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Overton: Game Over
By Kelly Overton, Op-Ed about NFL Michael Vick’s dogfighting indictment. I am a sports fan. I know enough about sports to understand that excelling as a quarterback in the NFL takes more than talent and hard work — it takes intelligence — the intellectual ability to analyze complex situations and make decisions...

Fatal Fights - Dogs On The Underground Circuit
Gypsy is found stumbling along Gaston County's main highway in North Carolina. Her right front leg is shredded. Flesh falls from her face, exposing teeth and gums in a perpetual bite. But the battered pit bull can no longer bite anyone. Her lips and nose have dissolved into pus. This dog with no face is a familiar sight...

Why I'll Never Be A Zoo Mom
Soccer mom. Backstage mom. No problem. But the day my son inevitably pleads "Mommy, can I go on the zoo field trip?" the answer will be no. I want my son to see the animals. Just not at a zoo, where wild creatures devolve to abstract still lifes tossed into an urban panorama. But how do you tell a child...

Tourist Beware: Bullfights & Blood Fiestas
Bullfight posters adorned the town of Marbella, Spain. As testament to the country's medley of old and new, headlines promised a life-and-death saga starring female matador Christina Sanchez. Greg McMurry and Rhonda Gunner nabbed ringside seats to the fight in Puerto Banus...

Tension Under The Big Top
A public forum before a legislative committee does not ordinarily draw a mob on a Wednesday afternoon in Maine. Yet on February 19, 2003 nearly 100 people squeeze into an Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee hearing to hiss or hurrah through three-and-half hours of deposition. At one point, all eyes...

The Myth Of The Cowboy: Rodeo Cruelty
Dawn's light broke across the rocky divide as horse and man moved in smooth cadence. He patrolled the land with a gunslinger's grit defending woman, child and cow from predators and gnarly no-goods. This valiant cowboy of America's Wild West... Cut. This guy never existed. Hollywood crafted John Wayne...

Behind The Sequins & Smiles: Animals In Circuses
People rarely link the word slavery with animals in circuses. Most recall their kid's-eye glimpse of elephants on platforms and airborne tigers inside fiery hoops. Everyone is entitled to this innocent entertainment, right? Animals are part of the circus tradition. Take a closer look...

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		ANIMALS USED IN ENTERTAINMENT Circuses, Rodeos, Zoos, Bullfights, Animal Fighting... "Elephants live in confinement, and they are beaten all the time when they don't perform properly. When I became disturbed about the treatment of the elephants, the continual beatings, including the baby Benjamin, I was told, 'That's discipline.'" — Congressional testimony fromTom Rider, former Ringling Bros. barn man

Overton: Game Over By Kelly Overton, Op-Ed about NFL Michael Vick’s dogfighting indictment. I am a sports fan. I know enough about sports to understand that excelling as a quarterback in the NFL takes more than talent and hard work — it takes intelligence — the intellectual ability to analyze complex situations and make decisions... Fatal Fights - Dogs On The Underground Circuit Gypsy is found stumbling along Gaston County's main highway in North Carolina. Her right front leg is shredded. Flesh falls from her face, exposing teeth and gums in a perpetual bite. But the battered pit bull can no longer bite anyone. Her lips and nose have dissolved into pus. This dog with no face is a familiar sight... Why I'll Never Be A Zoo Mom Soccer mom. Backstage mom. No problem. But the day my son inevitably pleads "Mommy, can I go on the zoo field trip?" the answer will be no. I want my son to see the animals. Just not at a zoo, where wild creatures devolve to abstract still lifes tossed into an urban panorama. But how do you tell a child... Tourist Beware: Bullfights & Blood Fiestas Bullfight posters adorned the town of Marbella, Spain. As testament to the country's medley of old and new, headlines promised a life-and-death saga starring female matador Christina Sanchez. Greg McMurry and Rhonda Gunner nabbed ringside seats to the fight in Puerto Banus... Tension Under The Big Top A public forum before a legislative committee does not ordinarily draw a mob on a Wednesday afternoon in Maine. Yet on February 19, 2003 nearly 100 people squeeze into an Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee hearing to hiss or hurrah through three-and-half hours of deposition. At one point, all eyes... The Myth Of The Cowboy: Rodeo Cruelty Dawn's light broke across the rocky divide as horse and man moved in smooth cadence. He patrolled the land with a gunslinger's grit defending woman, child and cow from predators and gnarly no-goods. This valiant cowboy of America's Wild West... Cut. This guy never existed. Hollywood crafted John Wayne... Behind The Sequins & Smiles: Animals In Circuses People rarely link the word slavery with animals in circuses. Most recall their kid's-eye glimpse of elephants on platforms and airborne tigers inside fiery hoops. Everyone is entitled to this innocent entertainment, right? Animals are part of the circus tradition. Take a closer look...
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