Gymnast Shawn Johnson Put To Sleep After Breaking Leg | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

This video nicely highlights the insanity in killing “racing” horses when they become injured.  I think my favorite parts are when Shawn’s mother says “it’s just so expensive to keep a lame gymnast”; and then when the host asks her if  Shawn was in a lot of pain at the end, and she replies, “oh [...]

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HBO Special on Factory Farming

Last night HBO premiered a show called Death on a Factory Farm. This is a small segment. I haven’t seen the whole thing yet, and am not sure if I’ll be able to stomach it, but I do have a friend recording it for me.  Has anyone else seen it?  What were your thoughts? Viewer [...]

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Hero Dog Tries To Help Wounded Dog

This video just melts my heart.  It is a great example of how loving and selfless non-human animals can be.  The whole idea that so many people hold that says somehow humans have a monopoly on emotions kind of gets tossed out the window when you see something like this.  We could all learn a [...]

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Dogs are an Elephant’s Best Friend…?

An unlikely friendship between and elephant and a dog.

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Designer Karl Lagerfeld Defends Inexcusable Use of Fur

Designer Karl Lagerfeld recently attempted to defend his use of fur in his clothing lines.  What was his brilliant argument, you might be wondering?  “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish” and that hunters are only “killing those beasts who would kill us [...]

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Adopt. Never Buy.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

What’s for dinner?  This, which can be seen in a recent PETA undercover video: [The video shows] stomach-turning brutality. Workers are seen smashing birds into loading cages like basketballs, stomping heads and breaking necks, apparently for fun, even pretending to rape one. On the tape, one worker describes losing his temper at a tom who [...]

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Sarah Palin “pardons” a turkey…Sort of.

Wow.  I have to say that our nation escaped a complete disaster when we elected the Obama-Biden ticket as opposed to McCain-Palin.  Sarah Palin was recently interviewed at a farm (slaughter-house??) “pardoning” a turkey for Thanksgiving, while right behind her another turkey is meeting its demise–and she could care less.  She’s happy go-lucky the whole [...]

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New ‘Yes on Prop 2′ Commercial

For a blog that’s about factory farming and animal rights, I realize I haven’t said much about one of the biggest anti-factory farming campaigns going on right now: Yes on Proposition 2 in California.  If passed, Proposition 2 would end the practice of cramming farm animals into cages so small the animals can’t even turn [...]

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For the People. For the Planet. For the Animals.

You need to go watch this awesome video, courtesy of Non-violence United. It’s about the environmental impact of eating meat and dairy products vs. going vegan; the global food shortage; your health; and the human/non-human animal disconnect.  It’s 11 minutes out of your day and more information than you can shake a stick at! No [...]

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