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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: animal cruelty

animal cruelty stories: 72 news summaries

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(Newser) - It's time for Canada to end the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of baby seals, argues Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post. While the US and even bear-hunting Vladimir Putin have banned the practice, Canadians keep up the "gruesome drill" of massacring baby seals for their pelts. While... More »

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Canada • Vladimir Putin • animal cruelty • PETA • Kathleen Parker • sealing

(Newser) - McDonald's will soon be faced with an epic decision: Which comes first, the cage-free chicken or the profit margin? The Humane Society plans to press the fast-food behemoth at a shareholder meeting in May to use cage-free eggs, but the fast food giant’s response is anything but certain,... More »

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McDonald's • animal cruelty • eggs • Humane Society • cage free • chicken

Alaska and Florida Move to Ban Bestiality

Shocking cases
spur legislators
to protect Fido

Mar 21, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - When a man in Klawock, Alaska, was spotted luring a Labrador into the woods, where he allegedly tied it to a tree and had sex with it, the authorities didn’t have much to charge him with. The DA settled on criminal mischief and theft. But that case, and others... More »

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Florida • Alaska • animal cruelty • bestiality

(Newser) - The recent recovery of a statue of KFC’s Col. Sanders from a Japanese river is said to have ended a curse on a baseball team there. Which gave the company a clever idea: offer the effigy to the notably hexed Chicago Cubs, Deadspin reports. PETA strenuously objects. “If... More »

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Chicago Cubs • animal cruelty • curse • PETA • statue • KFC • baseball • Osaka, Japan • Kentucky Fried Chicken • Colonel Sanders

(Newser) - A documentary on animal cruelty at an Ohio hog farm has the pork industry considering how to better represent its “commitment to animal care,” Reuters reports. The footage in Death on a Factory Farm, taken secretly, led to animal-cruelty prosecutions, though the charged workers were acquitted. HBO airs... More »

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HBO • Ohio • animal cruelty • pig • pork • documentary film • prosecutions • National Pork Board • factory farm

(Newser) - A Nebraska man faces a misdemeanor charge—which could become a felony—for stuffing his cat into a homemade bong and smoking marijuana through the contraption, the AP reports. The man, who was also charged with possession, said the cat was hyper and he was trying to “mellow” her... More »

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bongs • Nebraska • animal cruelty • marijuana • cat • drug paraphernalia • domestic disturbance • Bill Maher Grid

Circus Elephant Abuse Case Hits Court

Animal rights groups allege circus group engages in jumbo-sized cruelty

Feb 5, 09 3:35 AM CST
(Newser) - The nation's circus elephants finally have their day in court, reports the Washington Post. Animal rights groups who accuse circuses of mistreating their elephants have battled for eight years to bring a case against Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. In opening arguments in Washington DC district court yesterday,... More »

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animal cruelty • lawsuit • elephant • circus • animal • ASPCA

 Cockfighting Raid 
 Nabs 73 in NC 

One rooster splattered blood on search warrant

Feb 3, 09 12:39 PM CST
(Newser) - North Carolina police arrested 73 people in an unexpectedly huge cockfighting raid over the weekend, crashing a barbaric $40,000 tournament in which a combatant rooster bloodied the search warrant, the AP reports. “I had no idea it would be this large,” the sheriff said. “I've raided... More »

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North Carolina • animal cruelty • arrest • cockfighting

 Kid Matador 
 Kills Record 
 6 Bulls 

Bloody spectacle gets last-minute go-ahead despite controversy

Jan 25, 09 7:30 AM CST
(Newser) - An 11-year-old Mexican bullfighter has broken a world record by killing six young bulls in a single bloody spectacle, reports the BBC. "I'm happy to have achieved this great victory," boasted the boy as he left the ring in Merida yesterday. The controversial bullfight exhibition won a last-minute... More »

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Mexico • children • animal cruelty • bullfighting • matador • Child Protective Services • boy

 Monkey See, Monkey Beat 

Abused monkeys go ape after beating from trainer

Dec 18, 08 3:45 AM CST
(Newser) - A Chinese animal trainer found his trio of performing monkeys to be quick learners when he tried to give one a public beating, the Daily Mail reports. One of the bicycle-riding monkeys twisted the man's ear while another sank its teeth into his head. A third picked up the man's... More »

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China • animal cruelty • monkey • animal attack

