New Delhi: For raising her voice to oppose cruelty to animals and her staunch commitment to a vegetarian diet, veteran Bollywood actress Hema Malini has been named the person of the year by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The Dream Girl on behalf of PETA recently wrote a heartfelt appeal to the minister of Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, urging him to take immediate steps to end...
06:50 PM, Dec 21, 2011
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The animals in the city zoo are still living under the threat of virus infection. Chances are high for the spread of the canine distemper virus, which claimed the lives of four jackals in the city zoo and affected the remaining four. Realising the seriousness of situation, the zoo authorities approached the Forest Department for its approval for euthanasia. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests R Raja Raja Varma confirmed...
08:54 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Washington: The owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has agreed to pay a record $270,000 fine to settle charges it violated federal animal welfare laws. Feld Entertainment Inc of Vienna, Virginia, did not admit wrongdoing or violating US Department of Agriculture regulations in settling the dispute over handling of performing animals, it said in a statement on Monday. "We look forward to working with the USDA...
03:09 AM, Nov 30, 2011
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala State Poultry Development Corporation (KEPCO) has put forward an idea before the City Corporation to get rid of the tonnes of animal waste in the city. A proposal to set up a Carcass Utilisation Plant (CUP) at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore on 50 cents of land has been mooted by KEPCO and it is under the consideration of the Corporation. The KEPCO officials had done...
08:33 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Minneapolis: McDonald's Corp said it has dropped a Minnesota-based egg supplier after an animal rights group released an undercover video of operations at the egg producer's farms in three states. The video by Mercy for Animals shows what the group calls animal cruelty at five Sparboe Farms facilities in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado. Its images include a worker swinging a bird around by its feet, hens packed into cramped cages,...
07:59 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Chennai: Anjali Sharma has been feeding Chennais street dogs leftovers for the past 15 years. While that may not surprise you, considering the number of animal lovers Chennai has, the fact that she has a Maruti Omni dedicated for this feeding service, sets her apart. She and her van are the reason that nearly a 100 homeless Indian dogs, in different nooks around the upmarket Harrington Road stretch and those...
12:13 AM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: Donkeys and mules, beasts of burden, and often a subject of ridicule. Not much attention has been focused on these over worked animals. At construction sites, these animals work with some of the poorest people in society carrying bricks, sand and heavy supplies. For over a decade, Jean and Bob Harrision have been running the 'Asswin project' - to provide medical care to sick and injured equines. Jean...
08:34 AM, Oct 22, 2011
London: Experts will help men and women harness their animal magnestism, drawing on research into different flirting techniques worldwide, under an initiative of London's Natural History Museum. The experts rely on lessons from the animal kingdom to show how to impress potential mates with the right kind of signals. Many people find the subtle cues and unwritten rules of flirting difficult to follow, even though it is a basic human...
12:29 PM, Sep 20, 2011
New York: When author Justin Torres was writing 'We the Animals', he had no idea he was writing his first novel nor, as could be expected, that he would become the publishing industry's latest sensation. Though Torres has been writing for years -- currently as a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford -- it is only since his debut novel went on sale in September that he has begun to taste...
11:59 AM, Sep 20, 2011
New York: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, no stranger to attention-grabbing campaigns featuring nude women, plans to launch a pornography website in the name of animal rights. The nonprofit organisation, whose controversial campaigns draw criticism from women's rights groups, said it hopes to raise awareness of veganism through a mix of pornography and graphic footage of animal suffering. "We're hoping to reach a whole new audience of people,...
07:42 AM, Sep 19, 2011
London: Pop icon Michael Jackson kept lots of animals because it brought him closer to God, says brother Jermaine. The 'Thriller' hitmaker who died from acute Propofol intoxication in 2009, was famed for his eccentric lifestyle, which included turning his home into a theme park and befriending a monkey named Bubbles, but his brother Jermaine insists there was nothing strange about his behaviour, reported Contactmusic. "Animals are loving - what's...
02:11 PM, Sep 17, 2011
Los Angeles: George Clooney's ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis is the latest celebrity to strip down for animal rights group PETA, unveiling her campaign and her naked body in Beverly Hills on Tuesday. Shoppers on ritzy Rodeo Drive got an eyeful of Canalis as she posed next to her nude, black-and-white campaign portrait for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The Italian TV host, who split from A-list actor Clooney earlier...
11:36 AM, Sep 14, 2011
Hamburg: Germany's health minister says he's hopeful that the worst of an E coli outbreak blamed on sprouts is over - but he is warning that the number of deaths, now at 33, may still increase. Minister Daniel Bahr's comments came after health officials announced on Friday that they had traced the outbreak to sprouts from a farm in northern Germany. They also lifted a warning against eating cucumbers, tomatoes...
11:42 PM, Jun 11, 2011
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