self.document.write('<div style="margin : 0px; width : auto; height : auto; border : solid 0px; overflow : hidden; font-size : 1em; font-family : \'Arial\'; color : black; background : inherit;"> <div style="padding : 3px;" > <ul style="margin : 0px; padding-left : 15px"> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123026376&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1001" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Dump Punxsutawney Phil And Get A Robot, PETA Says</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> The animal rights group wants organizers of a famous Pennsylvania festival to replace the world\'s best-known groundhog with an animatronic stand-in. Organizers say Phil is "being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania." </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://npr.org" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">npr.org</a> - 2010-01-27 17:35:14 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=3106014306ce4b2d7d51dd36929b5dce" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Got Ethics?: Animal Rights Groups Take on the U.S. Dairy Industry</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Undercover videos reportedly show the ugly realities at "factory dairy farms." Animal rights - dairy farms - Livestock - Animal welfare - Business </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://abcnews.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">abcnews.com</a> - 2010-01-26 19:51:45 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2010/01/26/nl-byrne-terrorism-012610.html?ref=rss" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Pie hit should earn PETA \'terrorist\' label: MP</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> An MP from Newfoundland and Labrador says Ottawa should look into whether PETA, an international animal-rights group, should be labelled a terrorist organization. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://cbc.ca" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">cbc.ca</a> - 2010-01-26 18:48:53 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/l-TYwDQfEOg/story01.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >The future of Catalonia: Of bulls and ballots</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> <p>Catalonia is set to have a big role in Spain’s politics <p>THE glorious, if gory, sight of a Spanish fighting bull charging at a cape-waving man in a sequinned suit may soon disappear from Catalonia. In a decision as much about Catalan identity as about animal rights, deputies in the local parliament agreed in December to take up a petition to ban bullfighting. It looks set to come into law during the 2010 season. <p>The ban is about much more than friendliness to bulls, though it is part of a political game that resembles a bullfight. Whenever Catalans wave the red cape of a distinct identity, a chunk of middle Spain lowers its horns and charges. The Madrid-based media splenetically denounce Catalan nationalism. Just as left-wingers in Britain saw a ban on fox-hunting as a way of spiting toffs, so some Catalans see a ban on la corrida as a way of taunting (other) Spaniards, an especially popular pastime in an election year. Never mind that Catalonia’s own traditions involve similar torments for the hapless animals. ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://economist.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">economist.com</a> - 2010-01-07 18:50:55 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/d6426b7bdd614d3bbde3bc8a10b7f0b3/02-12-2009-01-55/Bull_ruling_delay_heartening" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Bull ruling delay \'heartening\'</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Animal Rights Africa is "heartened" at the decision to postpone a ruling on the ritual, bare-handed killing of a bull at the Zulu first fruits festival. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://news24.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">news24.com</a> - 2009-12-02 11:55:27 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feeds.sfgate.com/click.phdo?i=0d61fa8af60b8c6ce72c4ac0680afa16" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Berkeley activists can sue over federal raid</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Berkeley activists can sue federal agents for their role in a 2008 raid in which officers seized their computers and records in search of alleged threats by animal-rights advocates, a federal judge ruled Monday. The activist group Long Haul Inc. can try to... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://sfgate.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">sfgate.com</a> - 2009-12-01 07:47:44 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=83b1549fa4c10ed6cfbadf09d8423788" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Planned bowhunts for deer in Va. parks called ÂÂ\'barbaric\'</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Planned deer hunts in two Fairfax County public parks are riling animal-rights advocates and residents who say the county\'s new bow-and-arrow deer-culling program is inhumane and dangerous. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://washingtonpost.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">washingtonpost.com</a> - 2009-11-17 06:27:16 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010269366_apuslabanimalcomplaints.html?syndication=rss" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Feds to check animal abuse claims at Utah labs</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Federal officials say they\'ll look into complaints by the animal rights group PETA about the treatment of animals at University of Utah research facilities. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://seattletimes.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">seattletimes.com</a> - 2009-11-13 17:34:01 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113548704&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1001" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >High Court Hears Animal Cruelty Video Case</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on the Obama administration\'s efforts to reinstate a 10-year-old ban on the production and sale of graphic videos of animal cruelty. The case pits animal-rights groups and the government against free-speech groups and hunters organizations. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://npr.org" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">npr.org</a> - 2009-10-06 21:31:57 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20091002/NEWS04/310020013/1001/NEWS" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Granholm expected to sign farm animals\' bill</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Michigan farm animals confined in small cages would get more space under legislation that Gov. Jennifer Granholm is expected to sign. The Legislature on Thursday finished passing a bill that reflects a compromise between farmers and animal rights activists. The measure bans the use of certain cages and stalls for egg-laying chickens and pregnant pigs in about 10 years. Crates for veal calves are phased out in three years. The animals will have to have enough room to stand up, lie down, turn around and fully extend their limbs. Most states have no laws addressing the health and welfare of farm animals. But animal welfare groups have successfully waged ballot campaigns in California and other states. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://lansingstatejournal.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">lansingstatejournal.com</a> - 2009-10-02 17:41:18 GMT </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div>');