Sentences with phrase «animal activist for»

Assemblyman Dante Acosta, a supporter of OBOL and an avid animal activist for animal welfare.

Baker, an animal activist for 40 years and a walking encyclopedia on the commercial dog business — he's been a senior investigator for the ASPCA and the HSUS — watched the trade evolve from a mom - and - pop sideline into a multinational behemoth.

Not exact matches

Animal rights activists released a graphic video showing workers whipping, kicking and punching cows at a farm responsible for the cheese at Domino's, Pizza Hut and Papa John's.

Animal rights activists have fought foie gras production for years, because the luxury food requires producers to force - feed ducks with a pipe so they eat enough to enlarge the liver.

This has been great for agricultural efficiency, but animal welfare activists have criticized the practice for creating birds that have major health issues due to their size, including leg disorders, weakened immune systems, and cardiovascular problems.

Chipotle as part of the announcement also said that it would give its chickens more space (6 pounds per square foot), provide them with improved lighting and litter in their housing, and change how its chickens are slaughtered to a practice pushed for by animal welfare activists.

He became a hero to animal rights activists when he sentenced NFL star Michael Vick to nearly two years in prison in 2007 for running a dogfighting ring.

(The domestic market has also presented another sort of challenge: Animal - welfare activists targeted Saputo Inc. for what they describe as inhumane practices on the part of one of its suppliers.

One does not have to be an animal rights activist to see why this is not an acceptable option for the industry.

Animal - rights activists are up in arms about a recent statement by Peter Singer ¯ a bioethics professor at Princeton's Center for Human Values who was, once upon a time, beloved by those activists for his 1975 book Animal Liberation.

Animal welfare activists remind us that hundreds of millions of animals are used each year as idols for questionable research in science and as victims of inhumane treatment in industry, including food industries that rear and slaughter animals for meat.

Predictably, animal rights activists are calling for a boycott.

While this indeed might offend some activists who wrongly declare that «all animals are equal,» it does not provide much of a mandate for extinguishment.

It shows up in their contempt for humane societies and animal rights activists.

Animal protectionists cast a great deal of ire on the wildlife damage control programs, especially the work performed by USDA - APHIS - Wildlife Services (hereafter WS) which has historically administered predator control programs in the U.S.. For example, activists reject the idea that coyote control programs are needed to protect flocks from costly predation.

Unfortunately, proving that CAR activists are mistaken on their understanding of human - animal relations does not necessarily translate into support for trapping.

Australian agricultural industry groups are bracing for attacks from animal activists globally following the recent release of an explosive documentary which claims to «expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture».

Despite the obvious benefits for the welfare of the hens argued by animal rights activists, the report summarized the dietary nutritional superiority in organic, pastured eggs.

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And he, much to the shock of vegetarians, liberals, animal - rights activists and grocery - store shoppers everywhere, makes an enthusiastic and palpable argument (palpable in that it is entertaining and well thought - out, albeit full of name - calling like «tofu breath») for the supposed ecological, physical and familial benefits of killing your own food (including growing your own veggies).

Many fans have called for the player to be suspended, while animal activists have described the scene as «pure torture».

Pink is a powerhouse as a performer, as an activist for women and animals, and now she's one awesome mom to two little cuties, Willow and mos...

Implying that support for a bill to ban horse - carriages is waning, Mayor Bill de Blasio told animal rights activists today to «go get the votes in the City Council.»

The first activist then jokes that he or she is «gonna run some medical experiments on them» before the second adds: «We could use them as substitutes for animals when testing.»

The thorny issue pitted animal rights activists — who relentlessly opposed Mr. de Blasio's main rival for the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2013, former Council Speaker Christine Quinn — against organized labor, since the horse drivers are represented by the Teamsters.

Animal rights activists who have been trying to ban the carriage industry for years placed the blame for the deal's demise squarely on Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

Animal rights activists held a vigil for the bull who died after escaping a Queens slaughterhouse.

2017 could be a rough ride for Mayor de Blasio as animal rights activists saddle up for a renewed campaign to end the use of carriage horses in Central Park.

Donny Moss is a NYC - based animal rights activist who runs local campaigns and produces animal rights videos for TheirTurn.net.

For years, animal - rights activists have been trying to get New York City to ban horse - drawn carriages — as London, Paris, Key West, Santa Fe, and even Beijing have done.

After a compromise deal to keep carriage horses in Central Park fell apart this morning, animal rights activists who have been trying to ban the industry for years placed the blame squarely on Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

NEW DELHI — Armed with a government order and escorted by police, animal activists yesterday seized and released into the wild 50 rhesus monkeys being used for testing a new drug.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

Their reasons for supporting the change differ, of course: Activists see the new policy as a way to better scrutinize animal research; researchers see it as a way of educating the public.

(The University of Cambridge abandoned plans in 2004 for a primate research lab, and activists have targeted an animal research lab being built by the University of Oxford.)

Campbell, who believes all animal protein is bad for human health, says he is not an animal rights activist.

Rainer Gaertner, head of the activist group Tierversuchsgegner Bundesrepublik Deutschland (the German Association for Opponents of Animal Research) in Berlin, dismisses the new endeavor as mere «propaganda» and «brainwashing» to perpetuate the idea that animal testing is unavoidable and worthy of taxpayers» Animal Research) in Berlin, dismisses the new endeavor as mere «propaganda» and «brainwashing» to perpetuate the idea that animal testing is unavoidable and worthy of taxpayers» animal testing is unavoidable and worthy of taxpayers» money.

One example is the case of Nikos Logothetis, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, who decided to end his primate studies last year after national television broadcast footage shot by an undercover animal rights activist that purportedly showed animals being mistreated.

Sci - fi fans and animal - rights activists alike have been announcing its arrival for decades, but in a world where food scientists are still trying to figure out the best ways to extend the life of cake, it's hard to imagine that meat created in a petri dish might gain a place on our dinner plates anytime soon.

He uses neither fetal tissue nor primates in his research, and so is an unlikely target for pro-life groups or militant animal rights activists.

The activists cite a letter from Berns stating that «mice are available» with a low background incidence of tumours, and a high sensitivity to carcinogens, «thereby reducing both the time of testing and the number of animals required for a reliable measurement».

Prominent animal rights activist Peter Singer was arrested last week in Australia for allegedly trespassing on a piggery that is part - owned by the Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating.

Animal rights activists are «very pleased,» says Alka Chandna, the senior laboratory oversight specialist at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which opposes the use of animals in reAnimals (PETA), which opposes the use of animals in reanimals in research.

I didn't become vegan for animal rights or activist reasons.

I was a hardcore animal rights activist vegan for three years, at a time when I was also teaching publicly and espousing a lot of those beliefs to others.

Well... I guess this is a sticky issue for many animal activists and animal lovers.

Dating for vegans, vegetarians, environmentalists and animal rights activists.

I lovwe reading, watching TV, going for drives on country roads, animal advocate (not activist), full - figured, short.

Animal rights activists in New Zealand have called for a ban on school.

Chase (Adrien Grenier), mischief - maker extraordinaire, gets dumped by his activist girlfriend, Dulcie (Ali Larter), for refusing to participate in an animal - rights demonstration that is for him a bridge too far.