Many of you have probably seen the news story about the woman who recently cloned her pet Pitbull, Booger, who passed away from cancer in 2006. The cloning procedure resulted in 5 miniature copies of Booger and cost the woman $50,000.
Yes, $50,000.
Look, if there is anyone who understands what it’s like to love a [...]
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Posted in Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, Farmed Animals, Veganism, tagged animal suffering, pictures, Humane Society, pigs, Farmed Animals, livestock transport, Animal Welfare on July 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This weekend on my 6.5 hour drives to and from my parents’ farm in North Dakota, I saw several trucks transporting pigs to–I assume–slaughter. Every time I saw them, I’d look at them all crammed in there and wondered when they last had anything to eat or drink. I thought about how hot [...]
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Posted in Animal Cruelty, Factory Farming, Farmed Animals, tagged Animal Cruelty, Animal Protection Organizations, animal suffering, cows, dairy, Factory Farming, Farmed Animals, Humane Society on June 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The Humane Society of the United States has unfortunately uncovered more abuse of dairy cows. This time the abuse occurred at an auction house in New Mexico. The following video shows some of the offenses, including kicking a weak cow in the head, sticking cows in the eyes with pokers, dragging them by [...]
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This past weekend my youngest sister adopted an 8 month old puppy from the local Humane Society. She is a French bulldog/pug mix (the dog, not my sister - har har!) and has been named Ellie May.
Ellie was rescued a couple weeks ago here in Minnesota: “They were in a barn in [...]
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This morning on Minnesota Public Radio I heard a story about a local cockfighting operation that was busted in St. Paul. This amazes me. I mean, I know this kind of stuff goes on, I guess, but you don’t think it could be happening at your neighbor’s house or somewhere so close.
According to [...]
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