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All Hail the Supreme Master! (Of Anti-Meat Propaganda)

What do you get when you combine two obnoxious animal rights groups (the ridiculously misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the phony-baloney Humane Society of the United…
PostedNovember 4, 2009 at12:00 am

Cracking the Shell of Animal Rights Activism

It’s flu season, and as The New York Times reports today, President Obama has declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a national emergency while supplies of H1N1 flu vaccines are…
PostedOctober 26, 2009 at12:00 am

‘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…
PostedOctober 23, 2009 at12:00 am

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…
PostedOctober 22, 2009 at12:00 am

PETA Stunts Are Still Trashy

Targeting elementary school children with a bloody elephant character? That was so last week. This week, PETA put up a billboard in the United Kingdom featuring a child…
PostedOctober 14, 2009 at12:00 am

The Locavore’s New Clothes?

Author James McWilliams has stirred the pot with his new book Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. In it, he takes…
PostedSeptember 29, 2009 at12:00 am

HSUS Targets Ohio in Political Cockfight

 The animal-rights industry is pushing back against Issue 2, a ballot initiative in Ohio that would create a board to develop statewide standards for livestock care. But even if…
PostedSeptember 22, 2009 at12:00 am

One Step Closer to a PETA White House

Yesterday, the Senate voted 63-35 to invoke cloture on the nomination of animal rights activist Cass Sunstein to be the nation’s new “regulatory czar,” which means the Senate can…
PostedSeptember 10, 2009 at12:00 am

“Nudging” America to Give Up Meat

The number of animals and plants protected by the federal Endangered Species Act is about to increase dramatically. For Cass Sunstein, radical animal-rights activist and nominee for…
PostedSeptember 3, 2009 at12:00 am

Vegan Activists Have Egg On Their Face

Vegan activist group Mercy for Animals (MFA) released a video yesterday (viewer discretion advised) showing a behind-the-scenes look at an egg hatchery in Iowa. Among other things, the video…
PostedSeptember 2, 2009 at12:00 am