Read more animal rights stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4842/animal-rights.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:29:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73298/peta-drove-me-to-kill-my-cat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBuried on the last page of an article about the shiny, happy PETA interns (or, as one passerby called them, “those crazy PETA people”), the Washington Post relates a story of how they contributed to one cat’s untimely demise. Lydia Netzer, who lives next door to the Norfolk interns, says...http://www.newser.com/story/73298/peta-drove-me-to-kill-my-cat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Nov 2009 11:40:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72438/70-year-old-lobster-deserves-freedom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRestaurant writer Ryan Sutton has dined on his share of lobsters, but the plight of one venerable crustacean has left him without an appetite. "Larry" is a 70-year-old lobster at New York's Oceana restaurant awaiting its fate as a $275 entree. Sutton admits he's never given much thought to the...http://www.newser.com/story/72438/70-year-old-lobster-deserves-freedom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 23 Oct 2009 11:53:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71669/peta-peeved-over-paris-pig.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPETA has found a new poster child for its ire: Paris Hilton, who recently adopted a $4,500 miniature piglet. Despite naming the animal “Princess Piglette,” TMZ notes, PETA claims the "wretched example" treats her pets like “disposable accessories”—“as disposable as her friends,” to be exact, Digital Spy reports....http://www.newser.com/story/71669/peta-peeved-over-paris-pig.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 Oct 2009 6:47:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71182/vick-plans-tv-documentary-series-on-his-life.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Vick will star in an eight-part documentary-style TV series about his life for BET. The Michael Vick Project , due in 2010, will look at Vick’s comeback with the Philadelphia Eagles along with his troubled childhood and—of course—the time he spent running a dogfighting ring. "I just want...http://www.newser.com/story/71182/vick-plans-tv-documentary-series-on-his-life.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 14:51:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69177/hippo-hunt-divides-colombia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPepe the Hippo has become a divisive figure in Colombia. When the animal escaped from his birthplace near Pablo Escobar’s pleasure palace, the government and some environmentalists organized an intense hunt that eventually ended when a team of more than a dozen soldiers killed the runaway beast. But some animal...http://www.newser.com/story/69177/hippo-hunt-divides-colombia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 10:59:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69176/sorry-glenn-beck-senate-confirms-sunstein.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for a bureaucratic White House post, has been confirmed in a 57-40 Senate vote largely along party lines, Politico reports. Sunstein, who will monitor federal regulations as director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has been under attack by conservatives over...http://www.newser.com/story/69176/sorry-glenn-beck-senate-confirms-sunstein.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 9:50:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69055/say-hello-to-glenn-becks-latest-target.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNow that Glenn Beck has helped take down Van Jones, he’s set his sights on another Obama appointee: Cass Sunstein, would-be head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Conservatives initially praised the choice of Sunstein, because some of his writings have a libertarian bent, Newsweek reports....http://www.newser.com/story/69055/say-hello-to-glenn-becks-latest-target.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 10:45:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68346/rights-group-films-workers-grinding-chicks-alive.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted male chicks by tossing them live into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor. Chicago-based Mercy for Animals said it shot the video...http://www.newser.com/story/68346/rights-group-films-workers-grinding-chicks-alive.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 01 Sep 2009 14:08:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67879/vicks-fans-critics-plot-rallies-ahead-of-eagles-game.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Vick’s first NFL game since his conviction for dog fighting has triggered strong reactions among animal and civil rights advocates in Philadelphia and they plan to let him know it, AP reports. Before he steps onto the field today as the Eagles’ quarterback, the Pennsylvania SPCA will throw a...http://www.newser.com/story/67879/vicks-fans-critics-plot-rallies-ahead-of-eagles-game.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 1:28:08 CDT