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Animals News tagged with animal rights

Portuguese Circuses Hit By Ban
Animals  (tags: good news, portuguese circuses, animals banned, laws, animal welfare, wild animals, animal rights )

Simone
- 19 days ago - captiveanimals.org
The use of some wild animals will be phased-out in Portuguese circuses thanks to a new law introduced in October. The law prohibits the purchase of all species of primates, bears, seals, hippopotamuses, penguins, crocodiles, elephants, big cats, sea
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ACTION ALERT: A Kitten Named Cuddles Died of Torture. PLEASE TOUGHEN ANIMAL CRUELTY LAWS FOR SAFER SOCIETY
Animals  (tags: animal welfare, cuddles, viciously tortured, animal laws, protection, legalisation, animal rights, punishment animal abusers )

Simone
- 28 days ago - change.org
Animal cruelty is escalating across the country. Like many other States-as animal cruelty is not taken seriously and treated like a misdemeanor-it appears Pennsylvania citizens has a new hobby: Torturing pets to death. However, due to lax animal cruelty
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ACTION ALERT: Tell Oprah to Advocate More for Animal Rights!
Animals  (tags: oprah, animal welfare issues, animal rights, fighting animal cruelty animal abuse, animal advocate )

Simone
- 39 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
I admire and applaud all you have done for society to recognize and speak out against about so many causes including child abuse, domestic violence, and women's rights. However, when are you going to do more to speak out about the rights of animals?
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Sadism in ACTION! The Bull of Fire
Animals  (tags: bull, fire, firebull, cruetly, spain, soria, animal rights, animalcruelty, activism, death, torture )

Eureka
- 49 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
A toro de fuego ("fire bull") or toro embolado ("bull in balls") is a bull that has balls of flammable material attached to its horns which are lighted, and is set free in the streets at night for dodging during Spanish festivals. TAKE ACTION!
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New Era Dawning For Animal Rights?
Animals  (tags: animal rights, aninmal laws, legalisation, animal activists, animal protection, welfare )

Simone
- 70 days ago - opednews.com
A new and more humane era may be dawning for animals as recognition spreads that, like human beings, they are sentient creatures who experience joy and feel pain and are entitled to legal protection. "Animal law is a rapidly expanding field that is
2 comments
Better Conditions for Cab Horses Requested
Animals  (tags: malta, europe, tourists, animal rights, cab horses, welfare, legalisation, suffering )

Simone
- 70 days ago - independent.com.mt
The Animal Rights Group together with 19 other organisations have joined forces, signing a petition that appeals for more adequate facilities for cab horses to be implemented with urgency. The organisations said: "We cannot understand why such a
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A Mouthful of Flesh
Animals  (tags: animal rights, discussions, farm animals, vegetarian, animal welfare )

Simone
- 70 days ago - all-creatures.org
In my last post, Dog, Horse... It's Good Food for Us, I posed the question of whether there is a meaningful ethical difference between eating a dog and eating an animal commonly used for food, such as a cow, pig, sheep, chicken or fish. So far, readers
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Comparing Animal Philosophies
Animals  (tags: animal ethics, animal welfare, animal rights, discussion, theories, studies )

Simone
- 79 days ago - all-creatures.org
Comparison of Animal Ethics & Animal Rights. Animal Ethics Includes animal rights but has broader scope, e.g. overlaps with environmental ethics and utilitarianism. Asks how
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How to Do Animal Rights - And Win the War on Animals
Animals  (tags: animal rights, animal welfare, ethics, protection, animal activists )

Simone
- 79 days ago - animalethics.org.uk
This is your free online book about how to do animal rights as a practical activity. You are free to copy any or all of this book for any purpose to promote animal rights (see grey box). We live in an animal holocaust and mass extinction of human making
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Operation Backfire:A Survival Guide for Environmental and Animal Rights Activists
Animals  (tags: animal rights, environmentalists, activists, laws, operation backfire )

Simone
- 81 days ago - all-creatures.org
In 2004, several separate FBI investigations into the animal rights and environmental movements were combined into Major Case #220, also called Operation Backfire. Shortly after, the FBI's top official in charge of domestic terror ism announced that "The
3 comments
On the Disheartening Aspects of Animal Advocacy and Beginning Again
Animals  (tags: animal rights, animal welfare, fighting for animals, emotional, animal welfare advocacy, determination )

Simone
- 81 days ago - animalrights.change.org
In animal rights advocacy, moments or days of feeling encouraged and heartened are too often countered or overshadowed by experiences that frustrate, dishearten, and discourage. It can be a one-step-forward, two-steps-backward movement. Sometimes what
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Animal Control Officer Fired After Complaint Ignored
Animals  (tags: animal control officers, irresponsibility, animals, pets, abuse, animal rights, animal welfare, protection )

Jeanette
- 81 days ago - greeleytribune.com
A longtime Greeley animal control officer who didn't take action in a complaint of dozens of pets apparently being mistreated in a house has been fired by the Greeley police.
8 comments
ACTION ALERT: Help Stop Animal Testing on Pantene!!!!
Animals  (tags: animal testing.animal experiments, pantene company, horrific animal abusers, products, animal rights )

Simone
- 86 days ago - gopetition.com.au
Millions of animals are killed from animal testing per year. 94% of testing is for cosmetics and household products leaving only 6% for medical research. Products like PANTENE, neutrogena, dove, and secret deodorant have killed a majority of these
12 comments
'Sit! Stay! Snuggle!': An Iraq Vet Finds His Dog Tuesday
Animals  (tags: Animals, Service dogs, Seeing Eye dogs, protection, humans, animal rights, dogs, GoodNews )

Dee
- 119 days ago - online.wsj.com
NEW YORK -- Like any other golden retriever seeking a treat, Tuesday nudged his owner's hand with his snout one recent morning and waited expectantly. Trained for 2 Years, Retriever Helps Mr. Montalvan Get Back on His Feet.
12 comments
Stop the Construction of the Primate Breeding Facility in Puerto Rico - ALDF Alert
Animals  (tags: Puerto Rico, Guayama, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, animal rights, animal testing, animal experiments, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, suffering, wildanimals )

Joanna
- 125 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
Please, oppose the proposed construction of a massive facility in Puerto Rico for the purpose of breeding primates for use in painful and traumatic laboratory experiments - sign electronic email to Puerto Rican officials
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