But Canadian government says HSUS is distorting the reason and methods behind the seal hunt.
Activist Barbara Rosen protests an art installation at Southern Oregon University featuring goldfish in fish bowls.
Activists charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief for splattering flake blood on New York building.
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Animal rights activists applaud move, while rsearchers complain it will add burdensome record keeping requirements.
API likely to focus more on animal experimentation.
Ontario Appeals Court rejects claims by convicted cat torturer that he was simply making art.
Supermarkets will only sell eggs from hens raised in open barn or free range farms.
But Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty tries to spin HLS first quarter results as bad news for the company.
PETA activists drench themselves in fake blood to protest Vogue editor's promotion of fur.
British researchers transplant nerve cells from nose into damaged spinal cord.
Danish museum director is acquitted of animal cruelty charges stemming from goldfish-in-a-blender art installation.
But local vegetarian group seems skeptical that presence of mad cow will have much long term effect on meat consumption.
But the fundamental issue remains of how to determine whether or not non-human animals feel pain.
Humane Farm Animal Care unveils a new labelling program for producers who meet strict animal care guidelines.
On the 30th anniversary of Singer's "Animal Liberation" essay, the philosopher looks at what has and has not changed.
PETA's Holocaust expert renders the study of Nazi genocide irrelevant with his insight.
It's a bit amusing how quickly animal rights extremists are to complain about "harassment" when its directed at them.
Goodall displays the sort of expertise about animal behavior that illustrates how seriously we should take her views of medical research.
Apparently oysters have rights and there is a great chain of hierarchy in the animal world.
Newkirk uses her last will and testament to gain publicity for PETA and the animal rights movement.
Lawyer Lesli Bisgould will head up Friend of Animals' new Canadian office.
Spokespersons for Friends of Animals say its wrong to have animals race for human entertainment.
Bacteriophage vaccines would be far cheaper to produce than conventional vaccines, which would be a boon to the developing world.
Don Hendershot says that breast cancer survivors who fish are simply perpetuating pain and suffering.
How dare Ontario's Minister of Natural Resources actually enforce laws designed to stop the spread of rabies.
Coronado thinks he and ALF/ELF terrorists will be heroes 100 years from now.
Earth Liberation Front believed behind arson of 6 homes under construction since August 2002.
The Washington Post looks at animal rights groups that target animal agriculture courses on campus.
When you're involved in a losing argument, the best approach is to throw large rocks and try to kick down doors.
What the hell is wrong with these art students?
Also contemplates boycotting annual trip to twin city in France to protest bullfighting.
The media can't make up its mind whether two new studies of the Atkins Diet mean it works or not.
And Jeff Nelson wonders if people who eat meat are still vegetarians -- well they are to PETA.
Fund for Animals had sued to prevent the eradication plan which involved poisoning the rats.
What person in their right mind would come to the defense of a couple who almost starved their daughter to death on a bizarre vegetarian diet?
Denver Police Department files on Boulder-area animal rights group revealed after ACLU files lawsuit on Denver police spying.
A good example of PETA's idea of ethical behavior.
If Ron Arnold's claims are so off the wall, why hasn't PETA sought a legal remedy to reclaim its sullied reputation?
You just couldn't make this sort of stuff up if you tried.
Sarah Fox shows the right way to go about refuting animal rights nonsense about medical research.
Police raid Tiger Rescue organization and find dozens of animal carcasses and appalling conditions.
Research in mice proves that adult stem cells can transform into any type of brain cell.
But Duke is a good fit to be featured in PETA ad.
Man sues for $46 million over Animal Precinct show that featured his arrest on charges of animal cruelty of which he was later acquitted.
Rules that the rodeo's use of the cattle prods was consistent with California state law.
Animal rights activists appalled that research into deadly viruses actually involves infecting animals with said viruses.
Researchers who had forecast tens of thousands of vCJD cases revise their projections down based on the decline in new cases over the past couple years.
For once PETA has problem spreading manure.
Poll shows overwhelming rejection of animal rights ideology, but also need to further educate about complex issues.
