Tag Archives: animal rights
[ThatsFuckedUp] The China Problem: Video Broadcasts Chinese Cat & Dog Meat Industry
Artist Pian Shan Kong knelt down in front of the dead animals confessing for people’s sins as he apologised to the dead animals during the demonstration [when he could have easily just apologized to the ones still on death row].
[Updated] Kim Kardashian Gets De-Floured
Everyone has their own way nowadays to show disapproval or hatred for a popular celebrity. PETA throws red paint, gays throw glitter and this woman throws flour.
Kardashian, however, was not upset and laughed off the incident afterward, according to EOnline. She said she did not want to press charges against the woman.
“That probably is the craziest, unexpected, weird thing that ever happened to me,” Kardashian told EOnline. “Like I said to my makeup artist, I wanted more powder and that’s a whole lot of translucent powder right there.”
[Updated] California To Decide if Shamoo XXIV is an ‘Illegal Slave’
What’s the best thing to do if you are in the lower tax bracket and bored in San Diego? Go to Sea World of course, but it looks like the park may be coming under fire for its employment (or lack there of) of whales as attractions.
A California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans.
The issue arises from a lawsuit filed by rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a San Diego court on behalf of five orcas named Tilikum, Katina, Corky, Kasatka and Ulises. The whales perform water acrobatics at the SeaWorld amusement parks in San Diego and in Orlando, Florida.
Should PETA Get O.J. Simpson’s House?
PETA is in the works of asking JPMorgan and Chase to hand over his pricey house to this animal rights organization for a new museum.
Why Simpson’s old digs, you ask? Simple. PETA would like to turn the five-bedroom home in Kendall, Fla., into a “Meat is Murder” museum. Simpson was infamously accused of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994.
NY Judge To Decide If Puppies Have Souls
Does your dog have a soul? Mine sure does, depending on how much food I have in front of me and so says the plaintiff in this New York case claiming her dog is entitled to care for it’s physical problems from the shop that sold him.
In her civil suit, dog owner Elena Zakharova contends that pets — considered “property” under state law — are much more than that: living creatures that feel love and pain.
