MINNEAPOLIS - Target has joined McDonald's in dropping one of the nation's largest egg suppliers after an animal rights group released an undercover video of the egg producer's farms in three states. McDonald's Corp. said Friday it had dropped Sparboe Farms as a supplier after a video by the group Mercy for Animals showed cases of animal cruelty at five facilities in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado. Target Corp. soon followed, saying it would pull eggs from the Litchfield, Minn.-based company off its shelves.
Yes, [Karen Dawn] is one of those people: a vegan and an animal rights activist. A transplant from Australia who now lives in New York and Los Angeles ("I'm bicoastal, baby"), Dawn is the founder of the e-newsletter/website Dawn Watch, which tracks animal issues in the media. She's snagged book blurbs from folks like Bill Maher and David Duchovny, and testimonials from dozens of other celebs. She's the animal rights activist to the stars. Honestly, I feel less bad about it than I did before reading Dawn's book. She's not out to scold others into orthodox veganism - she herself is a "cheatin' vegan" who'll occasionally eat foods that contain animal products because it's easier to adhere to a more relaxed standard. She mentions people she knows who "went vegan for a while and then gave it...
The co-founder of an animal rights organization backed Republican Bill Maloney's quest for governor Tuesday. Carey Theil, executive director of Grey2K USA, a Massachusetts- based nonprofit working to outlaw greyhound racing, said dog lovers should support Maloney.
Animal rights activists denounced San Bernardino County's central animal shelter in Devore at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, pleading with the board to allow volunteers to assist at the shelter to improve conditions there. They complained of high euthanasia rates, cramped and uncomfortable quarters and a lack of capacity at the shelter, which opened in the 1980s with about 50 kennels and has since expanded to about 90.
By Brian McCready Milford Bureau Chief bmccready@nhregister.com MILFORD -- A statewide animal rights group staged a noontime demonstration Friday to send a message that the state Department of Environmental Protection's hunting and killing of 17 deer on Charles Island last month was "unacceptable.
Every group has extremists, and from time to time one of them does something so extreme it shocks nearly everyone. Current example: Meredith Lowell, an animal-rights activist from Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Earlier this week, Lowell was charged with soliciting a hit man to kill someone - nearly anyone, it appears - who happened to be wearing fur.
By Brian McCready Milford Bureau Chief bmccready@nhregister.com MILFORD -- An animal rights group plans a protest today to send a message to the Connecticut Audubon Society and the state Department of Environmental Protection that killing the 17 deer on Charles Island was wrong and should not be repeated.
The "blood" on the "mouse" in the cage outside 300 George St. on Tuesday was actually red face paint, and her ears and nose were part of the costume worn in protest against animal testing. Chelsea Rhodes, a member of the Yale Affiliated Animal Rights Network and the senior administrative assistant for the Sociology Department at Yale University, said the protest was planned for World Week for Animals in Laboratories, which began April 20.
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