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No Rights for Dogs/Cats at Animal Rights Conference 2017

Instead they celebrate a killing of them. Next month, the Animal Rights Conference will take place in Alexandria, VA. It bills itself as, “The world’s largest & longest-running event dedicated to the liberation of animals from all forms of human exploitation and use.” It is not. It is sponsored by PETA, an organization which is the functional equivalent of a slaughterhouse, its featured speaker from PETA kills animals by the thousands, and it prohibits other…

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More Kittens Dead at the Hands of PETA

Last week I reported about all the kittens PETA rounded up and took to the Peninsula Regional Animal Shelter in Newport News, VA, to be killed. PETA logged them as “live releases,” but only two (out of 20) were spared. Among the dead were unweaned neonatal kittens, six week old kittens, eight week old kittens, four month old kittens, seven month old juveniles, one year old juveniles, and adult cats.  They were listed as having…

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Honoring the Intent of SB 1381: Put PETA Out of the Killing Business

After PETA took Maya, a  family’s beloved dog, and killed her, the Virginia legislature overwhelmingly passed SB 1381 to make clear that a “private shelter” was not a tool for PETA and others to kill animals, but had to be “operated for the purpose of finding permanent adoptive homes and facilitating other lifesaving outcomes for animals.” Unfortunately, the proposed regulations written to implement SB 1381 will allow PETA to continue killing upwards of 96% of…

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PETA’s Endless Slaughter

Just Released Statistics Show that in 2016, PETA Killed 854 Cats and 557 Dogs. Please Contact Virginia Officials to Demand an End to It. In addition to killing 854 cats, PETA urged officials in various communities across the country to round up and kill cats, too, including the Seaside Heights, NJ, Boardwalk cats. Your donation dollars at work. The Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (VDACS) has finally received and posted PETA’s killing rate…

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The Enemy of My Enemy is NOT My Friend

Supporters of “Jallikattu” in India, where a scared — not “sacred” as proponents claim, but scared — bull is chased by a lot of people to forcibly hang on to him, have been trying to contact me to help them because PETA India has been fighting it. They have me confused with someone else. I am a proponent of animal rights, not a defender of harm. In fact, because I believe in the rights of…

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Direct Action Everywhere: Stop Embracing Dog & Cat Killers

Updated January 17, 2017 A Letter to the Leadership, Activists, & Supporters of Direct Action Everywhere Direct Action Everywhere Organizing Principles:  ‘WHAT WE BELIEVE:  Animal Liberation: We believe that every animal (human or non-human) has an equal right to be safe, happy, and free…  Truth: There are times in history when uncomfortable truths must be said; we will say them…  HOW WE OPERATE:  Integrity. Choose the ethical route over the easier one…’ ‘Thursday, Dec 29,…

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