MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'animal cruelty'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:21:17 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4036889&cid=t_131312_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F10%2F05%2Foakland-cop-kills-dog-leaves-family-a-note-on-front-door%2F A typical Golden Labrador Retriever My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. Oakland Cop Kills Dog, Leaves Family a Note on Front Door. A burglar did not violate Mary Kate Hallock’s house in Oakland, Ca. on Sept. 28, but the false alarm at her home led to the death of her dog. In Hallock’s back yard, Oakland Police officer Victor Garcia shot and killed Hallock’s 11-year-old golden Lab. According to the note left for owner Hallock on the front door, her dog Gloria was shot after she “advanced on officers in a threatening manner.” Really? Gloria, whom Hallock had raised from a puppy, was arthritic and suffered from hip dysplasia. And then there’s the matter of three bullets. So one bullet wouldn’t have stopped an “advancing” elderly gold... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4036889 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:59:25 +0100 4036889 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3767049&cid=t_131312_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fcharo-wants-to-end-bullfighting-daily-do-gooder%2F Charo is now the spokesperson for PETA’s anti-bullfighting campaign. She has been against the cruel sport for years — she even has an anti-bullfighting song. Bulls are either starved or drugged before a fight, and sometimes they even have their horns sawed off. Charo is encouraging advocates to write a letter to José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s Prime Minister. photo: WENN.com Post from: BlissTree Charo Wants to End Bullfighting: Daily Do-Gooder (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3767049 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:30:58 +0100 3767049 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3592189&cid=t_131312_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fthe-daily-do-gooder-stephanie-pratts-be-nice-to-bunnies-campaign%2F Actress Stephanie Pratt from The Hills is doing good, PETA-style: She’s sponsoring their “Be Nice to Bunnies” campaign and iPhone app that tells you whether your favorite beauty products were tested on animals: Post from: BlissTree The Daily Do-Gooder: Stephanie Pratt's "Be Nice to Bunnies" Campaign (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3592189 Mon, 24 May 2010 15:09:52 +0100 3592189 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3487035&cid=t_131312_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F6aPUFQFeJbg%2F By Ilya ShapiroAs expected from the oral argument in U.S. v. Stevens last fall – when Justice Alito was alone in expressing some support for the government’s position – the Court on Tuesday upheld the First Amendment by declining to add a category of unprotected speech. This was not, after all, a case about the “human sacrifice channel” or Michael Vick’s greatest dog fights. Indeed, cruelty to animals should be and is punished everywhere in the country. Instead, at issue here was a broadly drawn “depiction of animal cruelty” statute that could have ensnared Spanish tourism brochures or hunting instructional videos. More fundamentally, the Court rightly rejected the government’s proposed weighing of the “value” of speech agai... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3487035 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:25:51 +0100 3487035 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3382875&cid=t_131312_109_f&fid=34730&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F03%2F101-dalmations-and-chihuahuasand.html In the New York Times this week we have a story entitled Animal Abuse as Clue to Additional Cruelties. In this article Ian Urbina discusses the problem of people who hoard animals and the connection between animal abuse and violence toward people.The link between animal cruelty and antisocial behavior is well known and was first studied in the 1960's by a researcher at Washington University by the name of Lee Robins. Dr. Robins followed the outcomes of children referred to a local mental health center for conduct problems, and learned that about one third of them developed antisocial behavior as adults. This is where we get the current conduct disorder criteria for antisocial personality disorder found in DSM-IV: firesetting, theft, running away, truancy and animal cruelty.States are passi... Shrink Rap blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3382875 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 3382875 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3236087&cid=t_131312_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F3FjQqgs_Rcw%2F Arizona is moving closer to excluding federally regulated research facilities from animal cruelty laws after a state Senate committee voted 4-to-3 in favor of a bill that would provide an exemption. The bill, 1159, would exclude both animal toxicology assessment and scientific experimentation, The Arizona Republic notes. You may recall that Covance, the big contract research organization, opened a facility in Arizona amid vociferous protest from animal rights groups (background). And Stephanie Nichols-Young, president of the Animal Defense League of Arizona, says Covance is lobbying in support of the bill. “Covance is new to our community and very different from the labs that have been in our state for decades,” she tells the paper. “Why would you give up this right for a... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3236087 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:41:34 +0100 3236087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2931256&cid=t_131312_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2009%2F10%2F27%2Fmad-men-atomic-secretaries-feminine-mistakes%2F My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up: Horse meat! And a thump on the head. We here at Woman Up are back on the “Mad Men” beat. An attractive, middle-aged widow from Roger Sterling’s past showed up at Sterling Cooper to 1) ask for help handling a public relations crisis at her dog-food company, and 2) cozy up to Roger to see if the spark is still there. It ain’t. At least, not on Roger’s side of the fence. I was not surprised, since this woman was demonized within her first five minutes on screen. She practically sneers in disdain at customers who recoil at the slaughter of horses. She points out that cows are beef and chickens are poultry. She wants Sterling Cooper to come up with a pseudonym for horse meat, blithely assuming that our only problem with hor... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2931256 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:33:59 +0100 2931256 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865635&cid=t_131312_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FrSburYu4ogE%2F Following up on David’s post about the Stevens “depictions of animal cruelty” case, my takeaway from this morning’s argument is that there’s not a single vote to uphold the law.  The closest the government came to sympathy for its position came when Chief Justice Roberts wondered whether, if a narrower statute proscribing the “crush videos” that were the ostensible target of this legislation, the Court might uphold this broad statute on its face but also welcome many as-applied challenges in instances of prosecutorial overreach.  (For a pithy discussion of facial versus as-applied challenges, noting that the Court generally favors facial attacks in First Amendment cases, see Roger Pilon’s foreword to this year’s Cato Supreme Court Re... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865635 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:42:57 +0100 2865635 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865640&cid=t_131312_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPPtL62VKEq0%2F The Supreme Court today is considering the case of United States v. Stevens, a challenge to a 1999 federal law outlawing depictions of animal cruelty. The government says that such depictions are “unprotected” speech. Many First Amendment advocates and news organizations are supporting the challenge to the law. It seems an easy enough case to decide, given the plain language of the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in the case of depictions of animal cruelty. Right? For a more substantive discussion of the issues in United States vs. Stevens, see the Cato Institute’s amicus curiae brief. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865640 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:49:35 +0100 2865640 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=730399&cid=t_131312_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2F133118793%2Fcockfighting_tests_first_amend.php tags: cockfighting, animal cruelty, First Amendment, free speech When I learned recently that my neighbors regularly engage in cockfighting and dog fighting (illegally, of course) I was thoroughly disgusted with them. But I learned just today that cockfighting is also streamed over the internet, which shouldn't be surprising to anyone who is familiar with the 'net, but nonetheless, I think it is absolutely disgusting and distressing, since it serves to underline the basic lack of compassion and empathy that some people have for animals in general, and for birds specifically. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=730399 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:35:30 +0100 730399