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Teenagers Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva had been studying orangutans as part of a project to earn their Girl Scout Bronze Award four years ago. The palm oil goes into numerous baked goods and other “fun” foods, and the orangutans and their kind are now threatened with extinction.
The judge ruled against PETA in its case accusing SeaWorld of holding orcas as slaves in violation of the 13th Amendment. PETA calls it a victory anyway. But a leading animal rights attorney fears the case may have set back the cause of animal rights.
A member of the group Dogs Against Romney strapped a crate to the roof of a car and drove around town. Labeled the “Seamus Express,” the stunt attracted attention from Littleton Police, who pulled the car over.
The fact that a contestant on The Price Is Right won a trip to the infamous Calgary Stampede rodeo has left Bob Barker furious. “They wouldn’t have even considered it when I was there,” Barker said. “I had them take fur coats off the show.
It wasn’t even close. Far and away, the biggest winner of the Super Bowl advertising blitz was the Bud Light commercial. The spot features Weego the rescue dog who, when called (“Here, Weego!”), fetches beer on command. Sure, the dog is cute and plucky and eager to please. But the real feel-good (dare I say intoxicating?) moments come at the very beginning and very end of the ad.
For the rest of the day on September 11, 2001 after the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, whales in the North Atlantic must have been heaving a huge sigh of relief. They could hear properly again.
Greece has jumped ahead of most of the Western world in banning all use of animals in circuses. It’s the first ban of its kind in Europe.
Yesterday, a Federal Court in San Diego held a hearing on a Motion to Dismiss filed by SeaWorld in a case where PETA claimed that SeaWorld was enslaving orcas in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Stung by nationwide outrage on the part of pit bull guardians, McDonalds has pulled the radio ad it’s been airing in the Kansas City area. The supposedly humorous commercial said that eating a Chicken McBite was less risky than petting a stray pit bull.
An ad from Career Builder, prepared for the Super Bowl, received huge attention online. Career Builder is a Chicago company, but Dr. Steve Ross, chimp expert at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, said he couldn’t believe the company would use chimps in TV commercials.
There are many touching, heartwarming stories of “service” dogs who do amazing things to help their disabled people. But one of the most remarkable stories ever was in the New York Times magazine this weekend.
The Hill, Washington D.C.’s main newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress, is seeing a surge in lobbying activity from people in the business of doing experiments on chimpanzees.
We know you’ve been busy this week. Maybe you’re a political hound and were hanging on every chad in the Florida GOP primary (if you were DVR-ing, spoiler alert: Mitt Romney won big). Or perhaps business is your bag and you’re trying to scare up some loose change to get a piece of Facebook’s upcoming IPO. Or maybe you’re a sports junkie and have been reveling in pre-Super Bowl hype.
Three times in just four days this week, major animal abuse industries have been forced into the open to defend themselves on national TV and radio.
In the late 1950s, the surrealism painter Salvador Dali saw one of the canvases by Congo, a chimpanzee, whose artworks had been shown on the British TV show Zoo Time.
Modern treatments for acute illnesses, he told me, boil down to a handful of “pillars of medicine.” But the interesting twist was that these pillars have also evolved in other species. His enthusiasm for his new theory was infectious, and I caught the bug.
An old crabapple stands rooted – She is tense intention, enduring – At the cusp of fall turn-to-winter, – Yellow green leaves fall first – One by one then – In waves of resignation
They all drop, – But the fruit remains – Red glory against the sky – Witness to her heart.
Ads from Subaru feature dogs in cars doing all sorts of things, going to the beach, camping, ski trip.
It’s the Rugged Automated Training System – RATS, the latest Pentagon venture to turn furry animals into bomb detectors.
Obama campaign manager David Axelrod is tweaking Mitt Romney with this photo of First Dog Bo and the caption: How loving owners transport their dogs.