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animal cruelty stories: 72 news summaries

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OPINION

Farm Boy Mulls What's Good for Goose, Gander

As California considers cage ban, Kristof looks at animal rights

Jul 31, 08 9:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Californians go to the polls in November with a high-profile ballot initiative to decide: whether to ban factory farms from raising livestock in small cages. For Nicholas D. Kristof, it's an apt moment to consider our transforming attitudes toward animal welfare. The Oregon farm boy turned New York Times columnist... More »

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meat • animal cruelty • animal rights • cage free • farm

USMC Tosses Puppy-Throwing Marine

Also sanctions partner in crime in infamous YouTube video

Jun 12, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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YouTube • animal cruelty • puppy • Marine • David Motari

 In Heroin Video,
 Angie Talks of Killing Pets 

'99 clip shot at NYC drug hangout is blast from supermom's sordid past

May 19, 08 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Angelina Jolie • drugs • animal cruelty • video

Rapper DMX Arrested on Animal-Cruelty, Drug Charges

Cops take pit bull pups, find cocaine, marijuana, guns at Arizona pad

May 9, 08 5:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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 • animal cruelty • marijuana • hip-hop • DMX • rapper • rap music • pit bull • police raids

opinion

 Man Eats Man's Best Friend 

Slate's Ted Kerasote protests animal cruelty in China

Mar 24, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

 Elephant Bubble Plans Popped 

Outcry bursts science center's plans to surround elephant with soap bubble

Mar 15, 08 6:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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science • art • animal cruelty • animal rights • elephant

Meat Company Chief Admits Sick Cows Were Slaughtered

He backtracks after watching second video

Mar 12, 08 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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animal cruelty • cows • USDA • Humane Society • House Energy and Commerce Committee • beef recall • Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. • beef industry

Pro Golfer
Kills Hawk, Faces Charges

Isenhour could earn
jail time for stunt
at TV show taping

Mar 6, 08 9:53 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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golf • animal cruelty • PGA Tour • Tripp Isenhour • hawk

'Puppy Kill' Video Triggers Probe

Military investigating video showing puppy hurled from cliff

Mar 4, 08 8:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Military officials are investigating a video posted on YouTube that appears to show a Marine hurling a puppy off a cliff, the Marine Corps Times 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... More »

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

Disgraced Meatpacker to Close Doors

 Hallmark/Westland sees no hope
of recovery after biggest recall ever

Feb 23, 08 12:34 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

USDA Recalls 143M Lbs of Beef

SoCal slaughterhouse involved under investigation for animal cruelty

Feb 17, 08 3:27 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Southern California • animal cruelty • USDA • beef recall • Edward Schafer • federal school lunch program • Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. • slaughterhouse

Slaughterhouse Boss Faces Felony Charges

Cruelty charges follow video of Calif. meat packers abusing cattle

Feb 16, 08 8:26 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Marichal, Mets' Martinez Shown at Cockfight

Pitchers were honorary starters of event in Dominican Republic

Feb 7, 08 3:46 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Video Shows Cattle Abuse
at California Feedlot

Electric shock, other illegal methods, used on sick cows

Jan 30, 08 6:14 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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cattle • animal cruelty • slaughterhouse

Housing Crisis Hard on Pets, Too

More left behind, dropped in shelters, after collapse

Jan 22, 08 8:27 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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subprime mortgages • animal cruelty • housing crisis

UK Veal Now Cool, Not Cruel

New farming standards make calf meat a newly ethical food

Jan 20, 08 2:21 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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agriculture • cattle • veal • animal cruelty • dairy • farmer • Britain • rose veal • Tesco • British veal • veal farms

Harder Times Make for
Hungry Horses

Collapse in equine market leads to rise
in neglect of animals

Jan 8, 08 12:42 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Thugs Skin Tiger in China Zoo

Carcass of beheaded female discovered outside cage

Dec 23, 07 7:45 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Scrutiny Increases on Puppy Mills

Breeding facilities range from legal-but-distasteful to downright abusive

Dec 6, 07 9:09 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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animal cruelty • puppy • puppy mills

Georgia Man Fed Live Kittens to His Dog: Cops

Photo of dog with victim in mouth found on owner's cellphone

Sep 21, 07 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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animal cruelty • Tye Hilmo • pit bull

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