A 140 year-old lobster was set to be served for dinner at New York restaurant but fortunately animal activists were able to dissuade the restaurant from cooking the lobster instead returning him to sea.

This lobster has outlived every human on earth! It would have been tragic for any human to eat him just to fulfill some sick ego.

Way to go everyone for pitching in and speaking up to help save this little guy from a horrific death that sadly many experience every day.

I know this is probably old news for all you Internet news buffs out there but starting January 1, 2009 eBay has banned the sale of ivory!

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) recently discovered that two-thirds of the online trade of the protected wildlife takes place of eBay and poachers take the lives of over 20,000 elephants a year to meet the world's demands. They launched a huge campaign against eBay which culminated in the unprecedented victory against the trade.

The ivory trade is horrific so it is wonderful to hear that eBay will no longer aid this cruel and deadly practice thank to the hard work of animal rights activists.

Sometimes I wonder how effective we are as activists when we urge people to go vegan. Perhaps the idea of going vegan overnight is scary or confusing to people or as this video demonstrates, maybe the people we are reaching out to don't even know what a vegan is.

The website Change.org allows the Obama administration a window into public opinion that will help them shape their priorities for change over the next four years. Activists have submitted the idea to rescind the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) and we can help make this happen. Animal rights activists have posted the following idea on Change.org that is waiting for your vote:

"The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was enacted in November of 2006 at the behest of the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries. AETA restricts the freedom of speech and assembly of animal and other social justice activists. It unfairly brands as terrorism any activities that cross a state line and interfere with the operation of an animal enterprise or of any entity that deals with one. Such activities may include website posts, peaceful vigils, nonviolent civil disobedience, undercover investigations, and whistle-blowing."

Please take a few moments to vote for this issue and help bring national attention to this profound violation of our constitutional rights. You can even add a widget to your blog that allows others to vote on this important issue.

Vote now to end the AETA!

The video does a great job of addressing the major arguments FOR eating meat. Take a look at it and send this post to a friend or family member when your done. Who knows, it may change what you have for x-mas dinner this year.

Demonstrations will be held against Ungar Fur's every Friday at 1pm in Portland Oregon.
The group organizing the campaign released this statement recently:

"We have started a dedicated and focused anti fur campaign against UNGUR FUR's. We are here to educate the public on the process in which the fur goes through to end up on the bloody racks at a fur shop. how this fur was once a part of a living creature with its own life."

The federal government has introduced plans to round up all wild horses in America and send them to slaughter. Some 31,000 wild horses are set to be rounded-up and killed in a mass murder. The project is intended to protect "grazing land used by the cattle industry(link)."

Activists are calling for the government to save the wild horses but so called experts claim the horses are invasive species. Perhaps the cattle are just as much of an invasive species as well. The motivation behind the killing is cloudy however because the government now says that the horse meat will be sold to "foreign markets."

If people stopped buying beef, the cattle industry would collapse and the horses would be saved. Please speak out against the needless slaughter of 31,000 wild horses.