Woman Vivisected in London Store Window
April 25, 2012 by Michael Mountain
They dragged her along with a rope around her neck and pushed her down on a bench. It was feeding time for Jacqueline Traide and you could tell from the look on her face she was terrified. First, they stretched her mouth open with two metal hooks attached to a strap around her head. The [...]
Orcas Now Being Poisoned by Air They Breathe
April 25, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Scientists hold petri dishes over orca blowholes to capture samples of their breath. Photo by Pete Schroeder. It’s bad enough that the orcas of Puget Sound, off the coast of Seattle, are swimming in badly polluted waters. Now we’re learning they have a whole other challenge to deal with: air pollution. The Seattle Times reports: [...]
California Dairy Cow Had Mad Cow Disease
April 24, 2012 by Michael Mountain
The first case in six years of a cow with mad cow disease (properly called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) has been found in California. The cow was identified at a rendering facility as part of routine testing for the brain-wasting disease, John Clifford, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief veterinarian, told reporters today at [...]
And You Thought the Frappuccino Was All Veggie
April 24, 2012 by Michael Mountain
The “Vegan Frappuccino” at Starbucks sounded just fine. No dairy … all animal-free … right? Not quite. To get it to come out with that nice pink color, Starbucks uses cochineal, a food coloring that’s made of ground-up beetles. (Cochineal has been around a long time – your mother probably had a bottle of it [...]
App-ing Your Way around Yellowstone
April 24, 2012 by Michael Mountain
I thought one of the joys of visiting the great national parks was to leave our technobabble behind – at least for a few hours. Silly me! On your next trip to Yellowstone, you can concentrate on your cellphone rather than on the life around you. According to a new report: New smartphone apps enable [...]
Mickey Rourke to Set Up Sanctuary in Romania
April 19, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Actor Mickey Rourke is well known for his love of dogs. He was reportedly heartbroken over the loss of Loki, his Chihuahua, three years ago. Three weeks ago in Romania, where he’s filming his new thriller, Dead in Tombstone, Rourke decided to adopt a stray pet who had wandered onto the movie set. He’s calling [...]
Romney Donor Barbecued Dog
April 16, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Fred Malek, the president of Marriott Hotels, is a big donor to Mitt Romney. But Dogs Against Romney, a grassroots organization, has dug up a story first reported in the Washington Post six years ago, to the effect that Malek and a group of friends were arrested at at a park in Peoria in 1959 [...]
Pastor Brings Caged Lion to Church Sermon
April 10, 2012 by Michael Mountain
The pastor of a Texas mega-church used a live lion in a small cage and a baby lamb in his arms during his Easter Sunday service. Pastor Ed Young of The Fellowship Church of Grapevine called it a creative Bible lesson; humane groups call it cruelty to animals in a place designed to teach compassion. [...]
Ringling Circus Train Collides with Truck
April 10, 2012 by Michael Mountain
A Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train collided into a dump truck that had stalled on the train tracks near Knoxville, Tenn. The train was carrying 300 employees along with several circus animals. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, no injuries were reported. Whether that included the nonhuman passengers was not clear. Highway [...]
Why Little Brown Bats Are Sick
April 10, 2012 by Michael Mountain
The mystery of why millions of bats in North America have been dying over the past several years may be solved. White nose syndrome, as the disease is known, appears to be caused by a fungus from Europe, and was probably brought in unwittingly, perhaps by a tourist. More than 5.7 million bats have died [...]
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