Tag Archives: animal rights

From PETA’s website: I, Chicken couples the most cutting-edge virtual reality (VR) hardware available—including wireless VR goggles, motion-capture cameras, and a powerful computer—with guidance from leading VR psychologists in order to immerse participants in a world where they can flap their wings, communicate with other chickens, take dust baths, and engage in other natural chicken behavior. But as participants soon …

Animal rights activists are furious with Whole Foods over the plan to begin selling rabbit meat. On Sunday, rabbit-lovers organized a national day of action to draw attention to the production and sale of rabbit meat at the grocery chain, warning that dogs and cats could be slaughtered for meat next and accusing Whole Foods of being “bunny butchers.” Proving …

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Details. UPDATE: The above-linked Mediaite story is dated today but their link goes to a 2011 news account of the incident. I should have caught that.

PETA, as they so often do, has caused quite the firestorm with today’s co-opting of Martin Luther King Day. “The fate of animals today is similar to that of humans who were subjected to slavery and other civil rights injustices—they, too, are tortured, abused, and neglected as humans once were and sometimes still are. More than 63 billion animals are …

The New York Daily News reports that one of the first acts by Mayor-elect Bill De Blasio will be to ban horse-drawn carriages, which have long been the target of animal rights activists. “We are going to get rid of the horse carriages. Period,” de Blasio said in response to a question at his press conference announcing his schools chancellor …

A New York-based animal rights group has filed a lawsuit demanding “legal personhood” for chimpanzees being kept as pets or in research labs. The lawsuit demands a writ of habeas corpus — essentially a document granting freedom — on behalf of Tommy the chimp so he can be moved to an animal sanctuary that’s more like his natural habitat than …

Please don’t shoo away disgusting, disease-carrying flying rats just because they shit all over everything. You wouldn’t like it if they did that to you.

Citing a change in “environmental conscience,” Costa Rica will close its zoos and release many of its animals back to the wild. “We are getting rid of the cages and reinforcing the idea of interacting with biodiversity in botanical parks in a natural way,” said Environment Minister René Castro. “We don’t want animals in captivity or enclosed in any way …

Via Copyranter at Buzzfeed.

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PETA has launched a campaign calling for a boycott of retail giant PetSmart until the chain “stops selling all animals.” The below undercover video depicts a (presumably PetSmart) staffer going behind the scenes at one store to film sick and dying animals that have been removed from the floor, making the claim that PetSmart allows the mistreatment of animals and …

PETA writes us today to ask that we look at their rebuttal to the Atlantic article I excerpted in yesterday’s post. Also from the Atlantic: PETA was floored by the title and tone of James McWilliams’ article about PETA’s euthanasia of some of the saddest dogs and cats in Virginia. While we appreciate that the editorial included some points on …

Pity the poor sea kitten that falls into PETA’s hands. The Atlantic has the horrible stats. In 2011, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) behaved in a regrettably consistent manner: it euthanized the overwhelming majority (PDF) of dogs and cats that it accepted into its shelters. Out of 760 dogs impounded, they killed 713, arranged for 19 to …

“The comment I made onstage at Warsaw could be further explained this way: Millions of beings are routinely murdered every single day in order to fund profits for McDonalds and KFCruelty, but because these murders are protected by laws, we are asked to feel indifferent about the killings, and to not even dare question them. If you quite rightly feel …

“Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can’t help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.” – Vegetarian and pop singer Morrissey, speaking to the Guardian. Morrissey later expanded on his remarks: “If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog …

Late last month a Spanish matador was grievously injured in Mexico, prompting renewed calls around the world to ban the “sport.” And yesterday in Madrid another matador was gored so grotesquely that many newspapers in Europe are under fire for having published a [WARNING!] horrific photo of the incident. I won’t post the photo here, but some animal rights activists …

One of the world’s most famous matadors was brutally injured during a bullfight in Mexico this weekend, prompting renewed calls to ban the “sport.” You may not want to watch this.