News on Animal Rights

Research monkey deaths prompt calls for crackdown

2010-03-18T01:00:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Deaths of research monkeys prompt calls for government crackdown</div><div><p>Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized.</p><p>At a lab run by the same company, a monkey died last year after it was sent ...

Lawmakers probe lax enforcement of animal rules

2010-03-12T00:30:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Lawmakers, GAO probe lax enforcement of animal welfare rules following slaughterhouse abuse</div><div><p>The knives at the slaughterhouse weren't properly sanitized, a government investigator said, and employees at the meatpacking plant didn't know how to test the carcasses of days-old veal calves for a dangerous pathogen. Food safety conditions were so poor at the Vermont processing facility that it should ...

PETA offers anti-meat trash cans for Colo. parks

2010-03-11T08:30:33Z

<div id="subtitle">PETA offers trash cans for Colo. Springs parks, but only with anti-meat lettuce bikini motif</div><div><p>The animal rights group PETA is offering to help the cash-strapped city of Colorado Springs by paying to put trash cans back in parks — on one condition. The cans have to carry an anti-meat slogan an...

NY horse breeder convicted of animal cruelty

2010-03-10T12:01:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Thoroughbred breeder Ernie Paragallo convicted of mistreating horses on his upstate NY farm</div><div><p>Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm.</p><p>A ju...

Barker donates $2.5 million to create PETA offices

2010-03-10T04:00:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Bob Barker donates $2.5 million to turn existing building into PETA's Los Angeles headquarters</div><div><p>Bob Barker has donated $2.5 million to help the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals open a new location in Los Angeles.</p><p>The retired game show host and spay and neuter champion w...

Britain could force owners to microchip their dogs

2010-03-09T07:15:18Z

<div id="subtitle">A chip for spot: British dog owners could be forced to microchip and insure their pets</div><div><p>British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country's dangerous canines.</p><p>Postmen are delighted, but civil libertarians grumble that Britain's sprawling surveillance state now wants to track the nation's est...

Swiss voters reject giving abused animals a lawyer

2010-03-07T10:15:05Z

<div id="subtitle">Swiss voters reject proposal to appoint special lawyers for abused animals</div><div><p>The result was emphatic: Swiss voters don't think abused animals need to have their own lawyers.</p><p>It's a proposal that would never even come near a referendum in other countries, but the measure's defeat Sunday disappointed animal rights advocates, who say Switzerland's elaborate animal welfare la...

Swiss to vote on lawyers for abused animals

2010-03-05T05:16:42Z

<div><p>In a country that already outlaws flushing goldfish down the toilet and protects "social" pets' need for company, Switzerland will vote Sunday on whether abused animals deserve lawyers.</p><p>Legal representation in cases involving mistreated animals has been compulsory since 1992 in the Zurich canton. But pet politics could be taken to a new level if voters extend th...

Castrate Knut the Polar bear: animal rights group

2010-03-03T10:15:20Z

<div><p>BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - An animal rights group in Germany came under fire Wednesday for saying that Berlin's celebrity polar bear Knut should be castrated because he is related to his love interest Giovanna.</p><p>The PETA animal rights group warned t...

NJ shelter worker charged with killing 2 cats

2010-03-02T14:33:36Z

<div id="subtitle">NJ shelter worker accused of killing 2 cats, strangling 1, throwing other to ground head first</div><div><p>An attendant at a central New Jersey animal shelter has been accused of killing two cats by strangling one and throwing the other to the ground head first.</p><p>Eatontown police say they arrested the 31-year-old man Monday after other...

'Castrate' polar bear Knut: rights group

2010-03-02T11:17:12Z

<div><p>An animal rights group has called for Knut the polar bear, who shot to global stardom as a cub in 2007, to be castrated to avoid incest with his cousin.</p><p>The three-year-old darling of Berlin Zoo was given a female companion, Giovanna, last year but the German chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) warned against their mating.</p><p>Th...

Trainer dies in SeaWorld killer whale 'attack'

2010-02-25T13:16:35Z

<div><p>A killer whale killed a 40-year-old female trainer in an apparent attack witnessed by horrified onlookers at Florida's SeaWorld entertainment park, police and the park's manager said.</p><p>Authorities at first said the woman died after apparently falling into the whale's tank, but an eyewitness claimed the animal leapt out of the water to grab her in its mouth....

Killer whale drowns trainer in SeaWorld

2010-02-25T03:15:35Z

<div><p>A five-tonne killer whale drowned its trainer on Wednesday in front of horrified onlookers at Florida's SeaWorld entertainment park, police and the park's manager said.</p><p>Witnesses said the whale -- involved in two other human fatalities in the past -- leapt out of its tank to grab the 40-year-old trainer during a noontime show, then dragged her into the wat...

Legal eagles? Swiss to vote on lawyers for animals

2010-02-22T08:48:30Z

<div id="subtitle">Abused animals could get right to lawyer in Swiss proposal up for vote</div><div><p>Lawyer Antoine F. Goetschel feels uncomfortable talking about one of his recent clients. And it isn't just because he lost the case.</p><p>"Fish don't get much sympathy," he explains.</p><p>That's doubly true for the un...

OLY FIG Weir Threats

2010-02-15T14:31:03Z

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2010 file photo, Johnny Weir competes during the men's free skate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Spokane, Wash. Weir is staying at the Olympic village because he is concerned about his safety after receiving what he considers "very serious threats" from anti-fur ac...

nsal dog fashions

2010-02-13T17:46:33Z

Beth Ostrosky Stern North Shore Animal League's Pre-Westminster Fashion Show held at Hotel Pennsylvania New York City, USA - 12.02.10

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Skater Weir says he's target of anti-fur threats

2010-02-22T09:41:44Z

<div id="subtitle">US figure skater Johnny Weir opts to stay in Olympic village after anti-fur threats</div><div><p>US figure skater Johnny Weir is staying at the Olympic village because he is concerned about his safety after receiving what he considers "very serious threats" from anti-fur activists.</p><p>Weir had talked about staying in a hotel because he di...

'Threats' make Weir stay in Olympic village

2010-02-22T09:41:53Z

<div id="subtitle">Weir chooses security over comfort, opting to stay in Olympic village after anti-fur threats</div><div><p>Johnny Weir is staying at the Olympic village because he was concerned about his safety after receiving what he considers "very serious threats" from anti-fur activists.</p><p>The American had talked about staying in a hotel because he d...

Shelter Dog Show

2010-02-12T21:15:30Z

In this photo released by the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), "Stormy," a resident at the ASPCA animal shelter in New York City is joined by ASPCA Adoptions Representative Colleen Doherty, at the ASPCA's...

Antarctica Whaling

2010-02-12T02:45:44Z

In this photo released by the Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan, an activist, bottom, of anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Steve Irwin holds a chemical launcher, aiming at the Japanese whalin...