Will Pamelyn Vlasak finally have to serve her 30 day conviction dating from 1999?
In Defense of Animals displays its typical level of accuracy in criticizing a proposed New York state anti-terrorism bill.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________. . .
PETA tells air travellers to avoid meat to stop SARS.
Friends of Animals loses final round of appeals over verdict that awarded trapper $100,000 after a biologist working for Friends of Animals released a wolf from a trap in 1997.
Do fish really feel pain? That depends on what you mean by "pain."
Eighteen year old who sued to take experimental drug finds no side effects and significant physiological improvements in first few months on drug.
USDA releases production and income statistics for animal agriculture in 2002.
First test case of Scotland's ban on fox hunting with hounds.
Such a lawsuit would only help, no hurt PETA's ridiculous campaign.
New mouse strain could provide valuable information on how immune response can be boosted to fight cancer.
Rockingham and Cockburn buck trend of Australian cities banning circuses that feature exotic animals.
Law will allow hunting on two Sundays in November in effort to better control state's deer population.
Considers using a different auditing firm every year.
PETA says poisoning stray animals is unnecessary and cruel.
Arab satellite network turns down $10,000 to air spot showing graphic video of animal slaughter.
Fund for Animals urges activists to contact Montana governor to veto bill authorizing hunt.
Of course there was no ongoing research involving the animals covered by the ban in Sweden.
The former-Earth Liberation Front spokesman continues to show his true stripes.
Zoos want elephants for breeding programs, but PETA says they should remain in Africa.
On the horrors of using dolphins to search for mines and using animals to test the safety of anthrax vaccines.
But proposed change is unlikely to be taken up by legislature anytime soon.
PETA takes out another classy billboard.
Law makes damage designed to disrupt a farm operation a felony.
Faced with opposition from its own science committee and farm ministers, the European Union is likely to focus animal transportation regulations away from maximum distance and time edicts.
Only 32 percent of medical schools still use live animals, down from 73 percent in 1985.
City will pay $101 in damages and revise its ordinances regarding protests.
People who lose weight on low carbohydrate diets do so because they're reducing calories not because they're eating fewer carbohydrates.
PETA and Michael Greger claim the 1918 influenza was caused by the meat industry -- of course they get the facts wrong as usual.
There are still a lot of obstacles to doing this sort of thing routinely, but at least the concept is now well proven.
Sentencing will wait appeal of other man involved in taping the torture and killing of a cat.
Would join the European Union in banning virginiamycin in animal feed.
Unknown animal activists vandalizes signs for a rubber duck derby.
World's first cloned mammal displayed in Scottish museum as part of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA's structure.
Australia has previously used viruses to control its rabbit population, and may soon use a genetically modifid herpes virus to keep mouse populations in check.
Although not granting legal rights to animals, pets will be given additional legal considerations.
Bullfighting is not that popular in the Catalonia region compared to the rest of Spain, so activists decided to concentrate their efforts there.
PETA has never been one to let the facts interfere with its nonsensical claims about medical research.
Amendment would require a 4/7ths supermajority to approve all ballot initiatives that touch on fishing and wildlife issues.
Transplanting tissues from animals to human beings is saving lives right now.
Since those responsible for an illegal animal ring were already convicted by courts, the ALF figured it would endanger the lives of firefighters just to make a point.
Yourofsky condones arson and even murder in the name of animal rights, but throws a tantrum at the site of a few anti-animal rights pamphlets.
Saunders points out that PETA cares more for the welfare of a pigeon than for a 19-year-old soldier.
Compound neutralizes ability of HIV to target important cell receptions and stops transmission of HIV-like diseases in non-human primates.
Mice with artificial prions resist scrapie proteins three months longer than a control group.
Only 6 months after being readmitted to the International Whaling Commission, Iceland announces intention to kill up to 250 whales for research purposes.
A survey of attitudes toward animal research in 13 European countries yields some intriguing results.
Despite protests from animal rights activists, foie gras stayed on the menu in Singapore gourmet summit.
Wolfgang Ullrich stole tens of millions from large German animal charity.
