Animal Rights

Animal Rights Activists Interrupt Hillary Clinton Rally To Protest Meat Industry

August 5, 2016 Charlotte Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Animal Rights, Hillary Clinton, Protests

By Charlotte Klein for The Huffington Post - A Hillary Clinton rally in Las Vegas was briefly halted Thursday afternoon by a group of animal rights activists who accused the candidate of not sticking to her own platform. The Democratic presidential nominee appeared momentarily shaken by the interruption before at least four Secret Service agents joined her onstage. After a few seconds, Clinton addressed the crowd with a laugh. “Apparently these people are here to protest Trump because Trump and his kids have killed a lot of animals,” she said. “So thank you for making that point.”

Factory Farming Divestment: What You Need To Know

March 5, 2016 Tom Levitt, www.theguardian.com Create! Animal Rights, antibiotics, Corporatism, Divestment, Factory Farming, Food and Agriculture

By Tom Levitt for The Guardian - The fast food chain Subway is latest to join the backlash against antibiotic use in the farm sector. It has launched a new chicken sandwich in the US made with meat from animals raised without antibiotics. The move is a sign of the growing consumer and business interest in the welfare and environmental impact of animals reared for meat, dairy and eggs, with most of the blame directed at intensive, factory-style farms. Hoping to echo the success of the fossil fuel divestment movement (which has seen more than 400 institutions commit to pulling money from coal, oil and gas companies to tackle climate change)...

Winona LaDuke Open Letter To Governor Dayton

September 14, 2015 Winona LaDuke, www.http://www.brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-opinion/3831877-guest-opinion-dear-governor-dayton.com Resist! Animal Rights, Environment, Indigenous People, Mining

By Winona LaDuke in Brainerd Dispatch - Now your fisheries department has managed to crash the Mille Lacs fishery. Let me remind you that the Mille Lacs band did not do that, and has volunteered to forgo tribal harvest for next year. This crash resulted from the folly of your politics and the 2006 decision to increase the limit, despite scientific and tribal expertise which set the limit at 350,000 pounds. Minnesota fishery staff secured a legislative approval for 550,000 pounds. Nice work. The walleye population in 2014 was its lowest in 30 years. And, many of your lakes are dying from agricultural runoff and invasive species. Anishinaabeg people have always lived with the moose and the wolf. You have allowed their destruction by corporate and special interests driven myopic management policies. Let me be clear: In July of 2015, the Center for Biological Diversity and Honor the Earth filed a request to list the Moose as endangered. In just 10 years time, moose numbers in Minnesota have dropped from nearly 9,000 to as few as 3,500. Why?

Federal Appeals Court Bans Bee-Killing Pesticide

September 11, 2015 Earth Justice, www.earthjustice.org Resist! Animal Rights

By Earth Justice - Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected U.S. EPA’s approval of the neonicotinoid insecticide “sulfoxaflor.” The Court concluded that EPA violated federal law when it approved sulfoxaflor without reliable studies regarding the impact that the insecticide would have on honeybee colonies. The Court vacated EPA’s approval, meaning that sulfoxaflor may not be used in the U.S. unless, and until, EPA obtains the necessary information regarding impacts to honeybees and re-approves the insecticide in accordance with law. Earthjustice represented a coalition of commercial beekeeping trade groups, as well as individual commercial beekeepers. The coalition included Pollinator Stewardship Council, National Honeybee Advisory Board, American Honey Producers Association, American Beekeeping Federation and beekeepers Jeff Anderson, Rick Smith, and Brett Adee.

Ending Cruel Extreme Confinement Of Animals

September 2, 2015 Wayne Pacelle, www.alternet.org Resist! Animal Rights

By Wayne Pacelle in Alternet - On August 19, I announced that The HSUS, the Massachusetts SPCA, theAnimal Rescue League of Boston, theASPCA, Zoo New England, and a number of other prominent organizations have launched a ballot initiative in the Bay State to stop extreme confinement of laying hens, breeding sows, and veal calves, and to ensure that any shell eggs or whole, uncooked cuts of pork or veal sold in the state do not come from extreme confinement either. It’s part of our move to end the era of extreme confinement and to advance a vision for agriculture that is more humane and sustainable, with a basic standard being observed that animals raised for food at least be able to lie down, stand up, turn around, and freely extend their limbs. In short, the future of animal agriculture is a cage-free one.

