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| 11/20/09 |
Will PETA Protest Itself?
When British entrepreneur Simon Buckhaven invented an electric gizmo that kills lobsters and crabs “more humanely” than the traditional method of dispatching the creatures—in a pot of boiling water—no one was surprised to see People...
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| 11/17/09 |
Sucker, Can You Spare a Dime (for HSUS)?
Wayne Pacelle, president of the animal-rights advocating Humane Society for the United States (HSUS), sent out an urgent appeal yesterday: HSUS needs to raise $25,000 in order to run pressure ads to badger a restaurant company...
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| 11/13/09 |
Exposing the Animal Rights Agenda
Millions have already downloaded and read our primers on animal rights groups. Called “7 Things You Didn’t Know,” these easy-to-read sheets expose the wholesale deception and backward philosophies of groups like People for the Ethical...
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| 11/12/09 |
The Bacon Beckoning
A new blog features the interesting conversion story of a self-identified former “militant vegan” who changed his ways and became a full-fledged meat eater, starting a website called “The Ethical Butcher.” On his site, the...
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| 11/5/09 |
Vegetarian Book Makes Meatless Arguments
When even a vegetarian calls your anti-meat book a “screed,” you know you’re in trouble. But that’s just what happened in today’s Washington Times review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals. As reviewer A.G. Gancarski puts it, Foer’s book...
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| 11/4/09 |
All Hail the Supreme Master! (Of Anti-Meat Propaganda)
What do you get when you combine two obnoxious animal rights groups (the ridiculously misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the phony-baloney Humane Society of the United States) with a self-anointed “Supreme Master” cult...
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| 11/3/09 |
Marley and Meat
If you follow the animal-rights movement, you might have caught wind of novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s first attempt at polemic in his new book, Eating Animals. In the tradition of Michael Pollan and Food Inc.,...
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| 10/30/09 |
Quote of the Week
Last night in Los Angeles, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) president Wayne Pacelle showed why he’s been able to turn a group that sounds as if it’s all about protecting puppies and kittens...
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| 10/29/09 |
“Physicians Committee” Abuses the Law. Again.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a ridiculously misnamed animal rights group, filed a complaint with the USDA yesterday against a Massachusetts hospital that uses pigs in its trauma treatment training. PCRM claims the...
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| 10/26/09 |
Cracking the Shell of Animal Rights Activism
It’s flu season, and as The New York Times reports today, President Obama has declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a national emergency while supplies of H1N1 flu vaccines are lagging. People have even been camping...
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| 10/23/09 |
‘PETA Tötet Tiere,’ and Other Useful German Phrases
When we translated our wildly popular “PETA Kills Animals” website into German, French, Italian, and Russian, we thought maybe—just maybe—a handful of consumers in a few of PETA’s biggest expansion markets might learn a bit...
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| 10/22/09 |
Meet the Animal Rights Movement’s Rich Aunt
The deceptively named “Cancer Project” animal-rights group is at it again. This time its target isn’t hot dog makers, but grilled-chicken servers. The group, a branch of the PETA-linked Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM),...
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| 10/14/09 |
PETA Stunts Are Still Trashy
Targeting elementary school children with a bloody elephant character? That was so last week. This week, PETA put up a billboard in the United Kingdom featuring a child killer near the victim's home. But (thankfully)...
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| 9/22/09 |
HSUS Targets Ohio in Political Cockfight
The animal-rights industry is pushing back against Issue 2, a ballot initiative in Ohio that would create a board to develop statewide standards for livestock care. But even if it passes, Issue 2 is not...
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| 9/15/09 |
HSUS’s Best Friend?
A columnist at the Baltimore Sun offers an ironic take on the relationship between disgraced felon Michael Vick and the animal rights radicals at the so-called Humane Society of the United States, identifying it as...
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| 9/10/09 |
One Step Closer to a PETA White House
Yesterday, the Senate voted 63-35 to invoke cloture on the nomination of animal rights activist Cass Sunstein to be the nation’s new “regulatory czar,” which means the Senate can proceed with a vote to confirm...
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| 9/4/09 |
Quotes of the Week
The extremists at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals can engage in some rather boneheaded antics in the name of animal “rights” (or just attracting the media). Of course, their idiotic ploys are...
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| 9/2/09 |
Vegan Activists Have Egg On Their Face
Vegan activist group Mercy for Animals (MFA) released a video yesterday (viewer discretion advised) showing a behind-the-scenes look at an egg hatchery in Iowa. Among other things, the video shows male chicks being euthanized. The...
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| 8/28/09 |
Adventures in Food Choice
A veterinarian writing in USA Today offers this food for thought: Being a veterinarian and caring for animals doesn’t mean that you have to stop eating animal products. Her story raises an interesting point about foods we like...
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| 8/21/09 |
PETA Activists Are a Bunch of Blowholes
We never seem to run out of attempts by self-anointed “food police” groups to regulate our diets for us through soda or food taxes and frivolous lawsuits. And as we told you last week, the...
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