Yourofsky is touring colleges telling anyone who will listen that humans are herbivores and he's just like Jesus and Ghandi. Good for him!
He wanted to show students the horrors of animal slaughter, but his demonstration fell on deaf ears to animal rights activists.
Canadian government once again has to drop legal proceedings against ALF activist and former spokesman.
Genetically modified goats would produce large quantities of a naturally occuring compound that neutralizes nerve gas.
Two academics' opinions on the use of animals during wartime.
Wisconsin joins 9 other states in offering constitutional protection for hunting and fishing.
Dan Murphy hits the nail on the head with his retort to Newkirk.
Success of ban on pig gestation crates was the last straw for some lawmakers concerned with the ease with which amendments to the Florida state Constitution are made.
Researchers create virus that when delivered orally causes mice to develop immune response to plague bacterium.
Hopefully their march will be a bit more interesting and accurate than their manifestos and statements of purpose.
Highlights Cass' courageous stand in the face of terrorist threats and assaults from animal rights activists, and his amazing success at bring HLS further toward profitability despite the extraordinary campaign of hostility against the company and Cass personally.
Threat of ALF terrorism apparently drives small supplier of cats out of business.
Spanish extremists torch a fur farm and dedicate their arson to Barry Horne and the Palestinians.
Circuit Court overturns lower court decision that had delayed mourning dove hunt for two years.
PETA and its opponents sound off on poultry practices.
Animal rights group said there was an effective non-animal alternative, but court agrees with military that trauma surgeons need experience with living animal.
Animal rights activists and island caretakers argue over the most humane way to remove hedgehogs from island.
Butcher animals, not the English language.
Says Pim Fortuyn's attitudes toward animals was among the reasons that he murdered the political candidate.
Site of January 2000 arson that caused $250,000 in damages is again attacked by animal rights extremists.
Rules that PETA can't sue California Milk Advisory Board over ad featuring happy cows.
Semi-nude protestor charged with disorderly conduct.
Method would replace slow, expensive process using horses with quick, cheap process involving chickens.
Judge strikes three groups from settlement for conflict of interest, but ignores animal rights and vegetarian groups who say anti-vegetarian groups are improperly included in settlement.
Grey2K USA plans to bring up alleged cruelty to dogs and proposed move to take company private at next shareholders' meeting.
Presumably, Luers will have a lot of time to write about his experience during the next 13 years or so that he will have to spend in jail.
Schnell says activists must convince the masses -- and trying to torch several dairy trucks as he and Matthew Whyte planned was certainly a brilliant way to accomplish that.
Lawsuit maintains the Interior Department did not study the environmental impact of hunting before permitting it in wildlife refuges.
PETA's Stephanie Boyles complains that dolphins have minds of their own and shouldn't be used for mine sweeping duty.
Why do humans get sick and die from HIV exposure, but most non-human primates do not? Part of the answer has to do with the way the immune system responds to infection.
Four homes under construction have been burned down over last 7 months, with ELF slogans spray painted at the latest fire.
Chrissie Hynde might talk about the need for people to "take the law in their own hands" up to and including the murder of researchers, but hey -- she really cares about chickens.
Group reportedly offered PETA $10,000 to pretend the ad shoot never happened.
Coston receives 100 hour community service and $200 fine for removing injured lamb from farm.
Of course, one of these days they're going to have to stop talking and actually do something about animal rights extremism.
With any luck, next time Sonia Hayward will receive a sentence a bit longer than 15 months, but it's a start.
A new poll finds 90 percent of the British public conditionally supports animal research.
Newkirk says PETA doesn't target kids, but its Hispanic Outreach coordinator hands out ethnic-themed Milk Trading Cards to school kids anyway.
But it's still unlikely that birds would make good biological/chemical weapons detectors.
Reed urges activists to lodge ridiculous complaints over and ad for allergy medicine.
The debate over culling deer in Princeton Township seems like it was scripted by a soap opera writer.
Neal Barnard says high-protein diets are based on "misinformation" -- and if anyone knows about misinformation, it's Barnard and PCRM.
