PETA opposes tribute to fried chicken
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Animals rights advocates are squawking at a measure that would make fried chicken Kentucky's official picnic food.
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New Jersey allows cruelty  to farm animals by failing to ban practices such as castration  without anesthetic, animal rights activists said on Wednesday  in a lawsuit that might help set national standards for the  treatment of livestock.
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By MICK HINTON World Capitol Bureau  The measure would limit the attorney general's power to sue the poultry industry.   OKLAHOMA CITY -- A bill that would curb the power of the attorney general to sue poultry companies was stalled in a House subcommittee on Monday.    Rep.
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Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan has urged China to &quot;have a heart for dogs&quot; after thousands of the animals have been killed to fight rabies outbreaks, the animal rights group PETA said.
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Lok Pui-king won&#39;t buy a frozen, supermarket chicken. The housewife, 69, likes her chicken fresh, chosen from the hundreds of birds cooped up in metal cages at the
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Protesters urged ticket-holders outside a Toronto cinema on Tuesday to boycott a documentary about a vicious animal cruelty case in which three friends filmed the skinning of a live cat as an alleged art project.
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Big animal rights groups do not share the same mission, but they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving.
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THE farmer-led opposition to the reintroduction of the White- Tailed Sea Eagle to the countryside exposes them to the charge they are anti-conservation.
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The pastor at Anchorage First Free Methodist Church was mystified. Why was the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals chastising him? No animals are harmed in the church's holiday nativity display. In fact, animals aren't used at all.
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Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. meat company, said it will investigate allegations by the animal-welfare group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that chickens were abused and tortured at two of its chicken processing plants.
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By Jon Ericson, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa  Sep. 10--CEDAR FALLS -- A City Council committee will revisit the issue of urban chickens Monday after a motion to make keeping chickens legal in Cedar Falls generated an uproar.
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A bird at the center of a controversy that impacts the nation&#39;s multibillion-dollar energy industry should not be included on the endangered species list, a panel of federal wildlife officials has concluded.
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By Chris Casteel, The Daily Oklahoman  Sep. 23--WASHINGTON -- The nation's cattlemen, concerned about legal action taken in Oklahoma regarding poultry waste, are pushing a House committee to pass a bill that would prevent the regulation of animal manure under federal environmental laws.
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Animal rights campaigners urged lawmakers in the southern California city of San Diego to introduce a ban on foie gras, in the latest US challenge to the beloved delicacy of gourmands.
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McDonald&#39;s Corp. said on Wednesday it is studying whether to require its chicken suppliers to use a more humane slaughter method following a proposal by an animal rights group that holds shares in the fast-food chain.
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Some beef producers are challenging the Beef Act, saying it forces them to pay for advertising that they do not support.
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Tyson Foods will no longer use antibiotics with its chickens.