| June 6, 2005 | -
New Jersey was planning to try six animal-rights activists on “animal enterprise terrorism” charges.
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Reuters
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| March 6, 2005 | - The U.S. Navy was looking into whether sonar confuses dolphins, causing them to surface too quickly and get the bends.
| Source:
Boston.com
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| March 12, 2004 | - One of the Britons released from Guantánamo Bay charged that he was tortured physically and psychologically. "After a while, we stopped asking for human rights," he said. "We wanted animal rights."
| Source:
BBC
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| November 21, 2003 | - An animal-rights group fed ham to 70,000 sheep that were destined to be eaten in the Middle East.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| September 22, 2003 | - Seven thousand mink were set free in Finland.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 26, 2003 | - The Animal Liberation Front set 10,000 minks free near Seattle; all but 1,000 were caught within a day.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 14, 2003 | -
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a global boycott of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
The director of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., refused to hand over the medical records of a dead giraffe, saying that the doctor-patient confidentiality rule applied “in principle” to animals.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Queen Elizabeth II was photographed wringing the neck of a wounded pheasant which a hunting
dog had dropped at her feet; British
animal-rights types were appalled. At church the next day, the Queen wore a red hat accented with pheasant feathers.
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