“Animal Rights” on The Daily Caller

Whenever the circus is in town, you can reliably find two kinds of people following the elephants around: pooper-scoopers and animal rights activists. (more)

“Red meat blamed for 1 in 10 early deaths,” blared the Drudge Report last week. The linked news article referred to a study by Harvard scientists finding that unprocessed red meat and processed meat like bacon and hot dogs are linked to a higher risk of mortality. (more)

As a rule, Americans don’t eat horse meat. We dropped the habit after World War II, but 14 percent of the world’s population still has a taste for it. That’s more than one billion people. Should Americans be allowed to serve that market? (more)

“She saw a bullfight in Maravatio, and was sickened by it, but got her sketches just the same.” – from Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose (more)

Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback Michael Vick will join the Humane Society of the United States in speaking about the horrors of dogfighting with students of two high schools in New Haven, Connecticut, on Tuesday. (more)

The screen icon Miss Bardot, who is working as an animal rights campaigner said she had been asked to run for the president in 2012 by the Ecology Alliance party. The party campaigns for the animal rights and against the issue of halal meat by the Muslims. (more)

Hundreds of animals — birds, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, turkeys, chickens and geese — were rescued from a home in Highlands, Harris County, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday. (more)

Authorities say a man in custody for killing four cats, lured the cats to his window with a pot roast and then shot at them with a BB gun. (more)

A schoolgirl burst into tears after an animal rights protester sneaked into her back garden stole her pet rabbit and left a note sneering: ‘Bunnies should be out socialising.’ (more)

A former University of Colorado student convicted of taping her boyfriend’s dog to a refrigerator was sentenced Friday to 30 days in jail. (more)

Meat producers should use certain antibiotics only to assure animal health and stop using the drugs to increase production and promote growth, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday. (more)

MONROE, Ohio – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) made an offer to rebuild the King of Kings statue at the Solid Rock Church in Monroe that the church’s pastor said he will not consider. (more)

CLEVELAND — A dairy farm worker was charged Wednesday with 12 counts of cruelty to animals after a welfare group released a video it says shows him and others beating cows with crowbars and poking them with pitchforks. (more)

Even the most ardent bunny-huggers can’t deny what hunting does for wildlife. In a headline about the current state of wildlife in Africa, Conde Nast Traveler begrudgingly and sarcastically proclaimed, “Perhaps the best way to save wildlife in Africa is to kill it.” (more)

Test tube food is out and ultra-super-local and natural is in, according to a humble little something called, “The World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards.” (more)

A West Virginia man is facing animal cruelty charges after police raided his pet store and discovered that he allegedly killed a variety of animals by placing them alive inside a freezer. Aaron Ashley, 27, is facing the felony rap in connection with “animals being frozen alive and starved to death,” according to the below criminal complaint filed last week. (more)

Thai protesters garnered plenty of attention this past week when they turned their demonstrations into a blood sport. After the country’s president resisted pressure from 10,000 anti-government “red shirts” on Sunday, leaders of the anti-government rallies promised they would: (more)

Dog owners face a new pet “tax” in a government initiative to tackle the menace of dangerous dogs. (more)

TORONTO — The Canadian Parliament’s restaurant will serve seal meat this week in support of hunters battling a European Union ban on seal products, a Liberal senator said Monday. (more)

So much for “being good.” (more)