PeTA Drops 10-year Campaign Against Gillette

After 10 years of demonstrations, fundraising, a letter-writing campaign by children, and a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ended its feud with The Gillette Company in December.

Jeff Getty Fights for Life

Last December, AIDS victim Jeff Getty had a baboon bone marrow transplant to save his life and quickly became a target for radicals who oppose the use of animals in research.

Anti-Breeding Legislation Gains in Alabama

Several animal rights groups schedule conferences throughout the country to focus local activists on anti-breeding ordinances and to assist in drafting laws that provide police powers to animal control officials. Shortly after such…

USA Patriot Act also Covers Terrorist Acts of Radical Animal Rights, Environmental, and Anti-capital

On October 26, President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act into law.

Terrorism Law Strengthened But for Radicals, It’s Business as Usual

NAIA has worked for changes to the Animal Enterprise Protection Act for several years, and when President Bush signed the federal anti-terrorism act this summer, he brought those efforts to fruition. Along with provisions for protecting…

If the Radicals Can’t Get Us One Way, They’ll Try Another

By now, most of the field trial community is aware of the disastrous actions taken by the US Fish and Wildlife Service utilizing the provisions of the Pittman-Robertson Act. For those who may not be familiar with what has happened…

AIRLINE TRAVEL FOR ANIMALS IS IN JEOPARDY

Last summer, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced a bill that jeopardized the shipping of animals by air. The bill was reported to committee but went nowhere.

THE ADOPT SHELTER DOG ASSESSMENT REPRESENTS THE BEST PRACTICES IN ANIMAL SHELTERS

Editor’s note: Dr. Meloche is listed as an author on this paper because he was the director of the shelter at the time the work was done.  Dr. Mary Burch and many other volunteers left the TLCASC when they became extremely…

Muddlers Beware: The Case for Philosophical Extremism

The initial critical review of the book encompassed 12 pages. For purposes of presentation and discussion, I have summarized it into a more traditional review. In addition however, I present a critical review of specific aspects…

THE PRICE WE PAY

Schedule for Sunday, March 28, 2004

7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. Patti Strand, President, NAIA: Welcome and Introduction

NETHERCUTT DOMESTIC TERRORISM BILL TARGETS ANIMAL RIGHTS CRIMES

In March, Congressman George Nethercutt, currently a candidate for US Senate,* promised a “full court press against the terrorists” in his presentation to the NAIA “The Price We Pay” conference in Washington…

FEDS INDICT ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP, SEVEN RADICALS AS DOMESTIC TERRORISTS FOR ATTACKS ON RESEARCHERS

On May 27, 2004, following two years of intensive investigation, a New Jersey Grand Jury handed down indictments of a militant animal rights group and seven individuals for crimes against Huntingdon Life Sciences, a biological research…

NAIA APPLAUDS INHOFE BILL TARGETING ANIMAL RIGHTS TERRORISM

From our beginning in 1991, the National Animal Interest Alliance has worked for laws to protect animal enterprises from animal rights extremism.

NAIA CONDEMNS VIOLENCE, CHALLENGES ANIMAL RIGHTS LEADERS TO DO THE SAME

Today the Portland-based animal welfare group, National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA), is issuing a call to animal rights leaders worldwide to condemn the growing violence in their movement - violence whose perpetrators FBI director…

CBC-TV EXPOSÉ CASTS DOUBT ON “DOG FUR” STORY

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) investigative program “UnderCurrents” (16 January 2000) reported that the story broadcast on U.S. television last year about dogs and cats being “tortured” in China,…

Deception in the Name of Animal Rights

Nobody supports animal cruelty, which is why the images and videos of animals abuse that are regularly released by animal rights activists are so upsetting. But once you have seen enough of these animal rights campaigns, a disturbing…

JAMA article: NAIA president urges scientists to speak out

In its section on medical news and perspectives, the August 18 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association urged scientists to help the public understand the need for animals in biomedical research.

ANIMAL RIGHTS NEWS OCTOBER 98

A six-foot-tall yellow chicken and her companion entered a Kroger supermarket in Charleston, South Carolina, early in September and tagged packages of chicken with a message from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: “Warning!…

ANIMAL RIGHTS NEWS MARCH 1998

Clinton Colby Ellerman, 21, pleaded guilty to releasing more than 3000 minks on a Utah farm and was sentenced to two years in jail and fined more than $14,000 last December.

ANIMAL RIGHTS NEWS FOR JANUARY 97

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is one of many political actions groups now benefiting from the Combined Federal Campaign, the United Way charity drive for federal workers.