Agweb.com reports that donations made toward animal rights groups are on the rise as animal abusing factory farmers quake in their boots. It seems that charitable donations to animal rights groups rose 11% in 2007 with part of the increased going toward what they called "extremist groups like PETA." If PETA is considered an extremist group I would love to hear what they think of the ALF.

This is great news for the movement and really bad news for its opponents. What I found really interesting was that the HUSA raised $130 million in 2007! I didn't realize they raised that much money, way to go!

Check out the article for the latest dollar figures from some of your favorite animal rights groups, I think you may find that it makes you happy.

The latest and the greatest, here's this week's round-up.

- Animal testing does not work.

- Don't swat! Mosquitoes sing love songs.

- Veganism and the end of global warming.

- Tyson CEO steps down due in part to poor sales.

- Pressure builds to end Japan's whaling.

- PETA seeks Top Chef to make "faux gras."

- The term "owner" replaced with the term "guardian" in animal related ordinances.

- ACTION ALERT! Fort Dix burns, stabs, shoots, and breaks the limbs of live pigs and goats.

As always, something to keep you smiling...real live dragons!


Have a great week!

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.

Joan Jett is a tough vegan badass rocker icon that defies all stereotypes. She burst onto the music scene and proved that women could write, produce, and perform rock music better than most men. She is an advocate for a vegan diet which keeps her strong, healthy, and looking like she hasn't aged a single day since 1980.

In a wonderful interview she gave recently she was asked about people who say that vegans/vegetarians are weak and her response was perfect:

"People who say things like that are the weak ones for eating animals when it is completely unnecessary to do so in order to sustain life. To give [in to] the urge to eat flesh just because you can—now that’s weak! It’s like eating your dog or cat. It may take something like bird flu or mad cow disease to convince people to stop killing animals for food."

A daring young harbor seal waddled over two-miles of dry land to break into a fish hatchery and gorge herself on fish all night. It is believed that the seal had to cross a highway and a mini-golf course to reach the hatchery. She was later netted and taken back to the sea unharmed. Hatchery workers said:

"It's a good sign that she was healthy, a lot of the seals we see are on the beach are not in such good shape.''

In a surprising move two weeks before he leaves office, President Bush orders the protection of 195,280 square miles ocean. The protection order will help save vital ecosystems in the Pacific from overfishing, including areas home to keystone species like sharks.

Bush also ordered the restriction of oil and gas exploration near numerous remote islands in the central and western Pacific that have long been considered U.S. possessions. Bush has been weak on global warming so perhaps this is his way of throwing environmentalists a bone.
Perhaps he's trying to salvage some of his horrible legacy.

I believe in being brutally honest and critical of our leaders. I also believe in giving credit where credit is due, and it seems that Bush really deserves some thanks for this his one moment of clarity.

KFC employees have been caught on camera pulling chicken out of the garbage and putting it on a tray to serve to customers. The footage was taken by an employee that claims that this is a common practice at KFC. Apparently, employees stop cooking and throw everything away before the restaurant closes so if anyone orders before the doors close they just reach in the garbage and get it back out.

Here's the infamous video.