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Must-See Video: Father Frank Mann's Conversion to Veganism
Offbeat  (tags: personal awakening, plight of animals, farm animals, factory farms, animal cruelty, veganism, spiritual life, animal rights, peaceful world )

Julia
- 51 days ago - planetoftheanimals.blogspot.com
Father Mann recently had a deep personal awakening to the plight of animals, and has since incorporated the values of veganism and animal rights into his spiritual life and vision of a more just and peaceful world.
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Judge Orders German Artist Not to Strangle Puppies as Art
Offbeat  (tags: sick, twisted woman, court ruling judge, banned killing, strangling pups, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 386 days ago - examiner.com
A German artist was ordered by a judge not to strangle two puppies during a live show planned in a theater in the Spandau district of Berlin last Friday. The artist argued the judge was blocking her "artistic freedom."
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Ten Stupid and Sadistic Animal Experiments That Taxpayers Have No Idea They Fund
Offbeat  (tags: taxpayers, cruel sadistic animal experiments weird, animal cruelty, senseless )

Simone
- 388 days ago - negotiationisover.net
We've heard plenty of stories in the last few days of tax dollars funding lavish Las Vegas vacations for government agencies and prostitution scandals in the Secret Service. But these are all peanuts compared to weird animal experiments
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Is This the Most Extreme Window Display Ever? Brutal Treatment of Woman, 24, as She Is Subjected to 'Animal Tests' .
Offbeat  (tags: lush company, protesting, animal testing, humans, animal cruelty, awareness, shoppers )

Simone
- 391 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
They dragged her along with a rope around her neck and pushed her down on a bench. It was feeding time for Jacqueline Traide and you could tell from the look on her face she was terrified.
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3 Horses Die During Filming of HBO Show
Offbeat  (tags: horses, film, death, die, animal cruelty, HBO, Luck, sadness, ethics, protection, performance )

Lindsey
- 433 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
A horse was injured and euthanized Tuesday during production of the racetrack drama "Luck," the third death in connection with the series, and HBO agreed to suspend filming with horses while the accident is investigated.
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Stop Dog Killing Artist From Gaining Profit! Take Action!
Offbeat  (tags: petition, art, animal cruelty, dog, killed, sadness, bizarre, animals, arts, crime, culture, environment, ethics, humans, odd, pets, unusual )

Lindsey
- 613 days ago - gopetition.com
Artist Tom Otterness has been contracted to make 3 sculptures for a subway station for $750,000. His last "art" was a film. He bought a shelter dog, chained it to a fence, shot it to death and filmed the murder in a movie he called 'Shot Dog Film.'
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Letters to the Editor; Reader âEURoeBurnsâEUR
Offbeat  (tags: animal cruelty, Burning Man, hippies, original worldwidehippies web content, worldwide hippies, WWH )

Joseph
- 613 days ago - worldwidehippies.com
Toni's cause: TO BAN ANIMAL TESTING. Many people are unaware of the millions of animals that are subjected to cruelty, torture and inevitable death each year in the name of beauty. This is why I created a petition entitled "Cruelty Free Beauty"
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Dog Killer Michael Vick to Address Congress on Evils of Animal Fighting
Offbeat  (tags: congress, controvery, shameful, vick, dog killer, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 673 days ago - examiner.com
Are true dog lovers expected to believe that Vick has seen the error of his ways? The Humane Society of the United States, which has essentially arranged a speaking tour for Vick, seems to believe so. So evidently does the U.S. Congress, which has
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Bullfighting Demonstration Sees Protestors Lying in Fake Blood
Offbeat  (tags: protesters, horrendous bullfighting, bull runs, bulls killed, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 687 days ago - metro.co.uk
Animal cruelty protestors marked the build-up to Pamplona's annual Running of the Bulls festival by covering themselves in fake blood and lying on the ground in the form of a running bull.
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Directing Her Rage, She's More Than a Girl in a Cage
Offbeat  (tags: young school girl, queensland, australia, protested, against puppymills, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 698 days ago - smh.com.au
A Gold Coast schoolgirl has locked herself in a dog cage for 24 hours in an effort to draw attention to "puppy mills".
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Giovanni Estrada, Accused Town 'N Country Cat Abuser Due Back in Court
Offbeat  (tags: animals, humans, animal abuser, news, law, Animal Cruelty )

Yrna
- 861 days ago - wtsp.com
Town 'N Country, Florida - Giovanni Estrada, 20, is due back in a Hillsborough County courtroom Tuesday for a status hearing on his case involving two counts of Animal Cruelty. Estrada was arrested last year, accused of shooting his girlfriend's cat,
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Trial Dismissed for Alleged Animal Abuser
Offbeat  (tags: animals, humans, animal abuser, news, law, Animal Cruelty )

Yrna
- 861 days ago - wgrz.com
LOCKPORT, NY - The case against the man accused of beating "Daisy", a 3-month-old Lab mix pup, has been dismissed in Niagara County after a key witness backs out.John Faso, the Executive Director of the SPCA of Niagara tells Channel 2
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U. of Wisconsin Vet Quits Over Animal Care Concerns
Offbeat  (tags: univeristy of wisconsin, veternarian, resigned, animal welfare, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 881 days ago - opposingviews.com
Conditions for animals who were tormented in experiments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)--where sheep were abused and killed in cruel and illegal decompression experiments, among other horrors--are apparently so bad that they have
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Cockfighting in Kentucky Puts State on the Naughty List
Offbeat  (tags: kentucky, cockfighting state, animal cruelty, animal activists )

Simone
- 881 days ago - animals.change.org
During this time of year, Santa needs all the help he can get. Animal activists are helping out good ol' St. Nick by compiling their own lists of who's been naughty and who's been nice to our furry and feathered friends.
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Double Trouble: U.K. Approves Sale of Cloned Meat
Offbeat  (tags: frankstein behaviour, england, cloned meat approval, animal welfare, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 893 days ago - animals.change.org
Hello Dolly! The Food Standards Authority in England has declared that meat and milk from the descendants of cloned animals is safe to eat. The FSA supports no restrictions on the sale of food products from the offspring of cloned animals, which means
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