Jan 22
“You all have blood on your hands,” says the note. MTL (Montreal) Blog An animal-rights activist allegedly left a menacing note at Montreal’s Manitoba Restaurant on Tuesday evening. The activist also allegedly glued the locks, preventing the staff from entering the establishment. The Mile-End foodie hangout is known for its focus on farm-fresh, local ingredients, sourced from …
Jan 21
By Alex Wigglesworth Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Before sunrise one day in December, thieves sneaked into Anshu Pathak’s exotic meat farm in Riverside County and pulled off a singular heist. Someone cut away a section of fence. The evidence, Pathak said, suggests that they backed a trailer into the gap and lured up …
Jan 18
by Grace Dickinson Philadelphia Enquirer On Aug. 8, 1978, MOVE member Delbert Africa climbed out of his basement and raised his arms to the sky in surrender. The image soon became one of the most iconic photographs in Philadelphia history, as seconds later, police officers were caught on film beating Africa with a helmet and …
Jan 03
By David Figura | dfigura@nyup.com New York Upstate.com HANCOCK, N.Y. — Intimidated by threats and harassment from animal rights advocates, an Upstate NY fire department has cancelled its annual coyote hunting tournament, a fundraiser for the department. The Hancock Fire Department in Delaware County cancelled the hunting tournament Monday after an online petition opposing the event …
Dec 31
7news.com.au About two dozen llamas were discovered missing from an exotic animal farm in Southern California after a burglary, authorities say. The break-in happened on Monday morning at the 14-acre farm in the Riverside County town of Perris, about 110km southeast of downtown Los Angeles. “We received the call about 6:36am regarding numerous llamas and …
Dec 12
Natasha Lennard The Intercept “YOU SEE THE train coming, but it hits you anyway,” said animal rights activist Josh Harper. “They just went down the list and it was ‘guilty as charged,’ ‘guilty as charged,’ ‘guilty as charged’ — every defendant, every count.” This is how, in the new documentary film “The Animal People,” Harper describes …
Dec 11
RJ Wolcott Livingston Ledger EAST LANSING – In the early morning hours of Feb. 28, 1992, Rodney Coronado crept onto Michigan State University‘s campus. He wiggled his way through a first-floor window of Anthony Hall before kicking down the door to the office of Richard Aulerich. The MSU researcher spent decades studying nutrition and the decline …
Nov 26
Jill Ettinger LiveKindly.co A longtime vegan, ‘Joker’ star Joaquin Phoenix is using his platform for animal rights. Arthur Fleck is different. This is evident in the first five seconds of “Joker,” as tears drip down the clown for hire’s painted face. Fleck, played by actor Joaquin Phoenix, is of course, on his way to becoming …
Nov 21
Emma Tucker Daily Beast An animal rights activist is facing attempted murder charges after police say she stabbed a woman wearing faux fur boots in a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, church. The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Meredith Lowell, followed the woman, a babysitter who was dropping off children for choir practice, into the church before stabbing …
Nov 11
By Paul Walsh Star Tribune (Minneapolis) MINNEAPOLIS — Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said over the weekend that the destruction of a stand in the Prairie Farm area could be tied to similar incidents to the south in neighboring Dunn County, where the structures along with trail cameras were vandalized. “There may be a possible …
Oct 21
By Michael Bartiromo | Fox News For the second time in just weeks, deer stands in Wisconsin’s Dunn County were discovered vandalized with messages targeting the area’s hunters, including one message which read, “Hunt the hunters.” On Friday, the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the second deer stand — located in the Township of Dunn — had been spray-painted …
Oct 12
CBS News SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP/BCN) — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed a package of bills targeting animal cruelty, including the nation’s first state ban on the sale of new fur products. The prohibition on fur means it will be illegal to manufacture, sell, offer for sale, trade or distribute fur products in California. “California is …
Oct 08
By BRIAN MARKS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM {Press Office note: Get the ALF hoodie that Mr. Phoenix is wearing from the NAALPO merchandise shop here.] This weekend’s release of the pitch black Joker put theaters across the country on alert for disturbances. But some moviegoers in Los Angeles got a special treat Saturday when Joaquin Phoenix appeared in …
Oct 04
[Press Office note: There has been no claim for this action as of this posting.] Emma Keith, Detroit Free Press Michigan’s largest deer processing facility was severely damaged in a large fire early Friday morning. The fire at Country Smoke House, a beloved Almont, Michigan meat market and venison processing spot, started just before 12 a.m. …
