Sentences with phrase «animal activists in»

PIJAC board chair and CEO of Fish Mart, Inc., Laura «Peach» Reid recently testified alongside animal activists in support of shelter standards in Connecticut.

Representatives of HSI, working with local animal activists in South Korea, have succeeded in shutting down five farms since then — usually by negotiating deals with the farmers and persuading them to pursue new, less brutal livelihoods.

The legislation also serves as an expression of solidarity with animal activists in Asia, including South Korea, who are fighting the gruesome trade.

In 1997, a small group of animal activists in western North Carolina resolved to do something about the high rate of euthanasia in local shelters.

HollywoodNews.com: Kristen Bell will play an ambitious Los Angeles reporter opposite Drew Barrymore's animal activist in the upcoming film «Whales.»

Not exact matches

Part of an emerging crew of startups operating in cellular agriculture — the pairing of food science with genetic engineering — Modern Meadow plans to appeal to more than just the animal - activist crowd.

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.

That's why activists at this year's U.N. climate summit in Paris are taking a gentle approach to tackling the world's greenhouse gas - intensive love affair with meat, ranging from offering lookalike plant burgers to suggesting a gradual weaning off animal protein.

Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

They've been afraid of listening to people who want to ride in a flotilla to Palestine, people who are animal rights activists,» he said.

In one public TV program, [the activists] stated that they would rather see animals live than save one human life...

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.

«The brand the «war on terror» creates the illusion,» Northcott writes, «that the United States is engaged in a global war with a range of enemies who include Islamists, anti-globalisation activists, environmental and animal rights activists.»

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Except that the animal - rights activists were out in protest at the entrance to the tunnel.

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.

And in the radical animal rights activists mind Pan should be seen as, treated as and protected in law as a person.

Pedro Pozas, a Spanish animal - rights activist, made international headlines in 2006 when he declared, «I am an ape.»

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.

In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

[37] In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

Certainly in political terms, it is easier to regulate devices than behavior, so this may be part of the animal activist strategy.

She is also an animal welfare activist and was awarded an OBE in 1995.

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.

http://responsibleeatingandliving.com/shows/Ask-A-Vegan-April-1-2012.mp3Podcast: Play in new window DownloadCaryn discusses her brief meeting and conversations with vegan, ecofeminist, activist, scholar and founder of Feminists for Animal Rights, Marti Kheel before she passed in November 2011.

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).

ABOUT 40 animal rights activists rallied outside Ringal Valley chicken farm on the weekend in protest against living conditions on the property.

An RSPCA spokesman confirmed that Wally's Piggery in Murrumbateman and the connected business of Tennessee Piggery near Young had closed earlier this year, after activists released confronting footage of alleged animal cruelty at Wally's.

Animal rights activists see the Muslim and Jewish slaughter methods as unnecessary cruelty and calls to ban this kind of butchering have grown in Europe in recent years as halal meat has become increasingly available in shops and restaurants.

A group of veterinarians, animal activists and lawmakers are sharpening their efforts to ban the declawing of cats in New York, a practice they describe as little more than amputating the animals» digits below the knuckles.

It might make sense that, say, technology bloggers would be disproportionately male, since many more men than women work in high - tech (and obsess about it), but politics is a different animal — women may still be underrepresented in top elected offices, but at least as many women as men work as political activists and political staff or as volunteers.

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.»

Activists, about two dozen in number, held up signs like «Mayor de Blasio: Animal Hero!»

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.

The cow that made a mad, brief dash to freedom from a Queens slaughterhouse is now on his way to a farm sanctuary in rural New Jersey, thanks to a dedicated animal rights activist.

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.

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.

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.

► Also Wednesday at ScienceInsider, Hristio Boytchev reported on the latest development in the battle of a German neuroscientist against a campaign by animal - rights activists.

EARA suspects the companies have given in to pressure from animal rights activists.

Chris Magee, head of policy at the pressure group Understanding Animal Research (UAR) in London, tells ScienceInsider that withholding information does not help scientists and their work, because it leaves a «vacuum that activists can fill in with misleading information.»

(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.)

At an event in Berlin today, the organizations launched a new project to educate the public about animal studies, after harsh attacks by animal rights activists in recent years.

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.

On the contrary: The only demonstration that made the news was a sit - in by animal rights activists in Milan organized in parallel.

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.

Instead, officials only angered animal rights activists in China and abroad, while leaving U.S. epidemiologists scratching their heads in bemusement.

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.