Nov 08
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rejected a challenge by two animal rights activists to the constitutionality of a federal law used to prosecute them for breaking into an Illinois farm and releasing more than 2,000 minks into the wild. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago refused …
Nov 07
“We’re daring these industries to try us in the court of public opinion and in the court of law.” Kiera Butler Mother Jones Magazine Nov. 7, 2017 When Julianne Perry first met the calf this summer, the animal was lying listlessly in a wooden crate on top of narrow slats, caked in her own dried …
Oct 31
Press Officer Will Hazlitt interview with Ministry Of Tomorrow magazine. “Any and all actions which result in the liberation of animals from conditions of abject slavery and oppression are to be lauded. And as is almost uniformly the case the liberated animals are provided homes where they can live out their natural lives free from the torment …
Oct 10
Mackensy Lunsford Asheville Citizen-Times Natalie Bogwalker, the woman behind the sustainable skills school at the heart of the debate, said she’s receiving emails and phone calls threatening her with physical harm, and even death. “(There are) a lot of people hoping we die a painful death, wishing people would slit our throats, and saying that we’re sick and …
Oct 05
Glenn Greenwald October 5 2017, 2:05 p.m The Intercept FBI agents are devoting substantial resources to a multistate hunt for two baby piglets that the bureau believes are named Lucy and Ethel. The two piglets were removed over the summer from the Circle Four Farm in Utah by animal rights activists who had entered the Smithfield Foods-owned factory farm to …
Sep 15
Science It started in May with a web post by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). “Tell Yale University to Stop Tormenting Birds!” the headline read, followed by text accusing postdoc Christine Lattin of abusing wild house sparrows. Emails from PETA supporters began flooding Lattin’s inbox. “You should kill yourself, you sick bitch!” …
Sep 11
An Erie animal sanctuary got a jolt on Thursday, August 31, when agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations arrived to allegedly inquire about the status of two pigs — Lucy and Ethel — who were “rescued” by animal-rights activists from a Utah factory farm in early July. Luvin Arms, a self-described “farm animal sanctuary,” …
Sep 07
One AR organization believes the agency is targeting vegan activism Maria Chiorando An animal rights group has accused the FBI of ‘intimidating vegan activists’. According to global animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere [DxE], FBI agents in bulletproof vests descended on two shelters for abandoned farm animals last week – Ching Farm Rescue in Herriman, Utah and Luvin …
Sep 01
Foreign Policy Militant environmentalism is coming. And we aren’t ready for it. If military strategists are always fighting the last war, the same is true of those who work on countering radicalization. In 2001, Western intelligence services, mostly focused on localized terrorist groups like the Irish Republican Army and ETA, were stunned by al Qaeda. …
Aug 24
How Jake Ferguson’s betrayal resulted in the largest roundup of eco-defenders in US history.
Aug 23
Farmer sends gift of sausages to thank Wiltshire firefighters who rescued piglets and two sows from fire in barn The Guardian A farmer whose piglets were saved from a barn fire has served the animals up as sausages to thank the firefighters who rescued them. The baby pigs and two sows were freed by firefighters …
Aug 23
http://kwtv.videodownload.worldnow.com/KWTV_20170823081420733AA.mp4 By Grant Hermes, News 9 WASHINGTON – Senator Jim Inhofe announced the end of his annual wild pigeon, a cause for celebration for an animal rights group. The outdoor fundraiser had been the target of a multi-year campaign by Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, or SHARK, which alleged the event was cruel. In a series of emails obtained by the group, a staffer from Sen. …
Jul 23
Fur Commission USA (541) 595-8568 is offering $10,000 and Tri-County Crime Stoppers is offer $1,000 for information about how more than $750,000 worth of mink were released from Lang Farms near Eden Valley Gulf News AP Eden Valley, Minnesota: A fur trade organisation is among two groups offering a total of $11,000 reward for information …
Jul 21
Melania Capitan, 27, posted photos of her hunting activities on social media The online star reportedly killed herself and left a suicide note to friends This comes after it was reported that the internet star was threatened online Even after her death, her Facebook profile was inundated with messages praising the tragic news. One person …
Jul 20
(CNN) – Cecil the lion’s 6-year-old son was shot and killed by a big-game trophy hunter in western Zimbabwe earlier this month, according to a source familiar with the hunt. Xanda had been tracked with a fitted GPS satellite collar since 2015, the same year his father was killed. His death on July 7 was first …
