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images-amazon / CC Did you hear? Dave Freeman, the author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die, has died, just like that, at 47! He fell and hit his head. Honestly! It just goes to show that you have NO idea how long you've got. And to keep the cheery theme alive, consider all the people who have become paralyzed by falling off their mountain bikes, etc.

Human Life v. Animal Life Posted by Pulin Modi at 12:47 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBacks ( 0 ) TAGGED: Ingrid Newkirk animal rights human rights When it comes to the suffering of humans and non-human animals, we all deserve to live out our lives in peace.

What's better than getting free stuff and helping animals through the Street Team? PETA's president, Ingrid Newkirk will tell you: Check out peta2.com/jobs for more info on animal rights internships and jobs. -Pulin

PETA president Ingrid Newkirk is clearly deranged. I mean, she thinks that chipmunks are more important than people.She also has some wacky ideas about the critters she has chosen to represent. Condemning Sharon Stone for demanding that a tarantula h

We don't always see eye-to-eye with the activism efforts of PETA's aggressive (nutjob) leader Ingrid Newkirk, but that doesn't mean we don't sometimes play for the same team. This week, Newkirk sent Stone (and her agent at ICM) a letter containing a truly thoughtful offer.

From Disney’s Finding Nemo, Sorry if I ever took a snap at you. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat. — Nigel the Pelican Well, the heron (near top of the food chain, baby!) pictured in the following piece, “Pictured:  The moment a mother loses a desperate battle to save her duckling from the jaws of a heron”, had no such apologies for the duckling or mama duck.

Gotta love PETA… • written by Kenneth Chris Johnson strikes the perfect tone, I think, in responding to the latest round of utter insanity to emerge from the animal rights organization. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has sent a proposal to the Somerset County commissioners to lease their jail for the world’s first Lobster Empathy Center.

ELMONT, NY — Horse racing fans hoping to see the first Triple Crown winner in 30 years will receive a special commemorative souvenir this Saturday at Belmont Park. Track officials announced that they will give Elmer’s Eight Belles Commemorative Glue to the first 10,000 Belmont Stakes ticket holders to enter the park.

The kentucky derby was sadly marred by a terrible accident in which the second place horse wound up losing it’s life. Eight Belles, who led for most of the race placed second and then , while slowing down  after the race, suddenly slipped and broke both legs.

The group is offering $1 million to the first person to create a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.