Category: News Articles

Hitting the Brakes on Animal Research: Why Targeting Transport Companies Is Key

from South Florida Smash HLS Animal research is big business. Those who poison and mutilate nonhumans to death under the guise of science usually wear lab coats, but researchers are only part of the picture: They’re propped up by an elaborate, profit-driven network of breeders, universities, feed suppliers, restraint manufacturers, veterinarians, pharmaceutical moguls, private security …

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“Terrorism” Law Targeting Animal Rights Activists is Unconstitutional, Attorneys Argue in Court

Center for Constitutional Rights Contact: press@ccrjustice.org   September 21, 2016, Chicago – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to strike down the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA). In United States v. Johnson, two animal rights activists were convicted of “terrorism” …

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Scholar-Activist Spotlight with Press Office Advisor Yesim Nurova

The Institute for Critical Animal Studies Yesim Nurova is a journalist affiliated with R9 Media. She is an animal rights activist known throughout Turkey and Europe. She has organized and led some of the largest animal liberation and animal rights demonstrations and protests, many with a Direct Action component, in Asia. Also, she is the Founder of …

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Black Power Icon Goes Vegan to Save Animals

By Cliff Kincaid —— Canada Free Press Former top communist, college professor and “Black Power” advocate Angela Davis has picked a new cause on the road to liberation—animal rights. In a major speech in black-ruled South Africa, at the 17th Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, she said animals were “sentient beings who endure pain and torture as …

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Animal Abuser Meets Justice by Animal Rights Activists

The Sun VIGILANTE JUSTICE Disturbing moment man who livestreamed himself having sex with DOGS is stripped naked and savagely beaten by animal rights activists Filmed in China, the angry mob reportedly lured the alleged canine abuser to a sham ‘meet-up’ where they unleashed the attack A MAN who allegedly livestreamed himself raping dogs was stripped and …

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When Does Animal Rights Activism Become Extremism? 

San Francisco Weekly By Jeremy LybargerWednesday, Aug 5 2015 On July 28, the FBI arrested Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane, two Oakland-based animal rights activists accused of releasing thousands of mink from fur farms during multiple cross-country sprees in 2013. The couple were also charged with vandalizing property owned by the meat and fur industries, …

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Police: Michigan Dog Breeder Beat Close To Death, Ear Cut Off For Abusing Pit Bulls

A Michigan dog breeder was reportedly tied, beaten and had his ear cut off, possibly in retaliation for his involvement in dog fighting, police say. The 52-year-old dog breeder from Detroit had at least 16 pit bulls chained up in the backyard of one of his homes, as well as another dozen dogs living in …

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Animal Rights Extremists: Pair Took Law into Their Own Hands

06/10/16 FBI Bulletin On an August night in 2013, a family-owned mink farm in Morris, Illinois came under attack. Approximately 2,000 minks were released from their cages, an acidic substance was poured over two trucks parked on the property, and a sign spray-painted on the barn declared, “Liberation is Love.” Some 24 hours later, when …

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Animal rights group claims responsibility for bus arson

A Finnish animal rights group has reportedly claimed responsibility for setting fire to several long distance buses parked at a bus depot in Vantaa, which caused more than one million euros in damage Friday morning. The activist group said the action was a protest against the bus company Pohjolan Matka, saying the firm cooperates with …

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USDA publishes 2015 Animal Research Statistics

From “Speaking of Research”, a pro-vivisection, anti-activists website. by Editor Congratulations to the USDA/APHIS for getting ahead of the curve for a second time and making the US the first country to publish its 2015 animal research statistics. Overall, the number of animals (covered by the Animal Welfare Act) used in research fell 8% from …

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Two Heroes Off to Prison

Chad Nelson | @cnels43 | Support this author on Patreon | May 3rd, 2016 Center for a Stateless Society What a sick world we live in where Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane, two individuals so passionate about the lives of the earth’s most vulnerable, must fight for their own lives for having the courage to …

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Animal Rights Activist Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Vandalism, Freeing Mink

Democracy Now! An animal rights activist has been sentenced to two years in prison on accusations of freeing mink from fur farms and vandalizing property linked to the fur and meat industries. Joseph Buddenberg had been charged under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a 2006 law that elevates crimes like vandalism to terrorist offenses if …

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$100K reward offered for ‘animal rights extremists’ after 500 minks freed in Ontario

The Canada Mink Breeders Association is offering up a $100,000 reward for any information leading to the capture of what it calls the “animal rights extremists” responsible for releasing 500 minks from a southwestern Ontario farm. Ontario Provincial Police were called to the farm in Brant County after a report of a break-in Saturday morning, after holes were …

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Police investigate alleged vandalism after 500 minks set loose in southern Ontario

Animal-rights ‘extremists’ blamed after holes were cut into walls in a Brant County farm overnight and minks set loose; newborn kits might die as a result, say OPP.       By Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press Sat., April 30, 2016 BRANT COUNTY, ONT.—Police are investigating what they’re calling an act of vandalism — and what …

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Animal Activists Are Shouting Out Their Crimes Online

By Josh Saul Nicole Kissane and Joseph Buddenberg spray-painted the word killer in red on the front of Furs by Graf in San Diego, glued the locks, and sprayed smelly butyric acid into the store. The animal rights activists then walked to the homes of the store’s elderly owners, where they spray-painted animal murderer in …

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