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  • June 2008

    • USMC Tosses Puppy-Throwing Marine

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 12, 08 12:00 PM CDT

      USMC Tosses Puppy-Throwing Marine

      One Marine is being expelled and another punished for their roles in the YouTube video posted in March that showed a puppy being thrown off an Iraq cliff, reports the AP. Lance Cpl. David Motari is "being processed for separation" from the Marine Corps—he and the Marine accused of taping the puppy's death also received unspecified "non-judicial punishment." More »

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      YouTube  • animal cruelty  • US Marine Corps  • puppy  • David Motari

  • May 2008

    • In Heroin Video, Angie Talks of Killing Pets

      newser  |  Sun (UK)  |  May 19, 08 12:35 PM CDT

      In Heroin Video, Angie Talks of Killing Pets

      A drug-filled home video from 1999 of then-23-year-old Angelina Jolie babbling about sadomasochistic sex and killing her pets has surfaced, the Sun reports. In the video, the noted humanitarian and mother of four describes how she killed her mouse when she dyed it blue and gave her hamster pneumonia when she brought it into the shower. More »

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      drugs  • Angelina Jolie  • animal cruelty  • video

    • Rapper DMX Arrested on Animal-Cruelty, Drug Charges

      newser  |  Arizona Republic (Phoenix)  |  May 9, 08 5:22 PM CDT

      Rapper DMX Arrested on Animal-Cruelty, Drug Charges

      Police arrested rapper DMX early this morning on animal-abuse and drug charges, the Arizona Republic reports. Police seized five pit bull puppies, and unknown quantities of marijuana and cocaine from the house northeast of Phoenix. More »

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      cocaine  • marijuana  • hip-hop  • animal cruelty  • rap music  • pit bull  • police raids  • DMX

  • March 2008

    • Man Eats Man's Best Friend

      newser  |  Salon  |  Mar 24, 08 1:10 PM CDT

      Man Eats Man's Best Friend

      While you're busy worrying about human rights in China, author and journalist Ted Kerasote argues, add animal rights to the list. After a trip to a ski camp in China where he was befriended by a "dead ringer for Lassie," he was appalled to find his canine pal served as the main dish at a feast in his honor. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • dog  • human rights  • pets  • animal cruelty  • cat  • animal rights

    • Elephant Bubble Plans Popped

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 15, 08 6:46 PM CDT

      Elephant Bubble Plans Popped

      A California science center has ditched plans to surround an elephant with a giant soap bubble, reports the LA Times, after a thousand outraged emailers protested the plan and zoo professionals blasted it as a "Vegas-style sideshow."  A "bubble artist" had planned to break a world record by blowing a bubble with a 39-year-old Asian elephant named Tai in it. More »

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      science  • art  • animal cruelty  • animal rights  • elephant

    • Meat Company Chief Admits Sick Cows Were Slaughtered

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 12, 08 3:51 PM CDT

      Meat Company Chief Admits Sick Cows Were Slaughtered

      The president of the California slaughterhouse caught up in a scandal over the abuse of cattle admitted to Congress today that sick cows from his plant entered the food supply, the Los Angeles Times reports. He backtracked from an earlier denial after a House panel made him watch a second undercover video. "Obviously my system broke down," said Steve Mendell of Westland/Hallmark Meat. More »

    • Pro Golfer Kills Hawk, Faces Charges

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 6, 08 9:53 PM CST

      Pro Golfer Kills Hawk, Faces Charges

      PGA golfer Tripp Isenhour is getting attention for something other than his golf game today. Police charged Isenhour with cruelty to animals and the killing of a migratory bird, the AP reports. The 17-year pro—who has two wins on the minor-league equivalent Nationwide Tour—is alleged to have deliberately killed a hawk with a golf shot while taping a TV show in December.   More »

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      golf  • animal cruelty  • PGA Tour  • hawk

    • 'Puppy Kill' Video Triggers Probe

      newser  |  Marine Corps Times  |  Mar 4, 08 8:46 AM CST

      'Puppy Kill' Video Triggers Probe

      Military officials are investigating a video posted on YouTube that appears to show a Marine hurling a puppy off a cliff, the Marine Corps Time s reports. The video shows a Marine joking with buddies in a rocky landscape before throwing the animal. An official from the Hawaii base where the Marine is thought to be stationed called the video "shocking and deplorable."  More »

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      YouTube  • military  • US Marine Corps  • animal cruelty  • PETA  • viral video  • puppy

  • February 2008

    • Disgraced Meatpacker to Close Doors

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 23, 08 12:34 PM CST

      Disgraced Meatpacker to Close Doors

      The biggest meat recall in history will put a fork in Hallmark/Westland, the meatpacker’s general manager told the Wall Street Journal. “I don’t see any way we could reopen,” he said. The USDA has said the California company could reopen under the right conditions, but demands that it pay for the meat’s destruction and replacement. “If the USDA wants payment back, we’re dead meat. We’re done.” More »

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      animal cruelty  • USDA  • Humane Society  • cows  • beef recall  • Westland/Hallmark Meat Co.