Iditarod opponents want teacher to stop using race in her classroom.
If Huntingdon Life Sciences doesn't find a firm to prepare its SEC-required audits, it could face being delisted in the United States.
Farmers see it as a way to eliminate pests, animal rights activists see at as barbarous cruelty.
Science and Innovation Minister promises more action against animal rights extremists.
Animal rights extremists steal goats from farm that supposedly supplied animals to Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Somebody runs off with protesters clothes after they strip to protest fur.
High protein diets are a problem for people with kidney disease, but are not likely to cause such diseases.
James Rose publishes study claiming that fish don't feel pain because they lack a specific region of the neocortex where pain sensations occur in animals.
Large majorities claim to be opposed to animal testing in poll sponsored by French animal rights group.
Method pioneered in animal studies and proven to work in meningitis vaccines used in Europe and the United States is now being used to develop a cheap, effective vaccine for meningitis A in the sub-Saharan Africa.
Canada wants to allow hunters to kill up to 1 million Harp seals over the next three years.
But it should raise those funds voluntarily, rather than collecting them from pork producers who may not agree with the National Pork Producers Council's agenda.
Plan now awaits approval from Alaska's Governor and the state Fish and Game Department.
Times uses interesting discovery by researchers for bizarre needling of scientists.
Report says the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs intensified the outbreak by not acting more quickly and decisively.
The former ALF spokesman urges widespread rioting and attacks on military facilities in the United States.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans its annual protests against organization trying to prevent birth defects.
Researchers turn off gene in mice that causes Huntington's in human beings.
SHAC claims it has received a detailed list of HLS customers and contracts from an insider at the company.
The Fund's claim that high income shopper's find fur socially irresponsible comes from a polling company with an agenda.
A week after failing to burn down a McDonald's, Animal Liberation Front extremists fail to burn down a second McDonald's.
Minor damage to McDonald's restaurants, but damage to Arby's estimated at $80,000.
Says fund that is mean to promote adoption of racing greyhounds is being used by groups opposed outright to greyhound racing.
Drifter who videotaped torturing and killing cat as "art project" finally arrested.
Neither PETA nor Ringling Brothers requested case file to be sealed.
Concern over increase in bear complaints and attacks leads New Jersey to consider its first bear hunt since 1970.
UPC will one again protest outside the White House during the annual egg roll there.
Winfrey gave mink-trimmed slippers in mink carrying bags to some of her guests on a recent show.
Taylor disrupted Paris fashion shows and stripped nude in Beijing for the animals (which was only a slight improvement over a streaking Bruce Friedrich).
Extremists tried to firebomb trucks and garage at factory that produces feed for fur farms.
Home Office report thoroughly debunks British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection's distortion of conditions at Cambridge University primate facility.
Friedrich tells a reporter that PETA "fights for kindness" forgetting to point out that he also supports arson and other acts of violence.
Study that featured a small number of children with peanut allergies finds a possible link.
Several Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty Activists are sentenced to a year in jail for various animal rights extremist crimes.
Jury examined Horne's death to make sure his decision to end his life was made voluntarily and with a sound mind.
Most of the chickens died before ever being put into service and the whole plan was predicated on a gross oversimplification of chicken biology.
Bill that would change participating in a cockfight from a felony to misdemeanor now goes to Oklahoma state House.
Alaska Game Board proposes killing wolves to promote growth of moose herd.
SHAC once again finds that intimidation and threats work against tertiary targets.
Court rules that even though charges against activist were dropped, he still has standing to challenge Utah's hate crimes statute.
After saying he wouldn't be pressured into pleading guilty to criminal trespass, Webb does just that and is fined $1,000.
Sheriff's office alleges activist reported 200-300 dogs in distress, but investigation turned up 60 well-fed, healthy dogs.
Rural senators would like to reduce cockfighting from a felony to a misdemeanor.
Only Louisiana and New Mexico still permit cockfighting. But banning the practice in New Mexico will be an uphill struggle.
Questions are raised over tax exempt status of two vegetarian groups, but judge seems to ignore objections from animal rights groups.