(Newser) - A British vegetarian group is calling on Ikea to stop selling reindeer salami in its in-store cafes, citing cruel hunting practices, the Independent reports. In Sweden, reindeer are herded by snowmobile and helicopter then shipped hundreds of miles to slaughterhouses, which the group says causes “considerable physical and... More »

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food • England • animal cruelty • Ikea • Sweden • vegetarianism • Britain • salami • reindeer

PETA Video Shows W.Va. Workers Abusing Turkeys

Animal-rights org files criminal complaint; W.Va. company vows to punish workers

Nov 19, 08 2:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Just ahead of Thanksgiving, workers at a West Virginia farm are shown stomping turkeys and twisting their necks to kill them in an undercover video released by PETA, AP reports. The employee who filmed the stomach-turning scenes says the birds are kept in overcrowded barns and that employees brag about... More »

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farms • animal cruelty • animal rights • PETA • West Virginia • Thanksgiving • poultry • Aviagen • Pilgrim's Pride

OPINION




 Vote 
 Greyhound 
 for First 
 Pooch 

Loyal, cuddly and in need of a political push

Nov 8, 08 3:51 PM CST
(Newser) - So the Obamas are looking for a hypoallergenic rescue dog? Well, Jezebel has just the breed for them: Greyhound. Today known mostly as racing dogs, Greyhounds have a proud history. They were protected by law in the Middle Ages, they appear in Chaucer, Shakespeare and the Simpsons, and are the... More »

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pets • Barack Obama • animal cruelty • dog • President Obama • Greyhound • Greyhound racing

(Newser) - Neighbors are accusing a Los Angeles County assistant fire chief of beating their puppy so badly that she had to be put down, KTLA reports. Glynn Johnson attacked the dog for no reason, they say, pummeling it with a rock and trying to break its jaws. Johnson told superiors he... More »

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animal cruelty • puppy • dog

Animal Rights Lover Goes for the Throat

But Humane Society prez pushes a savvy, mainstream message

Oct 26, 08 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Humane Society has turned into an aggressive political player with a mainstream message, the New York Times reports. The group's head, Wayne Pacelle, just shut down a $100 million slaughterhouse in Chino, Calif., and is pushing for a ballot measure that would require a certain amount of room for... More »

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meat • animal cruelty • eggs • animal rights • Humane Society • poultry • meat and poultry

Australian Boy Fed Zoo Animals to Crocodile

Rare turtle, lizards among 13 reptiles killed by 7-year-old

Oct 3, 08 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 7-year-old boy snuck into an Australian zoo on Wednesday and killed 13 animals, the BBC reports. The child jumped a fence and evaded security cameras to gain access to the Alice Springs Reptile Center, where he bashed three lizards with rocks and fed 10 other animals, some of them... More »

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Australia • animal cruelty • zoo • crocodile • reptiles • juvenile crime

Cat Killing Was Self-Defense: Ex-Ballplayer

Mets prospect says he beat ex's tabby to death for trying to bite him

Sep 18, 08 12:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joseph Petcka doesn’t deny he beat his girlfriend’s cat to death, but he says it was self-defense, the New York Daily News reports. The ex-Mets prospect and bit-part actor (one episode of Sex and the City) says the 7-pound tabby tried to bite him. Prosecutors say Petcka screamed,... More »

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New York Mets • animal cruelty • baseball • cat

 Pigs Savaged 
 in PETA Farm Video 

Undercover film shows workers beating sows, slamming piglets to ground

Sep 17, 08 7:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Undercover investigators for the anti-cruelty organization PETA have filmed shocking cruelty to pigs at an Iowa farm, AP reports. Pigs are seen being beaten with metal rods while a supervisor brags of jamming rods in sows' anuses. Unhealthy piglets are slammed against the floor and left to die writhing in... More »

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Iowa • livestock • animal cruelty • PETA • pig • farm • Hormel Foods Corp. • animal

 Aussies Hunt 
 'Roo Beater on Tape 

Young man beats kanga on camera while friend laughs

Sep 12, 08 6:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Animal rights activists in Australia are on the hunt for a young man who beat a kangaroo unconscious on camera while an onlooker laughed, the AP reports. The assault is documented in a grainy 15-second video clip that has been yanked from the porn site where it was originally posted.... More »

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Australia • animal cruelty • kangaroo

(AP) - The longtime owner of a West Virginia kennel has surrendered her approximately 1,000 dogs to humane officials amid allegations that the animals were never let out of their cages and were rarely, if ever, touched by a human being. Authorities raided the facility over the weekend. To avoid arrest,... More »

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animal cruelty • dog • animal shelters

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