Death By A Thousand Cuts

August 17, 2015 Sarah "Steve" Mosko, www.sarahmosko.wordpress.com Educate! Animal Rights, Climate Change, Environment

By Sarah "Steve" Mosko - It’s common knowledge that polar bears, and their primary prey the ringed seal, might go extinct this century as the Arctic sea ice melts because rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG) are warming the planet. Hearing this news, many Americans likely felt something akin to, “Gee, that’s a shame,” but the country did little more than shrug its collective shoulders before getting back to business as usual. But news keeps coming about species threatened by climate change via habitats becoming unlivable or collapsing of food webs. The latest sting came from Canadian researchers at the University of Ottawa who concluded that dozens of bumblebee species in North America and Europe could be headed for extinction because the southern reach of their habitat is becoming too hot. The study appeared in the July 10 issue of Sciencemagazine.

A Haven From The Animal Holocaust

August 4, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Animal Rights, Farm, Food and Agriculture

Only in the insanity of corporate America can nonviolent animal rights activists be charged as terrorists while a white supremacist who gunned down African-Americans in a South Carolina church is charged on criminal counts. Only in the insanity of America can Wall Street financers implode the global economy through massive acts of fraud, causing widespread suffering, and be rewarded with trillions of dollars in government bailouts. Only in the insanity of America can government leaders wage wars that are defined as criminal acts of aggression under international law and then remain, unchallenged, in positions of power and influence. All this makes no sense in an open society.

Report: Bee Populations Growing Again In US

July 30, 2015 John Vibes, www.trueactivist.com Educate! Animal Rights, Bees

By John Vibes in True Activist - There has recently been some good news about the honeybee populations, after several years of alarming reports that their numbers have been making a steep decline towards a possible extinction. Numbers released from the U.S. Department of Agriculture this week show that there has actually been an increase in the number of bee colonies. Beekeepers across the country have been diligently working to preserve and redevelop bee colonies, and according to these recent numbers, their efforts are actually working. The report indicated that the number of bee colonies in the country have finally seen an upturn, increasing from an all-time low of 2.4 million in 2006 to the current figure of 2.7 million. This is certainly good news, but it strangely contradicts reports that came from the same sources just months ago.

Activists Face ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Charge In Freeing 5,740 Mink

July 28, 2015 Associated Press, www.AP.org Resist! Animal Rights, Criminal Justice, Law, Terrorism

Two animal rights activists have been charged with terrorizing the fur industry during cross-country road trips in which they released about 5,740 mink from farms and vandalized the homes and businesses of industry members, the FBI said on Friday. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Joseph Brian Buddenberg, 31, and Nicole Juanita Kissane, 28, both of Oakland, California, and federal prosecutors charged them with conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. A federal grand jury indictment unsealed on Friday said the two caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages during 40,000 miles of cross-country trips over the summer and into the fall of 2013. “Whatever your feelings about the fur industry, there are legal ways to make your opinions known,” US attorney Laura Duffy said in a statement.

Oslo Creates World’s First ‘Highway’ To Protect Endangered Bees

June 29, 2015 Agence France-Presse, www.theguardian.com Create! Animal Rights, Bees, Norway

By Agence France-Presse - From flower-emblazoned cemeteries to rooftop gardens and balconies, Norway’s capital Oslo is creating a “bee highway” to protect endangered pollinators essential to food production. “We are constantly reshaping our environment to meet our needs, forgetting that other species also live in it,” Agnes Lyche Melvaer, head of the Bybi, an environmental group supporting urban bees, which is leading the project. “To correct that we need to return places to them to live and feed,” she explained, sitting on a bench in a lush city centre square bursting with early Nordic summer growth. With its sunflowers, marigolds and other nectar-bearing flowers planted by bee-loving locals and school children, Abel’s Garden was until recently covered only in grass but is now a floral “feeding station” for bees.

