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Los Angeles Rams linebackers Bobby Wagner and Takkarist McKinley tackled an animal rights activist who disrupted the team’s game against the San Francisco 49ers during Monday Night Football. Just before halftime, a member of Direct Action Everywhere, an animal rights group, who were attending Monday night’s game ran across the 49ers Levi’s Stadium with a device releasing red and pink smoke to raise awareness about a massive pig factory farm allegedly hiding its abuses inside the facility. The nonprofit reports Allison Fluty and Alex Taylor were cited, with one still in police custody, after running onto the field at separate...

Berlin (AFP) - Little piggies go to market, but in Germany they also go to court. In a legal first, animal rights activists have asked Germany's top court to ban the practice of castrating young male pigs without anaesthetic -- with the piglets themselves listed as the plaintiffs. The painful procedure has become increasingly controversial in Europe and has been banned in Sweden, Norway and Switzerland. Farmers argue that the castration of piglets a few days after birth is necessary to prevent "boar taint", the occasional occurrence of a foul smell when cooking pork from male pigs past puberty.

Rescued piglets served up as sausages to the firefighters, who rescued them...

Oxford University Press Bans Use Of Pig, Sausage Or Pork-Related Words To Avoid Offending Muslims 14 Jan 2015 The Oxford University Press has warned its writers not to mention pigs, sausages or pork-related words in children's books, in an apparent bid to avoid offending Jews and Muslims. The existence of the publisher's guidelines emerged after a radio discussion on free speech in the wake of the Paris attacks. Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, presenter Jim Naughtie said: "I've got a letter here that was sent out by OUP to an author doing something for young people. "Among the things...

NAIROBI — Kenyan demonstrators released two dozen piglets at the gates of parliament and poured blood on the pavement Tuesday to protest demands by newly elected lawmakers for a wage hike. Police, who fired tear gas to disperse the protestors and beat others with truncheons, scurried after the pigs as they scampered through the grassy area surrounding the parliament. "We will not allow members of parliament to increase their salaries at will," shouted one of the protest organisers Okiya Omtatah. "They are greedy just like the pigs we have brought here," Omtata added. ... Kenyan lawmakers are already some of...

While companies across the country are downsizing, some in the fashion world have decided that it's time for a bit of upsizing. This spring, the cheap chic emporiums, Target and Forever 21, will launch plus-size lines for teenagers. Forever 21's line, Faith 21, will have sizes ranging from XL-2X, while Target's Pure Energy line will go up to a size 30. It's about time, said several shoppers scouring the crowded racks of a Forever 21 branch in downtown Manhattan, New York, one recent afternoon. "I would love to be able to shop in one store with my friends that are...

The state board that investigates lawyer misconduct says it is on record pace for disciplining Minnesota attorneys this year. The Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board says the number of sanctions, ranging from public reprimands to disbarments, is up and it is only spring. If the trend continues, it could lead to the highest number of sanctions leveled against Minnesota lawyers in over five years. St. Paul, Minn. — Many of the complaints the Lawyer's Board investigates get dismissed. Those include a large number filed by clients upset simply because their attorney lost. Every year, however, there a few attorneys the board...

SCARSDALE, N.Y. -- As Scarsdale High School is set to graduate another senior class Friday, the actions of a few freshman students are grabbing all of the attention. And it's not the positive kind: male students coaxing two female students to have sex with each other, capturing it on videotape, and e-mailing it throughout the school. "It's very upsetting that this is what our students and children have been doing," said one Scarsdale resident. Officials who have seen the tape tell NewsChannel 4 the two 14-year-old girls appear intoxicated. One of them is seen trying to convince the other to...

National Organization for Women will be proud. Their advertisement for males being dumb, drunk and depressing appeared on TV as THE MAN SHOW. They’re lewd, loose and loony. They act out flatulence and then spark fun (?) at the exercise. One of their favorite pastimes is asking viewers whose butt crack is showing center stage. Is it that of a construction worker or a Hollywood celeb? Inquiring minds wanna know. THE JERRY SPRINGER SHOW is old hat to THE MAN SHOW. But with the two of them gagging nationwide week after week, terrorists won’t have much to do in taking...