Charities conducting or funding animal experiments in the US who are on Forbes’ list of top 50 charities (2014). There were nine charities that fit the bill: American Cancer Society Jude Children’s Research Hospital American Heart Association Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Mayo Clinic Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Alzheimer’s Association National Multiple …
March 2015 archive
Mar 24
Why You Can’t Bomb Your Way To Peace – Poem by Marius Mason
Why You Can’t Bomb Your Way To Peace Imagine A steel-walled room, enclosed and full Of children playing, grandmothers and the wash and angry young men with an ax to grind. Oh yes, and a single shooter. The loaded pistol raised, What moral authority will pull the trigger? And if it does, if judgment issues …
Mar 17
Pheasants Liberated by ALF in Beavercreek, Oregon
Received anonymously On the night of March 16th, 2015, a gate on an aviary was opened at the Estacada Game Farm (25395 South Beavercreek Road, Beavercreek, OR) liberating a flock of ring-necked pheasants into the wild. These birds were bred, among other reasons, to suffer and die in pre-orchestrated canned hunts; a practice which represents …
Mar 11
FBI Investigating Attempted Firebombing Of KFC; Animal Rights Group Suspected
Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The FBI is investigating an apparent attempt to firebomb a fast-food restaurant in Reno because of the possibility it could have been an act of domestic terrorism after the initials of an animal rights group were found scrawled on a drive-thru sign, local fire officials told The Associated Press …
Mar 11
Are Animal Activists Behind the Firebombing of a KFC?
by Khushbu Shah Eater.com The FBI is investigating. Someone tried to fry a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Reno, Nevada: According to KOLO TV, the restaurant was firebombed yesterday morning. When employees arrived at the restaurant, they found that a window had been shattered and that a “Molotov cocktail had been thrown inside.” Authorities tell the …
Mar 07
Dismissal Denied for Kevin and Tyler
Center for Constitutional Rights March 5 at 1:55pm ·We are very disappointed to announce that the judge in the case of two animal rights activists indicted on terrorism charges for allegedly releasing thousands of animals from fur farms has denied CCR’s motion to dismiss the case. The judge provided one bit of comfort by interpreting …
Mar 05
Ringling Bros. Circus vs. SeaWorld: One Will Survive, The Other Will Not
by Kenneth Lerer The Dodo The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced Thursday that it will phase out the use of elephants in its circuses. Why? Because it knew that if it didn’t do the “right” thing, it would be the end of its business. “There’s been somewhat of a mood shift among …