Subject: Animal Rights

• George Tiller link round up for Wednesday

  Troy NewmanOperation Rescue president Troy Newman wrote an op-ed in USA Today, uh, today calling the assassination of George Tiller "vigilantism" that "must be abhorred" but so should aborting fetuses. Meanwhile, USA Today's editorial board calls for protection of abortion providers.Fox 4's Tess Koppelman asked an anti-abortion activist about the denunciations of Tiller's killing by anti-abortion groups like Operation Rescue. Here's the answer she got: "... she said that because they profit from

  June 3, 2009

• Kansas City Strip

  August 16, 2001

• Best Pickup Joint for Liberals

  October 17, 2002

• It's What's For Dinner

  November 28, 2002

• Don't sell your dog to this guy

  Leave it to KCTV Channel 5 to get the gross new details on the Lawrence guy accused of sodomizing animals. Lawrence police arrested 20-year-old Cem Basoflas, a University of Kansas international student, last week and charged him with animal cruelty and sodomy. Now, Channel 5 gives us all the super-disturbing details in this interview with Midge Grinstead of the Lawrence Humane Society.Grinstead said the Humane Society was tipped off on the abuse when Basoflas brought in several animals with inj

  February 11, 2009

• Best Place to Score Some Pussy

  October 9, 2003

• KCI wins silver pooper-scooper

  The animal activists didn't get much love from the locals when their cave(wo)men came to town to protest Armani Exchange earlier this month. But last week PETA gave a Kansas City institution second place in its annual recognition of TV ads. So congratulations, KCI: You've been shitboxed!

  February 24, 2009

• Fueled Up

  September 15, 2005

• Say It Fur-Ever

  February 19, 2009

• The Pretenders

  February 19, 2009

• KC Pet Telethon

  February 12, 2009

• Hoof It

  September 25, 2008

• PETA Safari

  September 18, 2008

• Dog Day Morning

  May 29, 2008

• Forget Vick

  May 15, 2008

• sunday picnic

  May 8, 2008

• Meat is murder, he wrote

  May 8, 2008

• Vinca's Dog Day In The Park

  May 15, 2008

• The Real Pet Cemetery Nightmare

  Just in time for Halloween, the Humane Society gets ready .

  October 4, 2007

• Daring Young Men

  August 30, 2007

• Mall Abuse

  Just past the Olive Garden were animals that PETA said were treated worse than mall rats.

  May 17, 2007

• Animal Lover

  A rich PETA girl catches the meat patty's eye.

  December 21, 2006

• This Week We Love...

  May 25, 2006

• Offensive Patrol

  Letters from the week of

  March 16, 2006

• Cattle Call

  March 2, 2006

• Most Precious Blood

  November 24, 2005

• Hit the Deck

  This weekend, escape to Zoo York city.

  August 11, 2005

• Moby Great

  A 21-month tour hasn't taken its toll on Moby, who can't wait to start crafting his sequel to Play.

  September 28, 2000

• Backwash

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  March 24, 2005

• Mean Old Frisco

  UniverSoul's hip-hop circus can't shake old-fashioned allegations.

  November 6, 2003

• Animal Farm

  Leavenworth County disregards a cruelty case.

  October 25, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of October 12, 2000

  October 12, 2000

• The Cat's in the Bag

  Gracie succumbs to Independence's free cat-trapping program.

  July 27, 2000

• On his case

  A animal rescue operator says a PitchWeekly article has brought undue state regulatory attention.

  May 25, 2000

• Pursuing the cruelty

  March 2, 2000

• Disposable pets

  Animal activists and advocates charge that animal cruelty cases aren't getting the attention they deserve.

  March 2, 2000

• Charlie Arnot and big agriculture featured in this week's The Pitch

  Mr. ArnotMake sure to pick up a copy of The Pitch this week for the feature story on meat consultant Charlie Arnot. In Peter Rugg's article, Arnot comes off as a Karl Rove for carnivores for his work in, among other places, Arizona:Paul Shapiro, senior director of the Humane Society of the United States, says Arnot was hired as a consultant by the "No on 204" campaign. "It was all the big agribusiness companies putting money into the group called the Campaign for Arizona Farmers and Ranchers. Th

  April 29, 2009

• As Big Ag’s grade-A meat promoter, Charlie Arnot cooks up opposition to industry reform

  April 30, 2009

• Jog the Dog

  June 11, 2009

• Tire Marks and Dog Barks

  June 25, 2009

• Pit bulls become pound puppies: "Please take us hoooooome!"

  The 407 dogs seized in last week's dog-fighting bust, the largest in U.S. history, caused the Humane Society of Missouri to open an emergency shelter. Now they're trying to find organizations to take a few of the former fighters off their hands. "We need to hear from rescue groups right now if they're in any way interested and willing to accept one or more of these dogs," said Debbie Hill, vice president of operations and incident commanders of the emergency rescue shelter. "Because this was th

  July 17, 2009

• PETA and KC Parks lock horns over the First Amendment

  ​The Sprint Center is no stranger to protesters from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Last year, a young lady wearing nothing but bikini-bottoms, pasties and a whole lot of orange body paint, crouched in a cage outside the venue to show the activists' disdain for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. This year, the animal rights' organization wanted to make a more lasting impression about the alleged mistreatment of circus animals. But the Kansas City Parks and Recrea

  August 19, 2009

• A Black Tail Affair

  August 20, 2009

• Falling off the vegetarian wagon

  ​Attached to the debate over concentrated animal feeding operations and conditions at slaughterhouses is the growing trend of reduced-meat or meat-free diets. We've once again reach the point in the cycle where a vegetarian diet is being advocated from a moral viewpoint about sustainability and doing as little harm as possible to the environment and our fellow creatures. Beth Mendenhall, a senior at Kansas State University, makes that point in a recent editorial in the K-State Collegian: Bacon

  September 3, 2009

• PETA's invisible elephant in the room

  ​Remember the crying baby elephant statue that PETA was trying to gift to the city to protest the circus's treatment of animals? Well, that didn't work out. Instead, they got a permit to display Ella PhantzPeril, as the thing is called, on the corner of Grand and Pershing. Not exactly the city's busiest corner."We were hoping for a spot with more foot traffic," said Jill Oakley, a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals intern from British Columbia, Canada. When I saw her at 5:30 p.m., Oak

  September 15, 2009

• In Shawnee Mission Park, Jason Miller’s hunt for attention is on

  October 8, 2009

• A hunter's perspective on the S.M. Park deer controversy

  When members of Bite Club of KC made their case to stop the deer harvest planned for Shawnee Mission Park, they often conjured gruesome imagery. Ken Payne, president of Heartland Suburban Whitetail Management​Addressing the Johnson County Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners in recent months, animal rights activists predicted terrified, half-dead deer, with arrows stuck in their anatomy, bolting into traffic or dragging their bloodied bodies onto family doorsteps. They suggested that

  October 8, 2009

• Tony Gonzalez gets naked for PETA

  ​Former Kansas City Chief Tony Gonzalez is no furry. The Atlanta Falcons tight end is swearing off fur coats and stripping down for PETA as part of the "Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Tony G. told the AJC that he's buff because he's a vegan. He added: "We should be protecting animals, not sacrificing their lives for the sake of fashion or luxury. October and I have changed many of our habits in light of the inhumane treatment of animal

  November 11, 2009