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Debate intensifies over livestock undercover filming

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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PETA sues Utah officers over leaflet distribution

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 3:56pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Virginia-based animal rights group is suing two Utah transit police officers for trying to block the distribution of leaflets about circus animal abuse.

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Nicholas Genovese's research into meat is funded by an animal-rights group. His far-reaching goal is to grow muscle meat separate from the animal -- in a lab and then factories. (Scott Canon/Kansas City Star/MCT)

Petrimeat? Scientist trying to create meat in a dish

Scott Canon Kansas City Star

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 10:24am

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Nicholas Genovese is a lab-coated collection of incongruities.

He's being bankrolled by an animal rights group to make meat.

The molecular biologist is working in a lab at a land-grant university that pulls in millions in grants for its research on livestock. Yet the money backing him pushes the desire to end the use of animals as food.

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Animal rights groups 'outraged' at bill

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Friday, January 21, 2011 - 12:15am

CLEARFIELD -- Alley Cat Allies, a national advocacy organization, is taking action against a Top of Utah legislator and his proposed bill regarding feral cats.

Based in Bethesda, Md., Alley Cats Allies, which claims to be dedicated to the protection and humane treatment of cats, is just one of the animal-rights organizations that are opposed to Utah House Bill 210. The organization has started an action center against the proposed bill by Rep. Curt Oda, R-Clearfield, which would change the state's animal cruelty law to allow the killing of feral animals, pests and rodents.

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PETA, Davis County make settlement

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 9:34am

FARMINGTON — The Davis County Commission has approved a $17,732 settlement with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for a year-old lawsuit centering around dogs and cats the county at one time supplied to the University of Utah for lab research.

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