A Busy Week: Seizures & Arrests, Downed Pig Slaughter, 146 Pit Bull Deaths, and More

categories: Activism and Actions, Environment and Global Warming, Farm Animals, Politics and Law

Published February 23, 2009 @ 08:26AM PT

It occurs to me that this past week was a rather busy news week around this blog, including around the weekend when fewer people check in generally, so for those of you who check in only every few days, here is a list of perhaps the most important posts from the last week on this blog:

Activists Arrested as "Terrorists" for Exercising Free Speech

Sea Shepherd Ship Boarded by Australian Police; Videos and Logs Seized

California Judge Gives the OK to Keep Dragging Downed Pigs to Slaughter

Your Dairy Dollars at Work

Plant-Based Hunger Solutions: Feeding More With Less, Part 2--Scarcity and Distribution (guest post from Dawn Moncrief)

Update on the NC Pit Bulls: 146 Killed, Including Pups Born in Custody (update to 127 Pit Bulls, Incl. 60 Puppies, Ordered Killed)

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it is a busy week but a good week. It shows that people are taking action in the name of animals who can't speak for themselves. I feel an uprising coming......
two new articles I found today.

Hog farm documentary:

"Death at a Factory Farm," produced by Emmy award-winning Tom Simon debuts at 10 p.m. March 16 on HBO. It includes undercover video taken at a hog farm in Creston, in Wayne County, that shows piglets and sows being injured and killed by beating and hanging and covers the owner's trial on cruelty charges. It will also have airings on March 19, 26 and 31.

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MTV viewers are about to get a serious dose of VEG action delivered straight to their living rooms!

Our friends over at Vegan.com just posted this exciting news from Compassion Over Killing member Erica Meier:

“Our 2009 MTV Pro-Veg Ad campaign launches tonight: viewers around the country will see, perhaps for their first time, a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the cruel world of factory farming—and they’ll be further directed to visit our website TryVeg.com for more information.

The ads will run nationwide for five straight weeks, offering viewers a 30-second behind-the-scenes tour inside the world of factory farming and encouraging them to think about exactly what they’re eating.

So tune in already and check out Compassion Over Killing’s new fancy pants ads! To learn more about this hard-working organization, visit COK.net!

Posted by amber lopez on 02/23/2009 @ 11:32PM PT
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Stephanie is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull.