• EU chemicals law "spells surge in animal testing" Far-reaching European safety rules on tens of thousands of chemicals used in everything from car seats to face cream will lead to a surge in animal testing and should be urgently reviewed, scientists...
• School lunches go vegetarian Comment: I became a vegetarian for purely ethical reasons, but as Peak Oil makes itself felt even more, most people will be forced into eating quasi-vegetarian diets, meaning they will be able to eat...
• Horse Meat: Horses found slaughtered in the night near Miami, black market blamed Excerpt: At least 17 horses have been found slaughtered in Miami-Dade County during the night when the animals' owners were asleep. Law enforcement officials refuse to speculate publicly about...
• Che Guevara’s Granddaughter Goes Nude For PETA Campaign Che Guevara was a Marxist leader who started a revolution in Cuba. Now his granddaughter is following in his footsteps, starting her own revolution ... for vegetarians. According to the Associated...
• Britons dump their pets as credit crunch bites Britons may have a reputation as animal-lovers but they are increasingly dumping their pets as they struggle to cope with the impact of economic downturn. The Royal Society for the Prevention of...
• US military blew up pigs to test body armour American military researchers have blown up live pigs dressed in body armour in an attempt to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury. Researchers strapped pigs and rats into...
• A monkey who was forced to climb palm trees by his owner took revenge by killing him with a coconut The animal threw the missile from the top of a tree after becoming frustrated with his tiring labour, according to reports.
Leilit Janchoom, 48, had employed the monkey to pick coconuts which he...
• FBI Arrests Four Animal Rights Activists, Claims “Terrorism” Federal authorities have arrested four animal rights activists suspected in anti-vivisection actions in Santa Cruz and Alameda counties, a federal terrorism task force reported Friday.The Joint...
• PETA Urges Obama to Give Kids Vegetarian School Lunches Well, President Obama this week said he was "open to any idea, whether it comes from a Democrat or a Republican or a vegetarian." So, here comes People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals with its...
• Video: Kittens used as bait for sharks and marlin! A fishing guide and former live fishing reporter for one of our local news stations finds out about this on a trip to Venezuela. He says many of the participants are American. Please help him bring...
• First US count finds 1 in 200 kids are vegetarian Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team -- a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that's nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian. "I get a lot of...
• The Rights Of Animals The notion that animals should have rights was widely ridiculed when it was first advocated in the 1970s. Now it is getting more respect. The movement has gained tens of millions of adherents and has...
• Animal Rights Yesterday, the millions of animals used each year in Europe's laboratories finally got some hope for a better future. After seven years of delay, the European Commission has at last published its...
• Proposal to kill wild horses angers US activists A proposal to kill thousands of mustangs roaming the western United States has angered animal welfare groups, which say horses are paying the price for years of bureaucratic mismanagement. Around...
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