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10/30/09 Quote of the Week
Last night in Los Angeles, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) president Wayne Pacelle showed why he’s been able to turn a group that sounds as if it’s all about protecting puppies and kittens...
10/23/09 ‘PETA Tötet Tiere,’ and Other Useful German Phrases
When we translated our wildly popular “PETA Kills Animals” website into German, French, Italian, and Russian, we thought maybe—just maybe—a handful of consumers in a few of PETA’s biggest expansion markets might learn a bit...
10/22/09 Meet the Animal Rights Movement’s Rich Aunt
The deceptively named “Cancer Project” animal-rights group is at it again. This time its target isn’t hot dog makers, but grilled-chicken servers. The group, a branch of the PETA-linked Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM),...
8/6/09 Death Threat Down Under, Courtesy of PETA
When we told you yesterday about a disturbing animal-rights attack on a pharmaceutical CEO, we closed by noting that  the Animal Liberation Front and other violent misanthropes have “mainstream charitable supporters” in the animal rights...
8/5/09 A Burning Desire for Animals
It’s been one year since animal-rights terrorists followed a UC-Santa Cruz researcher home and set fire to his house – with his family asleep inside. The perpetrators have not yet been caught. As the Telegraph...
6/4/09 Save the Lab Rats! (Kill the Humans?)
According to the FBI, terrorism in the name of animal rights is on the rise. Whether it’s the firebombing of a UC Santa Cruz researcher’s home or sending suspicious packages to a laboratory in Britain,...
12/11/08 HSUS? Fundraising For a Terror Group? Believe It.
If you subscribe to The New York Times, take a peek at our ad on page A13 today. We’ve uncovered some serious stuff. On Saturday, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) Senior Vice President...
11/17/08 Quote of the Week
We usually don't weigh in on the animal-rights war over fur and fashion -- and it's only Monday -- but this is too good not to make our Quote of the Week. Following a Paris...
10/7/08 Animal Rights Update: SHAC Is Back
This week a British court is hearing astonishing testimony about an international conspiracy aimed at shutting down an animal research lab. The perps: five people who sent hoax bombs and sanitary towels allegedly laced with...
8/18/08 Violence For Animals? It’s Only Natural.
 A host of experts from all walks of life have weighed in about the recent animal-rights firebombing of a Santa Cruz, California biomedical researcher’s home (with his children inside). Yesterday, in the scientist’s hometown Santa...
8/6/08 Taking Action For Animals?
On Saturday, Americans saw the dark side of the animal rights movement when unknown activists firebombed two University of California Santa Cruz biomedical researchers. The local community has since rallied around the University and its...
8/4/08 California Animal Rights Lunatics Make Their Point With Firebombs
When People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Vice President Bruce Freidrich famously told a convention of animal rights activists that “blowing stuff up and smashing windows [is] a great way to bring about...
7/29/08 Anti-Biotech 'Crop Crushing' Is The New Book-Burning
It’s been a scorching hot summer in the debate over genetically modified (GM) crops. As we reported last month, anti-technology activists have been in a collective hissy fit since an overwhelming tide of scientists and...
6/20/08 The Animal Research War
Our bookshelves overflow with volumes about obesity, animal welfare, crop biotechnology, seafood politics, and the latest veal saltimbocca recipes. But every once in a while, a title comes along whose importance warrants a shout from...
11/20/07 The PETA Infomercial
If you opted for Monday Night Football over last night’s HBO broadcast of I Am An Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA, we don’t blame you. A pandering infomercial for animal-rights lunacy isn’t...
10/26/07 Anti-Biotech, Techno-Illiterate
The late Dr. Carl Sagan wrote in 1989 that “we live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” Looking at today’s organized opposition...
10/3/07 PETA Gets Schooled
The animal rights zealots at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are engaging in some very public back-patting after wrapping up a day-long “cruelty to animals” seminar with disgraced NFL quarterback Michael Vick....
9/19/07 Lone Star Vegan Vigilante Behind Bars
Strange things happen when a restaurant dares to serve foie gras in a hotbed of animal-liberation lunatics. And sometimes those strange things are felonies. Last weekend police in Austin, Texas arrested Josh Rosenberg, the self-styled...
7/6/07 Sometimes ‘M.D.’ Stands For 'Medical Dodo'
      Last week in Dublin, the Irish Medical Journal published a scathing condemnation of genetically modified (GM) food written by the authoritatively named Irish Doctors Environmental Association. The group’s director, Dr. Elizabeth Cullen, claimed that...
11/17/06 Quotes Of The Week
Echoing our observation from earlier in the week, Chicago Daily Herald columnist Mike Jackson is wondering aloud why the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) was so adamantly opposed to a new federal law...
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Activist Cash

Earth First!
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Bomb-throwers have a funny way of making even the most radical spokespersons seem reasonable, and one of Earth First!'s main goals is to make green groups like the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth appear mainstream by comparison. read more here »

SHAC
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Baseball-bat assaults, arsons, car bombs, death threats – the level of criminality that these activists engage in astonishes some law-enforcement veterans who thought they’d “seen it all.” read more here »


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