It Takes Two

 

Done. Next!

Send us some of that leftover schwag, and not the dusty crap y'all were selling over at the Cafe shop. We want that prime shit: three pink gestation crate iPhone covers, a veal crate playground set, and some battery cage keychains.

In Soviet Russia

Tiny screech owl misses you. But ban on U.S. chicken imports no problem, my friends.

How to tag this?! We don’t really do wildlife issues, or environmental, outside the broad range of available animal agribusiness effects debacles. Oh WTF, chickens and bingo.

It's Official!

First of it’s kind for a city-wide resolution. The West Hollywood City Council voted this evening to condemn the use of battery cage housing for hens used in egg production. You should send a nice note of thanks to Councilmembers Jeffrey Prang and Abbe Land.

Connie King, first to speak on Resolution 07–3488 during the public comment period, read a statement from Alicia Silverstone who couldn’t make it to the meeting but asked to have her support for the resolution on record. Paul Shapiro, Director of the HSUS Factory Farming Campaign, spoke next to illuminate the striking difference between the pastoral images on egg cartons—and in egg cartoons advertising—vs. the reality of existence in a wire cage with less living space than a sheet of paper as endured by hundreds of millions of battery-caged hens in the US.

A few minutes into the Council meeting we were interrupted by a txt msg from The Tower Princess bemoaning the sad sight of 30–Minute Meals chick Rachael Ray, her pudgy little arms heavily laden with the makings of something called a Monte Cristo, an omni sammich stuffed with dead pig and turkey parts, cow cheese, then dipped in eggs and fried in butter. WeHo just told her, “Now go make us a cage-free one.”

Lock 'em up, Joe

Sheriff Joe Arpaio may turn out to be AZ animals’ best badge-sporting friend. And he’s got your room ready and waiting in the Maricopa County Jail facilities if you’re bent on abusing and neglecting them, then leaving them to slowly die alone and in pain. Repeatedly.

“The horse was sick on the ground in deep pain for 36 hours,” Arpaio told CBS 5 News. "According to the employees that talked to our detectives, she said the horse is going to die anyway. We don't have $200 in our school budget, so just let him stay there and die.”

Can you imagine a Sheriff Joe in LA, Ventura, Riverside, Orange, and San Bernardino County—a sheriff who runs his own Animal Safe Hospice and cuffs animal abusers to the stainless steel sofa for the night? No citiation for the round-file, no tip-offs in advance of his own Animal Cruelty Investigative Unit jump-out, no negotiation. Just jail.

Can you imagine a Sheriff Joe in Kings, Merced, and Tulare County? We can. So for the next few days we’re outta here like last year for the final Prop 204 push before Election Day, and what an uphill battle it’ll be when you’re polling better than 70%. Back on Wednesday to drop in on a little get-together you might check out, too, if you

• are even mildly interested in getting habeas corpus and the First Amendment off life-support when it comes to animal protection, rights, or welfare advocacy,


• anticipate using the USPS to convince 10,001 people to forego spending $1 each on something animal-use industry related,


• are not cool with the whole stainless steel sofa thing.

Thanks for /.ing Dr. Greger!

Not! All the activity over your way has the Bird Flu book site running like a one-legged chick in a Foster Farms grow house. Nice. Real nice. But at least you're talking up the issue. :)

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To be an animal sacrifice.




This video was shot at 8644 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles CA, Oct. 12, 2005. Ritualistic slaughter of animals is illegal in the city of Los Angeles and claims of "religious freedom and/or persecution" don't harbor an exemption. You can stop criminal activity such as this from repeating in 2006. It's not too late.

Call the LA County Dept. of Public Health's Environmental Health Division at (213) 351-7893 and ask them to do their job.
Call LA Animal Services at (213) 847-1417 and ask them to do their job.
Call the organizers and paticipants at (310) 652-1533 and ask them to stop.
Attend a demo on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006 from 10AM-12:30PM at 8644 Pico Blvd., 90035.