By AGDAILY Reporters From taking extreme action to liberate livestock to discussing the reproductive rights of female animals, animal rights activists covered it at all at their latest conference. And the Animal Agriculture Alliance has all the details, releasing a report today with their observations from the Animal Rights National Conference, held June 28 through July …
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Jun 25
French butchers issue plea for police protection from vegans after spate of attacks
The Telegraph French butchers have issued a plea for police protection against vegans, whom they blame for a series of attacks designed to “spread terror” among meat-lovers. The butchers say they are coming under “physical, verbal and moral” attack from vegans and animal rights groups in the land of the “steak frites”, and warn …
Jun 24
Founder of Marineland dies
ONTARIO, CA (WIVB) – The man behind a major Niagara Falls tourist destination died on Saturday.John Holer founded Marineland in Niagara Falls, Canada in 1961. Since then, the park has transformed in size. Marineland has faced criticism from animal rights groups in recent years. According to a lawyer for the park, Andrew Burns, Holer died peacefully at home, comforted …
Jun 14
Three years probation for men who slit dog’s throat on video
MOREHOUSE PARISH, La. (KNOE) — Sentences have been determined for Steven Sadler and Boots Stanley. Each was sentenced to three years probation with a $5,000 fine.The probation will be reassessed in one year. They potentially could be free from probation after that.They will have to spend 365 days in jail if they do not pay the …
Jun 13
He was trying to rescue a sick baby goat, he said. NC cops charged him with felonies.
Goats have the same feelings as a dog, and are just as deserving of good care, nationally known California-based animal activist Wayne Hsiung said. So that’s why he rescued a sick baby goat from a meat farm in Pisgah Forest, he said in a Facebook video. The black and white goat kid was “scared, alone, sick and needed to …
Jun 12
Animal rights activist charged in mink farm break-in
An animal activist’s online video campaign against mink farms has led to a criminal charge. Malcolm Klimowicz, the leader of the Kitchener Ontario Animal Liberation Alliance, was charged with break and enter this week at an Enniskillen area mink farm. The Schwirtz family, who own the farm near Guelph, are the first fur farmers to …
Jun 12
Animal rights activist makes first court appearance after allegedly taking baby goat
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A national animal rights activist made his first court appearance here in the mountains Tuesday. Wayne Hsiung was arrested Thursday after landing in Asheville where he was speaking at VeganFest. Authorities say Hsiung took a baby goat from the Sospiro Goat Ranch in Pisgah Forest, a business that specializes in providing goat …
Jun 04
Controversy as Spy-Cops poster taken down from Peterborough store after visit from off-duty officer (UK)
Cambridgeshire police are investigating complaints into tweets after an off duty officer visited a branch of Lush in Peterborough and a controversial ‘Spy-Cops’ advertising poster was removed. Paddy Reeve was out shopping with his family in the Queensgate shopping centre in the city when he saw the poster hanging in the window of the cosmetics …
May 29
DATELINE: The Vegan Wars
What’s behind the rise of extreme vegan activists? This week we meet a third-generation dairy farmer who’s been called a rapist and a murderer and the Australian vegan activist kicking up a storm in the UK. Dean Cornish, Naima Brown https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/vegan-wars You’ve heard of militant religious and political groups – but have you heard of militant …
May 27
Staff at Marlow Butchers in fear after vegan activists threatened to petrol bomb business
By Kristina Curtis kcurtis@thekmgroup.co.uk Anxious owners of a family-run butchers say they are living in fear after vegan activists threatened to petrol bomb their business. Marlow Butchers, in Beaver Lane, Ashford, was first targeted last Bank Holiday Monday when vandals sprayed paint on the shop front, daubing the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) logo under the window. …
May 21
5 animal rights activists charged with pilfering pigs in Utah
ByPat Reavy Deseret News (Utah) SALT LAKE CITY — Five California animal activists accused of stealing pigs from a farm in Beaver and talking about their actions on social media now face felony charges due in part to their own posts. The Utah Attorney General’s Office on Monday charged Wayne Hansen Hsiung, 36, of Berkeley; …
Apr 05
Press Office Spokesman Will Hazlitt interview with Newsweek regarding YouTube Shooting Incident
“The Animal Liberation Front has a more checkered history of damaging property and leaving an incendiary device on someone’s doorstep, but there’s no way to tell if Aghdam had any loyalty to them. “No one knows who is and who isn’t part of the ALF, it’s an underground anonymous organization,” Will Hazlitt, a spokesman for …
Apr 04
YOUTUBE SHOOTER WAS A VEGAN ACTIVIST, BUT PETA AND OTHER ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUPS DON’T CLAIM HER
BY KRISTIN HUGO ON 4/4/18 Updated |The identity of the suspect who allegedly opened fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday has revealed a bizarre social media user with a hatred of YouTube and a love for animals. But animal rights and welfare organizations claim to hardly know her, and there’s no indication that she was a prominent member of the animal …