Tag: Animal Rights - Page 2
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Wisconsin Invites Hunters to Kill 1/4 of its Wolves
Up until January of this year, Great Lakes wolves were protected under the Endangered Species Act. But just ten months after being delisted, hunters are being given a chance to bait, trap, and shoot them for sport.
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Limited Edition John Bartlett T-Shirts Help Farm Animals
The vegan fashion designer teams up with Farm Sanctuary of behalf of abused and neglected animals.
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FDA Approved Drug Produced in Genetically Engineered Carrot Cells
Genetically engineered plants will be our next drug factories?
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'Green' Swede Says It's Okay To Eat Meat
Is there a voice of reason in the ongoing vegetarian-vegan-carnivore debate? One Swede gives her reasons for controlled meat eating.
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Gay Penguin Pair Adopt an Egg to Raise as Their Own
"They love each other as if they were male and female, courting each other the same," says one zoo staffer. "But what they want is what they lack: to raise a chick."
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Could "Gatorponics" Revive Defunct Chicken Farms?
Could a combination of alligator farming and hydroponics be the savior of former chicken farmers, or is it a dangerous and cruel distraction?
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Meat Industry Grossly Outspends Animal Rights, Veg Groups
Check this out: Those red dots are the advertising budgets of the big meat producers and meat industry groups, just the advertising budgets; the green dots are the entire budgets of animal welfare groups.
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Tell President Obama You Want an End to Factory Farming!
Last October Farm Sanctuary held the first national Conference to End Factory Farming (TreeHugger was one of the media sponsors). Now they want to put some pressure on the President, via this petition.
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Fertile Soils Need Animal Agriculture: Joel Salatin on Integrated Farming
One of America's best-known sustainable farmers makes the case for enlightened animal agriculture.
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A Refugee Farmer Brings Goat Meat to Kentucky
A Burundian native is pioneering urban goat farming in Louisville. Will it catch on among the locals?
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Mosquitoes Blamed For Captive Killer Whale Deaths
In the open ocean, healthy killer whales live free of any natural predators -- but in captivity, even the smallest of insects pose a lethal threat to these majestic giants.
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The Week in Animal News: Cyborg Lobsters, Painting Parrots and More
A research team has implanted cells into a lobster to use it to produce electricity. A parrot paints pictures of parrots, dead bugs get memorial and more.
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Can Hunting and Eating Iguana Help Florida's Native Wildlife?
In 30 years, an island in Florida went from having zero Iguanas to over 10 thousand. Now one man is fighting back, and the Perennial Plate made lunch from his bounty.
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The Week in Animal News: Life on the Midway Atoll, Glowing Fish and More
Jaymi took some amazing shots on her trip to Midway, including lots of the wildlife there. Genetically modified fish make glowing sushi, rare orangutans could be gone in weeks and more.
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Digitally Printed Cowhide Rug Doesn't Require a Cow
This amazingly detailed cowhide rug is digitally printed. Get the rustic look for to tie a room together without the guilt.
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes Lands Humane Society Award For Animal Rights Awareness
Runner-ups included Rio, War Horse and Dolphin Tale.
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The Week in Animal News: Orphaned Baby Manatee Rescued, Michigan Wolves Near Extinct and More
Possibly the cutest ever baby manatee was rescued in the Amazon after its mother was killed by poachers. Only one female gray wolf is left in the Michigan population, and more.
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Ad Claiming That it's Eco-Friendly to Wear Fur is Banned in UK
An ad by the European Fur Breeders' Association will not be allowed to run again after the advertising watchdog, ASA, ruled it to be misleading.
