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Meet the Animal Rights Movement’s Rich Aunt

The deceptively named “Cancer Project” animal-rights group is at it again. This time its target isn’t hot dog makers, but grilled-chicken servers. The group, a branch of the…
Posted October 22, 2009 at12:00 am

PETA Stunts Are Still Trashy

Targeting elementary school children with a bloody elephant character? That was so last week. This week, PETA put up a billboard in the United Kingdom featuring a child…
Posted October 14, 2009 at12:00 am

Super Sized Swindle

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Morgan Spurlock, the director and star of the 2004 “schlock-u-mentary” Super Size Me who was last seen giving a profanity-laced speech to high school…
Posted October 5, 2009 at12:00 am

The Locavore’s New Clothes?

Author James McWilliams has stirred the pot with his new book Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. In it, he takes…
Posted September 29, 2009 at12:00 am

HSUS Targets Ohio in Political Cockfight

 The animal-rights industry is pushing back against Issue 2, a ballot initiative in Ohio that would create a board to develop statewide standards for livestock care. But even if…
Posted September 22, 2009 at12:00 am

Come on Down to the Farmers Market (Bring Your Wallet and Your Food Orthodoxy)

In the mood for a bacon-gouda scone? A $5 pint of raspberries? Some $11-per-pound pork chops? How about the $4 bunch of parsnips? Well, you’re…
Posted September 17, 2009 at12:00 am

HSUS’s Best Friend?

A columnist at the Baltimore Sun offers an ironic take on the relationship between disgraced felon Michael Vick and the animal rights radicals at the so-called Humane Society…
Posted September 15, 2009 at12:00 am

One Step Closer to a PETA White House

Yesterday, the Senate voted 63-35 to invoke cloture on the nomination of animal rights activist Cass Sunstein to be the nation’s new “regulatory czar,” which means the Senate can…
Posted September 10, 2009 at12:00 am

Russell Crowe Puts the Pedal to the Metal

Oscar winner Russell Crowe isn’t one to take an insult lying down. When Australian newspaper columnist Annette Sharp criticized the actor for eating three tacos and a soda during a…
Posted September 8, 2009 at12:00 am

Quotes of the Week

The extremists at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals can engage in some rather boneheaded antics in the name of animal “rights” (or just attracting the…
Posted September 4, 2009 at12:00 am