StumbleUpon | Michiko280's URL reviews

Editorial - Standing, Stretching, Turning Around - NYTimes.com

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:55:56 -0700

NY Times endorses Prop 2, which would ban veal crates, gestation crates, and battery cages (the most intensive confining systems in factory farms).

It encourages all Californians to vote YES on Prop 2 in November, and for other states to enact similar measures!

VegTalk Podcast: Prop 2 - The Final Month | Vegan.com

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:28:19 -0700

I highly recommend listening to this update on the Prop 2 Campaign by Paul Shapiro (HSUS) and Erik Marcus (vegan.com)... especially if you live in California!

Yes on Prop 2!!!

Sitting pretty, but for how much longer? The barrow-load of orphaned baby orang-utans | Mail Online

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:23:53 -0700

Gilly Lloyd, who runs the project for Borneo Orangutan Survival International, said: 'We keep them for up to eight years.

'Most of them are found as orphaned babies and have to be totally rehabilitated with 24-hour care. Every day they go into the forest to learn how to be orangutans.'

Their plight is down to the clearance of rainforest, poaching and the illegal pet trade.

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: News and videos from the evening broadcast NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: News and videos from the evening broadcast- msnbc.com

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:20:15 -0700

The Crisis in Haiti lingers after some 1 million people were displaced after devastating hurricanes this summer. People are starving with little food and often no clean water.

myFOX Los Angeles | KTTV FOX 11 | KCOP My13 | FOX 11 News | myFOXla.com

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:03:23 -0700

"On Sunday night, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi hosted a gala event for the YES! on Prop 2 campaign. The celebrity-studded party benefited the YES! on Prop 2 campaign, providing support for the ballot measure. "

Meat must be rationed to four portions a week, says report on climate change | Environment | The Guardian

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:55:30 -0700

"The report goes much further than any previous advice after mounting concern about the impact of the livestock industry on greenhouse gases and rising food prices. It follows a four-year study of the impact of food on climate change and is thought to be the most thorough study of its kind."

32 Monkeys Die in Research Lab from Accidental Overheating | Vegan.com

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:11:52 -0700

"Thirty-two research monkeys quarantined at a lab in Nevada were accidentally killed in May due to overheating, officials for Charles River Laboratories Inc. confirmed for the first time on Thursday. The longtail macaques to be used in the research of drugs 'were literally cooked to death by a heating system failure.'"
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20080807-1540-nv-researchmonkeydeaths.html

MRSA in Pigs | Vegan.com

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:49:23 -0700

MRSA causes more US deaths than HIV-AIDS.

Meet MRSA -- methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- a nasty, antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria that appears widespread in North American hog farms. This past month, the bacteria was found in pigs at 70 percent of the hog farms tested in Iowa and Illinois. MRSA was associated with more than 18 thousand deaths in the United States in 2005.

DogFighting: It didn't end with Michael Vick & A Search for Compassion

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:17:30 -0700

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in dogfighting or cockfighting.

A Rescued Goat Gets a Chance for a Normal Life - New York Times

Thu, 08 May 2008 05:33:08 -0700

If you haven't seen it already, check out this amazing NY Times article about Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary director Jenny Brown and Albie the 3-legged goat.