Subject: Animal Rights

• Farm Aid

  Activist preaches compassion at Green, Changing Hands

  March 26, 2009

• Killing Bandit: The dumb Dog Days of AZ Summer, and the even dumber Sheriff Joe, aka, Sand Land's Deputy Dawg.

  August 15, 2007

• Sheriff Joe Still Paints Himself As an Animal Rights Hero, While Ignoring Allegations of Animal Abuse Against the MCSO

  October 1, 2008

• A Pack of Trouble

  With the Humane Society refusing to accept healthy stray dogs, the county pound is expected to overflow

  November 9, 1995

• Who Pooped on the Scoop?

  A debate rages over a new corporate-sponsored animal-adoption program. As usual, the Arizona Republic prefers to be muzzled.

  November 30, 1995

• Dog Dead Afternoon

  SPCA official has retriever put to death before owner knows what's pup

  April 25, 1996

• Poison Penance

  Man whose tainted hot dogs sickened cat loses bid to be tried by jury for "moral turpitude"

  October 10, 1996

• The Truth About Cats & Dogs

  March 27, 1997

• Second Helpings

  May 21, 1998

• Frank Discussion

  August 13, 1998

• Out, Out, Damn Sport!

  Voters seem certain to do what the Arizona Legislature has repeatedly refused to do--ban cockfighting, and hasten the death of a way of life

  October 8, 1998

• Animal Fights

  'They're fighting for their careers, for their reputations, for their money.'

  January 4, 2001

• Letters

  From the week of January 18, 2001

  January 18, 2001

• Legal Beagles

  Animal rights activists sue researcher

  August 2, 2001

• Letters

  From the week of December 6–12, 2001

  December 6, 2001

• Letters

  Letters from the week of August 12, 2004

  August 12, 2004

• BEST VEGGIE BURGER

  Pita Jungle

  September 30, 2004

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, May 25, 2006

  May 25, 2006

• PETA Uses Story of Boy Who Killed Dad to Condemn Hunting

  November 11, 2008

• PETA to Put on Sexy "Human Barbeque" at Phoenix Convention Center

  A female PETA volunteer will strip to almost nothing but body paint and lie on a pretend barbecue grill on Thursday for a protest at the cattle industry's Phoenix convention. PETA seems to enjoy using human flesh to make their point -- the group just received a bunch of publicity over a Super Bowl ad (pictured) that was deemed too racy.

  January 28, 2009

• PETA "Barbecues" Woman to Promote Veganism. Tasty Drumsticks!

  Jonathan McNamara Covered in black and red paint, this "barbecued" woman was meant to remind meat-eaters that "all animals have the same parts." Right... The faux Q was PETA's protest of the Cattle Industry's Phoenix convention. Paul Layland's sold hot dogs on the streets of downtown Phoenix for a year now. Just recently he was appointed the southeast corner of Monroe and 5th Street to hawk red hots to the hungry lunch crowd. Little did he know that it would lead him to working adjacent

  January 29, 2009

• Fashion Nouveau

  December 4, 2008

• Pit Bull Awareness Day

  October 23, 2008

• Ingrid Newkirk

  November 15, 2007

• Monkey Love

  The blarney-lovin' buzzard's craw is full o' scuttlebutt from Covance's monkeyshines, trigger-happy Tasers, and Jello Biafra's Stinkweeds wig-out

  December 7, 2006

• Fur Balls

  Bowling brings out the beasts

  August 4, 2005

• Bottle Racket

  December 9, 2004

• Covance: Beagle March Organizer is Known Liar

  Camilla Strongin, spokeswoman for Covance, took issue with our Tuesday post about a planned march of beagles this Sunday in protest of the medical testing company in Chandler: Maybe you should do a little research on Jan McClellan before providing her cause such ligitamcy. I have included a story that ran in the Republic back in 2006 when Jan was caught giving phony names in an attemp to hide her association with CAC. WWAIL is an animal rights activity that has resulted in the liberation of

  April 17, 2009

• The Veal Deal

  Farm animal activist Kari Nienstedt just says no to beating up barnyard pals

  September 25, 2003

• Ruffing It

  Barktoberfest benefit celebrates four-legged friends

  October 10, 2002

• The Big Stink

  Fur is flying over whether one of the most popular animal charities in town has gone to the dogs

  September 26, 2002

• For Beta or Worse

  Kids picket for the rights of fish-but not the ones on the menu

  August 22, 2002

• Animal Crackers

  A new book reveals a conservative speechwriter's more sensitive side

  August 22, 2002

• Naked Jungle

  PETA's a no-show for a much-hyped cage match with Barnum & Bailey

  July 11, 2002

• License to Quill

  Tinkerbell's death prompts a federal inquiry at the Phoenix Zoo

  May 2, 2002

• Hold On a Minute!

  Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony 'Save the Whale' campaign

  December 13, 2001

• Hamburger Helper

  Rescuers battle 'killer buyers' to save unwanted horses

  August 30, 2001

• Pet Peeves

  Public pressure gives the campaign for no-kill animal shelters a new lease on life

  August 9, 2001

• Resurrection

  After a 70-year hiatus and a confrontation with the world, the Makah tribe resumes its communion with the gray whale

  July 12, 2001

• Screwing the Pooch

  Dr. Michael Berens has been vilified by animal rights activists for drilling holes in beagle puppies. Is he on the path to curing brain cancer?

  January 4, 2001

• Animal House

  County officials dog Arizona Humane Society

  September 7, 2000

• Clearing Samples

  Moby returns to electronic music, and he's ready to Play

  December 2, 1999

• BLOOD SPORT

  COCKFIGHTING IS ILLEGAL IN 46 STATES. SIXTEEN OF THEM CONSIDER THE PRACTICE A FELONY. IN ARIZONA, IT'S ENTERTAINMENT.

  January 19, 1995

• THE NOBLE HUNTERSAFARI GUIDE MARK SULLIVAN BELIEVES THAT TO PRESERVE THE EARTH'S GREATEST BEASTS, SOME OF THEM MUST DIE

  July 7, 1993

• Fifty-Five Dogs in Navajo County "Euthanized by Gunshot;" Official Says Incident "Horrible" but Humane

  Euthanizing 55 dogs with guns on a rural Arizona property was the right decision for the circumstances, says the director of public health services for Navajo County. Dr. Wade Kartchner tells New Times this morning that the dogs, which were living in filth with their human masters on a rural property, would likely not have survived the three-hour trip to the animal shelter because the county's cage trucks don't have air conditioning. Besides, the dogs would have been euthanized, anyway, he says

  June 30, 2009

• PETA Offers Governor Brewer a Financial Solution; It Wants to Make the Capitol Building Look Like a Beautiful Salad

  www.greendaily.com PETA Wants to turn the Arizona State Capitol into a billboard featuring its famous "Lettuce Ladies"​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent Arizona Governor Jan Brewer a letter today, offering to rent space on the outside walls of the state capitol building and use it to advertise its veggie-driven agenda.PETA wants to pay the state to drop a giant banner down the front of the capitol with the organizations "PETA Lettuce Lady," and the phrase "Lettu

  August 5, 2009

• ASU Students Join PETA's Fight to End Classroom Experiments on Animals

  www.demotivateus.com​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has a new ally in its fight to end certain types of experiments performed on animals in classes at Arizona State University: the students themselves.Well, not all the students, just the ones with the same general furcoat-hating, meatless mentality as PETA.

  October 8, 2009

• PETA Vilifies Ronald McDonald for Halloween

  PETA's "Evil Ronald" mask is probably the easiest way to get your kids to never want McDonald's food ever again.​Anyone looking for a last-minute Halloween costume? Well, if you don't mind dressing as a rabid-looking, sadistic clown from hell, the folks at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have got the mask for you.As part of its "McCruelty" campaign, PETA is distributing "Evil Ronald" masks for Halloween, which depict the iconic Ronald McDonald as a maniacal monster with fangs

  October 15, 2009

• Cur Couture

  November 19, 2009

• Hundreds of Lobsters "Murdered" at Tucson Event After PETA-Endorsed "Humane" Killing Method Falls Through

  www.motivatedphotos.com​A new device developed by a British inventor that is supposedly kills lobsters "humanely" before they're cooked.But when PETA attempted to bring the device to Arizona last weekend for a lobster bake fundraiser for the Child and Family Resource Center in Tucson, things didn't quite go according to plan and PETA was forced to sit back as hundreds of lobsters hit the boiler the old fashion way -- alive.

  November 20, 2009