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Farm animal-rights group pays people to watch gruesome slaughter video

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 12:22pm

Members of the nonprofit Farm Animal Rights Movement are sponsoring an unusual national campaign.

In it, the Maryland-based group is offering people $1 to watch a short video that shows gruesome scenes of slaughter and abuse of chickens, pigs and cows at unidentified farming operations.

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Banned animal-rights activist chains herself to campus library

David Jesse Detroit Free Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 4:49pm

DETROIT -- Animal rights activist Camille Marino was arrested Wednesday after chaining herself to Wayne State University's undergraduate library in protest of her ban from campus.

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A local group of animal rights activists is calling for a boycott of Lagoon until the amusement park stops what the group calls the "imprisonment of animals."

Activists call for boycott of Lagoon for 'imprisonment of animals'

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 4:50pm

FARMINGTON -- A local group of animal rights activists is calling for a boycott of Lagoon until the amusement park stops what the group calls the "imprisonment of animals."

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Groups calling on Utah governor to veto bills

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 8:51am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Gov. Gary Herbert is receiving thousands of emails calling for the veto of bills passed by lawmakers during the Legislature's final days.

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Groups call for veto of Utah farm filming ban

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 4:32pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Gov. Gary Herbert is being urged to veto a bill prohibiting filming on farms, ranches and dairies.

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Debate intensifies over livestock undercover filming

David Pitt The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 10:36am

DES MOINES, Iowa — Animal welfare groups reacted with outrage Wednesday after the Iowa Legislature made the state the first to approve a bill making it a crime to surreptitiously get into a farming operation to record video of animal abuse.

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Filming on farms banned by proposed Utah law

Josh Loftin The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, February 26, 2012 - 9:29am

SALT LAKE CITY — Filming on farms, ranches and dairies could be prohibited in Utah despite concerns that animal abuse will go unreported.

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Secondhand smoke is harming pets

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 11:33pm

CLEARFIELD — If Spot could speak, he might tell his owners — if they smoked — that all that secondhand smoke is “ruff” on the both of them.

A Davis County Health Department educator and a nationally recognized Davis County veterinarian, after reviewing information from recent veterinary studies, contend secondhand smoke has serious effects on pets in the household.

They hope that educating pet owners who smoke about the dangers of secondhand smoke and the risk it poses to their pets will encourage them to quit smoking.

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Animal rights' billboard near Butterball office urges people to go vegetarian

Sarah Nagem News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 2:06pm

GARNER, N.C. -- An animal rights group is urging travelers on U.S. 70 to go vegetarian this Thanksgiving with a billboard in Garner, home to turkey giant Butterball.

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Advocates seek stop to Idaho, Montana wolf hunts

Matthew Brown, Noaki Schwartz The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 4:38pm

PASADENA, Calif. -- Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking an injunction to stop gray wolf hunts already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped its authority in stripping federal protections from the canines.

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FILE - This undated file image provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf resting in tall grass. Wildlife advocates on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 asked for an emergency injunction to stop state-sponsored gray wolf hunts that have claimed at least 71 of the animals in the Northern Rockies since late August. (AP Photo/US Fish & Wildlife, File)

Emergency halt to Idaho wolf hunts sought

Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 5:10pm

Bow-and-arrow hunters already have shot 17 of Montana's once-threatened wolf population since a controversial wolf hunt started at the beginning of September, while 60 wolves have been killed in neighboring Idaho.

Now, big game rifle-hunting season is about to start, bringing thousands of hunters into the mountains at a time when early snowfall will make wolves much easier to spot and chase. Conservation groups went to court Monday seeking an emergency injunction to block the hunts until a federal appeals court can decide whether they're legal to begin with.

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Animal rights arsonist gets 7 years in prison

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 5:43pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- An animal rights activist who pleaded guilty to federal arson charges in connection with two Utah fires has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.

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(MANU FERNANDEZ/The Associated Press) Spanish bullfighter Jose Tomas waves to the crowd after performing at the Monumental bullring in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. Spain’s powerful northeastern region of Catalonia bids farewell Sunday to the country’s emblematic tradition of bullfighting with a final bash at the Barcelona bullring.

Spain’s Catalonia bids farewell to bullfighting

Iain Sullivan The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:07pm

BARCELONA, Spain — Matadors drove the killing sword into bulls for the last time Sunday in Spain’s powerful northeastern region of Catalonia in an emotive farewell fight before a polemical regional ban on the country’s emblematic tradition takes effect.

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Python bitten by Sacramento man is on mend, needs new home

Whitney Mountain The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Saturday, September 3, 2011 - 9:40pm

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A pet python that underwent surgery after being bitten by a Sacramento, Calif., man is “looking a ton better,” Sacramento animal control officials said Saturday.

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Ad says lab monkeys being mistreated

Peter Hecht, The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 10:43am

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An animal rights group has produced a television commercial charging University of California, Davis and three other University of California campuses of mistreating monkeys during laboratory research.

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