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  • “You know, I got grounded once for wearing a T-shirt that expressed that very sentiment to an animal-rights rally,” I said.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Predictably, the images of a smiling Kate holding a half dozen dead game birds infuriated the same animal-rights groups that routinely denounced the royals for their love of hunting.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • The crates have raised the concerns of animal-rights groups and elected officials around the U.S. with some states moving to ban them.

    Big Litters Put Farms in Hog Heaven Marshall Eckblad 2011

  • Chagrined, the winery withdrew its $200,000 pledge to the animal-rights group.

    Beef Industry Carves a Course Stephanie Simon 2011

  • It came about after Mr. Hadrick learned Yellow Tail wine had donated $100,000 and pledged $200,000 more to the Humane Society of the U.S., an animal-rights group that has embarrassed the cattle industry with undercover videos of slaughterhouse abuses.

    Beef Industry Carves a Course Stephanie Simon 2011

  • About 180 chimpanzees at a federal primate facility in the New Mexico desert are at the center of an impassioned debate between the National Institutes of Health and the animal-rights community.

    Chimps: Life in the Lab The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • One controversial new law can hold animal-rights activists criminally responsible for protests that cause the target of their attention to be fearful, regardless of the protesters' intentions.

    As Federal Crime List Grows, Threshold of Guilt Declines Gary Fields 2011

  • In response to attacks on researchers by animal-rights activists, Congress in 2006 passed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

    The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Sets an Unusual Standard for Crime Gary Fields 2011

  • About 180 chimpanzees at a federal primate facility in the New Mexico desert are at the center of an impassioned debate between the National Institutes of Health and the animal-rights community.

    Chimps: Life in the Lab The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The cattlemen aim to train at least 20,000 more, in the hope of building a forceful counterweight to the animal-rights advocates who denounce beef production as inhumane, and the vegetarian activists who reject beef consumption as unhealthy.

    Beef Industry Carves a Course Stephanie Simon 2011

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