Animal Rights Extremism (page 22)

The Bacon Beckoning

A new blog features the interesting conversion story of a self-identified former “militant vegan” who changed his ways and became a full-fledged meat eater, starting a website called “The…
Posted November 12, 2009 at 12:00 am

Vegetarian Book Makes Meatless Arguments

When even a vegetarian calls your anti-meat book a “screed,” you know you’re in trouble. But that’s just what happened in today’s Washington Times review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals.
Posted November 5, 2009 at 12:00 am

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…
Posted November 4, 2009 at 12:00 am

Marley and Meat

 If you follow the animal-rights movement, you might have caught wind of novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s first attempt at polemic in his new book, Eating Animals. In the tradition…
Posted November 3, 2009 at 12:00 am

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…
Posted October 30, 2009 at 12:00 am

“Physicians Committee” Abuses the Law. Again.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a ridiculously misnamed animal rights group, filed a complaint with the USDA yesterday against a Massachusetts hospital that uses pigs in…
Posted October 29, 2009 at 12:00 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…
Posted October 26, 2009 at 12:00 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…
Posted October 23, 2009 at 12:00 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…
Posted October 22, 2009 at 12:00 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…
Posted October 14, 2009 at 12:00 am