    • USDA Recalls 143M Lbs of Beef

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Feb 17, 08 3:27 PM CST

      USDA Recalls 143M Lbs of Beef

      The USDA today issued its biggest recall ever, recalling 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a slaughterhouse in Southern California that is currently being investigated for animal cruelty. The recall affects meat dating to Feb. 1 that originated in Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. The company distributes beef to major fast-food chains, as well as the federal school lunch program. More »

    • Slaughterhouse Boss Faces Felony Charges

      newser  |  Press-Enterprise  |  Feb 16, 08 8:26 AM CST

      Slaughterhouse Boss Faces Felony Charges

      Prosecutors hit a slaughterhouse manager with what they say are unprecedented felony charges yesterday after a video released last month showed abusive methods being used to push ailing cattle into a slaughter box, the Press-Enterprise reports. Daniel Ugarte Navarro, 49, faces over 8 years in prison if convicted of five felony counts of animal cruelty and three misdemeanor counts of illegal movement of a non-ambulatory animal. More »

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      California  • animal cruelty  • food contamination  • cows  • Humane Society  • beef  • Chino slaughterhouse

    • Marichal, Mets' Martinez Shown at Cockfight

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Feb 7, 08 3:46 PM CST

      Marichal, Mets' Martinez Shown at Cockfight

      Video of Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez and Hall of Famer Juan Marichal at a cockfight in their native Dominican Republic—where the practice is legal—was briefly available on YouTube today, the New York Post reports. The pair is seen enjoying themselves and even throwing the chickens into the ring as honorary soltadores . Martinez's rooster appears to die on the tape. More »

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      baseball  • New York Mets  • animal cruelty  • Dominican Republic  • Baseball Hall of Fame  • cockfighting

  • January 2008

    • Video Shows Cattle Abuse at California Feedlot

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jan 30, 08 6:14 PM CST

      Video Shows Cattle Abuse at California Feedlot

      Cows are zapped with electricity, picked up with forklifts, and subjected to high-pressure jets of water up their noses in a video taken at a California slaughterhouse by an undercover investigator from the US Humane Society, the Washington Post reports. The video shows cattle workers using extreme, and illegal, measures to try to get sick or slow cows moving. More »

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      animal cruelty  • cattle  • slaughterhouses

    • Housing Crisis Hard on Pets, Too

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Jan 22, 08 8:27 PM CST

      Housing Crisis Hard on Pets, Too

      America's pets are feeling the subprime fallout these days as more homeowners are foreclosing and abandoning them, the Chicago Tribune reports. A recent spate of deserted animals—including 24 horses on an Oklahoma farm, and 21 Great Danes left to die in Pennsylvania—inspired the national Humane Society to issue a plea: If you can't afford to keep pets, at least take them to a shelter. More »

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      subprime mortgages  • housing crisis  • animal cruelty

    • UK Veal Now Cool, Not Cruel

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Jan 20, 08 2:21 PM CST

      UK Veal Now Cool, Not Cruel

      Veal is the new guilt-free meat in Britain, and everyone from top chefs to farmers and animal activists is pushing consumers to eat up . Anti-cruelty groups largely eliminated veal from the UK diet in the '90s, and as a result, dairy farmers slaughter half a million male calves and export the rest to veal farms. But with new standards in place, eating British-raised veal has become the solution to, not cause of, cruelty. More »

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      Great Britain  • agriculture  • farmer  • animal cruelty  • cattle  • dairy  • Tesco  • veal

    • Harder Times Make for Hungry Horses

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jan 8, 08 12:42 PM CST

      Harder Times Make for Hungry Horses

      When the sun was shining on the economy, millions of Americans tried to make hay by buying horses and moving into backyard breeding. As things slow down, the animals are getting harder to sell and pricier to feed, making horse neglect and abandonment a big problem, the Wall Street Journal reports. Rescue centers are struggling to deal with starving horses. More »

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      US economy  • animal cruelty  • horse  • slaughterhouses  • horse neglect  • animal rescue groups  • abandonment

  • December 2007

    • Thugs Skin Tiger in China Zoo

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Dec 23, 07 7:45 AM CST

      Thugs Skin Tiger in China Zoo

      Officials are searching for the thugs who skinned and beheaded a rare Siberian tiger at a zoo in central China. The female carcass—missing its head, legs and skin—was found outside its pen in Yichang City in Hubei province. Four homemade anesthetic rifles lay nearby. "It is highly possible that the killers anesthetized the tiger, opened the cage and then dragged the animal out and butchered it," said one official. More »

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      China  • zoo  • animal cruelty  • wildlife  • tigers  • World Wildlife Fund  • Siberian tigers

    • Scrutiny Increases on Puppy Mills

      newser  |  MSNBC  |  Dec 6, 07 9:09 PM CST

      Scrutiny Increases on Puppy Mills

      Local and state officials are starting to crack down on puppy mills—operations that breed dogs for profit, often under crowded, inhumane conditions. At the farms, the puppies are kept in relatively good shape—because they're what brings the money—but the breeding adults are kept in tiny cages and are often diseased and uncared for, MSNBC reports. More »

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      animal cruelty  • puppy mills  • puppies

  • September 2007

    • Georgia Man Fed Live Kittens to His Dog: Cops

      newser  |  Atlanta Journal-Constitution  |  Sep 21, 07 4:40 AM CDT

      Georgia Man Fed Live Kittens to His Dog: Cops

      A 21-year-old Georgia man has been charged with aggravated animal cruelty for allegedly trapping and injuring kittens before feeding them, alive, to his pet pit bull, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A search of his home turned up two pounds of marijuana, firearms and the mangled bodies of two missing kittens, according to police. More »

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      animal cruelty  • pit bull

    • Vick's Talking Points end Up on Ebay

      newser  |  TMZ  |  Sep 4, 07 7:11 PM CDT

      Vick's Talking Points end Up on Ebay

      Vick’s next note to self may be “apologize to the dogs next time.” TMZ readers have already seen his private notes from his apology last week and can even bid to own them, because the Humane Society has posted them on ebay. Vick’s list of regrets ends with “dogs have suffered,” but he forgot to extend that apology when facing the glare of the press.  More »

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      eBay  • Michael Vick  • animal cruelty  • dogfighting  • apology  • Humane Society

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