The Animal Rights Foundation of Florida has been saying that David Siegel supports animal abuse. Now Siegel's lawyers say that's slander and defamation of character.
While it is busy building a new primate facility, OHSU decides to train its employees on how to respond to animal rights threats and present the pro-animal research case to the media.
Newspaper gets hold of SHAC dossier containing information on 100 companies that are supposedly customers of Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Activists steal chickens used in vaccine research for animal diseases.
Just when you think PETA couldn't get more idiotic, it takes the public face of the animal rights movement even further to the extremes.
Bill moving through state Senate would make cockfighting and dog fighting a Class C felony.
Appeal stems from Ferdin's conviction for actions at a circus protest in 2000.
ALF claimed as many as 1,000 mink released, but owner says all but 50 of the animals were quickly rounded up and returned.
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty's two-week long campaign of harassment convinces acounting firm to abandon HLS.
Majority opinion says that even where protest actions are clearly criminal, it is improper to characterize them as extortion.
But will such a bill survive the scrutiny of the courts?
McDonald's employees discover two gallon milk jug containers filled with flammable liquids accompanied by animal rights slogans.
PETA's Daphna Nachminovitch says people can care about human beings and animals at the same time. So why don't they?
Pigs that are PERV-free and absent two genes that would result in radical rejection by the human immune system bring xenotransplantation closer.
After a fox attacked his infant son, father had the animal trapped and killed.
British TV chef has been sprayed with red paint by animal rights activists and receives regular death threats due to her outspoken support of hunting.
The number of annual deaths from Mad Cow Disease in Great Britain falls to 17 in 2002, continuing a declining trend in mortality from the disease over the past three years.
City Councillor decries the "shrill voices of fanatics" who wanted to ban circus animals.
Jacob Sherman draws only a three year prison sentence due, in large part, to his cooperation with authorities.
The lesson here is don't attempt to suborn perjury.
Jay Leno earns animal activist's wrath for a few jokes about animals.
Animal rights activist Pattrice Le-Muire Jones opposes a possible war with Iraq because animals might be killed too.
FDA proposes banning brains and spinal cord from all rendered products.
As long as they don't use animals, however, Ingrid Newkirk says it's not PETA's business to oppose terrorist bombings of people. That was a shock.
Annette Crosbie talks to a Mirror reporter about how human beings are "the nastiest species of animal on the planet."
Opposition to Newfoundland seal hunt dooms Rick Smith's selection as chief of staff to newly elected NDP leader Jack Layton.
Activists show up to court to protest proposed distribution of $10 settlement.
Extremists cut brake lines and damage refrigeration units in delivery trucks.
Court rules that small, residential breeders of cats and dogs are like retail pet stores and free from regulation by the USDA under the Animal Welfare Act.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruling on lawsuit brought by the Doris Day Animal League seeking to have small residential cat and dog breeders regulated as animal wholesalers by the USDA.
But even some hunt supporters wonder if this is the best way to counter the animal rights movement.
John McDougall whines about report of B12 deficiences in vegan babies, and complains about an alleged trend toward bigger babies -- despite the attendant decrease in infant mortality that is correlated with larger birth weights.
Report says risk of BSE outbreaks highest in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Report outlines the importance of supplementing B-12 for people on vegetarian or vegan diets.
Story about the EU requiring farmers to supply pigs with toys doesn't stand up to close scrutiny.
Researcher say there is no inspection and detection system for fruits and vegetables like there is for meat.
British police elect to drop ridiculous case against pro-hunt columnist, Robin Page.
Although banned in many European nations, this would be first ban on declawing in the United States.
The European Parliament approves a ban on cosmetics testing that might actually go into effect someday.
Board members targeted by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty resign and are replaced by two international businessmen.
If approved by mayor, language would replace pet "owner" with "owner-guardian" in San Francisco's municipal code.
First ever gene therapy cure appears to increase the risk of leukemia in the children who have received it.
The primate expert offers a stunning argument against medical experiments with animals.
Ingrid Newkirk identifies a probable animal hoax -- and she is certainly the