In the Blogs: Eggs, Vegangelicals, Toxicity, Tuna, and "Sanctuary" Slaughter

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-09-28 00:14:00 UTC
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Egg industry spin, the not-so-pretty side of "dolphin-safe" tuna-killing practices (which are obviously anything but "safe" and humane for tuna, but which are deadly for other animals too), a campaign from an animal welfare organization causing frustration among both its usual supporters and its usual critics, "vegangelicals" in the Huffington Post, an influx of babies at Poplar Spring, continued demonization of animal rights and environmental activists by the U.S. government, a "sanctuary" that kills (i.e., not remotely a sanctuary), the continued push to end toxicity testing on animals, and a look at recent reports on the feeding of chicken waste to cows -- all this and more appears in the following roundup. So read on!

An Extra-Ordinary Fall Day at Poplar Spring from Invisible Voices

Who You Callin' Vegangelical? from Ari Solomon at Huffington Post

Military Training Drill: Environmentalists Take Hostages, Murder Marines from Green Is the New Red

The following three posts are on the same topic, and these advocates did an excellent job of exploring the problem from various perspectives:

Alternatives to Eggs from Animal Place Sanctuary

Continuing Down the Long Road to End Toxicity Testing on Animals from the ALDF Blog

Florida's Python Predicament from Animal Blawg

Sexism and Misogyny in the Movement from the Abolitionist Approach

"Dolphin-Safe" Tuna Is Just as Bad! If Not Worse from Vegansaurus

The World's Worst Sanctuary from Veg Blog (welcome back to the blogosphere, Ryan!)

Smokey and the One-Arm Bandit BBQ Team from Suicide Food (most disturbing supposed-to-be-appetizing image I've see in a while; and my apologies that Suicide Food posts haven't been making it into recent roundups -- something went screwy with my Google Reader, and I was missing them myself)

Finding Vegan Friends from Vegan Soapbox

Cows Fed Chicken Waste from Animal Place Sanctuary

Yolk on Its Face, Egg Industry Tries to Buy Good PR from Digging Through the Dirt

The Besmirching of Someone Who Dares to Talk Animal Rights from Elisa Camahort

Note: Because I realized, after a couple hours of gathering these links, that I had nearly three dozen to share with you as a result of accidentally skipping last week, I'm splitting the roundup into two separate lists, this one today and another tomorrow or Wednesday.

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Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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