Five California thieves with the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) have been charged and face felony sentences in connection with the theft of five pigs from a farm operated by Smithfield Foods in Beaver, Utah Deseret News reports. What is significant is that Deseret News also points out that the founder of DxE,…
A study published Friday in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment authored by Geologists with the University of Cincinnati reveals no evidence of natural gas contamination in Ohio drinking water from counties where recent oil and gas drilling took place due to their proximity to the Utica Shale formation. According to Science Codex, the scientists…
Surprise! Surprise! So-called clean or renewable energy sources could result in slaughtering a number of endangered species. That is the conclusion of a report issued last week by the green group Environmental Progress. The Daily Caller points out that prior to the Environmental Progress study’s release, Clean Energy Wire also issued a manuscript during April…
A thought-provoking, well made documentary tells the story of two Dutch film makers who examine the many criticisms well-fed Westerners have about genetically modified foods (aka GMO’s). The movie also reveals some of the scientific ideas surrounding the alteration of foods people tend to think are natural. The film also takes to task the many…
WUWT readers may recall that WUWT spearheaded an effort to help Ridd’s legal fund, earning nearly $100,000 in donations in two days. According to Ridd, in an email to me: They gave me a set of new allegations a few days after the successful gofundme campaign in February and we have been fighting them ever […]…
A little over forty years ago, gas prices were skyrocketing, but now they’re comparatively cheap and oil is plentiful. What happened? It was an American success story – hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. Watch PJTV‘s Glenn Reynolds interview Gregory Zuckerman, author of The Frackers, about the benefits of hydraulic fracturing.
The people behind the comedy website Funny or Die produced a video in conjunction with the group Peel Back the Label showing how ridiculous and deceptive food labels like All Natural and Non-GMO are. You can watch it here (H/T AGWEB)
US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue is the subject of scrutiny as part of a lawsuit brought by People for the Extortion, Torture and Abuse of human beings (PETA) against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Specifically, the lawsuit singled out Alvin’s Bayou Wildlife Park, a roadside zoo located near Galveston County, Texas. The group…
In 1903 President Teddy Roosevelt advocated a new way to conserve America’s wilderness – one that depends on partially on hunting and gun sales. Unfortunately, decades later, that system is starting to break down.
Piping plover birds are located primarily on the northeast coast of the United States and are classified as an endangered species. A unique habit of the feathered creature is that they lay their eggs usually in beach sand. Their egg-laying season takes place around late April or early May. The eggs start hatching the bird…
During November of last year, animal rights activists in Germany migrated to the forests of Upper Lausitz near Germany’s border with Poland hoping to prevent a cull of a wolf pack that slaughtered area farmer sheep populations. According to the UK Telegraph, wolves were almost considered extinct in Germany during the early part of the…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a pretty sturdy defender of free speech rights online. Therefore, in many ways, it is no surprise that EFF decided to take up a case in which PETA alleges their free speech rights were violated when Texas A&M deleted comments by the group about the university lab’s use of dogs…