Dept. Of Interior Forced To Reveal Extent Of Fracking In Gulf

June 4, 2015 Mike Ludwig, www.truth-out.org Educate! Animal Rights, Environment, Fracking, Oil & Gas

By Mike Ludwig in Truthout - The US Department of the Interior must reveal records on the use of fracking technology in the Gulf of Mexico under a legal settlement with an environmental group filed in federal court on June 1. The settlement requires the two agencies that regulate offshore oil and gas production in federal waters to release documents on fracking in the Gulf over a nine-month period, beginning in July. The Center for Biological Diversity originally requested the records more than eight months ago under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Once released, the records will also help satisfy a separate FOIA request for Gulf fracking permits filed by Truthout in November 2014. "Offshore fracking has been shrouded in secrecy, but this settlement will finally force the government to tell us where oil companies are using this toxic technique," said Kristen Monsell, a Center attorney.

Great Lakes Citizens Rally For Clean Energy For Wildlife

June 4, 2015 Cathy Collentine, www.tarsandsresistance.org Resist! Animal Rights, Canada, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands, usa

By Cathy Collentine by Tar Sands Resistance - On June 6, thousands will gather in the Twins Cities to express concern over expanded tar sands transportation through the Great Lakes region. Too much toxic and nearly impossible to clean up tar sands oil is already entering our region. The area has seen ill effects like the massive 2010 spill into the Kalamazoo River and piles of dirty, polluting coal-like petroleum coke piling up near refineries. With the U.S. State Department giving backroom approval for a near doubling of the amount of tar sands entering the region primarily along the Alberta Clipper line, it’s time for a clean energy future. People are demanding that no new tar sands enter the region until a transparent, public review process takes place, and cleaner solutions are considered and advanced.

Tribes “Disrespected” By Officials In Grizzly Fight

May 11, 2015 Sara Atiqtalik, www.goaltribal.org Educate! Animal Rights, Indigenous Rights, Racism, Sovereignty

CODY, WY. 05-08-2015 -- James Walks Along was forced to abandon an address to the Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee (YES) of the joint federal and state Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) by Brian Nesvik, IGBC Chair and Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) Wildlife Division Chief, at the committee’s meeting in Cody, Wyoming on April 30, 2015. “This has never happened before,” said James Walks Along, the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Northern Cheyenne Nation. “I was shocked by the disrespect I was shown.” The YES-IGBC is a joint federal and state agency cross-jurisdictional body that takes the lead on grizzly bear management in Greater Yellowstone. In 2013 the YES-IGBC voted to delist the Yellowstone grizzly bear from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and supports opening trophy-hunting seasons on the grizzly.

More Than 125 Groups Call For Protection Of Bees

March 3, 2015 Pesticide Action Network, www.panna.org Resist! Animal Rights, Environment, Law

More than 125 conservation, beekeeping, food safety, religious, ethnic and farming advocacy groups today urged President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency to take swift and meaningful action to protect honey bees and other pollinators from toxic pesticides. “It’s time to stop pesticides from killing our bees,” said Lori Ann Burd, Environmental Health director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “If bees and other pollinators are going to have a real future in this country, President Obama needs to take concrete steps to protect them from these toxic substances.” The letter urges the president to take action against a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, systemic poisons that are devastating bee populations.

More Than Half Million People Call For Protection Of Monarch Butterfly

March 3, 2015 Center for Food Safety, www.centerforfoodsafety.org Resist! Animal Rights, Conservation, Environment

More than half a million people called on the government to protect the monarch butterfly today, as the public comment period on protecting monarchs under the Endangered Species Act closed. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now has nine months to determine whether to propose protections for the iconic orange and black butterfly which has declined by 90 percent in the last 20 years. The agency’s review of the monarch was spurred by a legal petition filed in August by the Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Xerces Society and renowned monarch scientist Dr. Lincoln Brower, all of whom submitted comments today renewing their call for the agency to list the monarch butterfly as threatened. In December the Service announced a positive initial finding on the petition and determined that Endangered Species Act protection for monarch butterflies may be warranted, triggering a one-year status review. The petition has been resoundingly supported by monarch experts, legislators, and the public.

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