Update: A representative of Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine reports that the company is no longer slaughtering lobsters and crabs at a processing plant previously operated by Linda Bean’s Maine Lobster. It appears that a company called Harbor’s Maine Realty, LLC purchased the property, and Harbor’s Maine Lobster, LLC acquired the processing operation. It is unclear … Read more »
Last week, we reported on the bears from Chief Saunooke Bear Park who got a new lease on life when they were relocated to an accredited wildlife sanctuary. Now you can witness their journey in a heartwarming new video: As happy as we are for these bears, our hearts are heavy for the 11 others … Read more »
What did you have for lunch today? If it contained meat, not only did you support cruelty to animals, you also supported an unprecedented attack on First Amendment rights, according to an eye-opening July/August Mother Jones cover story on the history of “ag-gag” laws. © Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals The report starts at what you might call … Read more »
The infamous Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) has been cited again for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) following an inspection by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that discovered that the facility was confining a baboon to a cage so tiny that it failed to meet the already dismal cage-size requirements of the … Read more »
“Tea partiers” aren’t the only ones who’ve been fixed with the gimlet stare of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Social-action groups such as Greenpeace, the NAACP, and PETA have also been targeted by the agency, and PETA is calling on the U.S. Department of the Treasury to expand the recently announced criminal probe into the IRS’ … Read more »
