Los Angeles Indymedia : Activist News

Orange County, CA: In an anonymous communique received by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, the Animal Liberation Front claims to have ruined the paint jobs on an executive's luxury automobile and home in retaliation for his company's role in supporting animal testing. Paul Moravek, of Fullerton, is owner of Moravek Biochemicals, a known supplier of notorious contract animal testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), Europe's largest such company.

Full announcement: Animal Liberation Front Strikes the OC by North American Animal Liberation Press Office

August 21, 2007 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced on the steps of City Hall that Los Angeles Animal Services was the number one and largest pet adoption agency in the nation. That's wonderful news except for the fact that it's completely untrue. LA Animal Services isn't even the largest or best in the immediate area.

Full story: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa fails Los Angeles' animals, then lies about it by Ann Angeleno

". . . My first experience with him was on paper. In 1985, I read his book, In Defense of Animals, in which he talks about "speciesism," a prejudice similar to racism and sexism in which humans believe they are superior to other species. Singer argues that nonhumans are of equal value to humans and worthy of equal consideration and that an animal's ability to feel pain should give him protection under the moral umbrella that humans typically reserve for themselves.

". . . When I heard that the normally reclusive Singer--who lives in Australia and New Jersey and who is called the Father of the Animal Rights movement--would be speaking at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles about animals and art, I figured why not take him out for a bite? . . . "

Full story: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The Controversial Peter Singer by Charlotte Laws

Save Our Dogs is a grassroots effort to save working dogs from AB 1634, the mandatory spay/neuter bill. We strongly support their efforts and their goal and hope you will join with us to prevent this bill from passing.

The real problem in California animal shelters is not too many puppies. It is too many adult dogs who are abandoned. Mandatory spay/neuter won't make owners take responsibility for their dogs, so where is the benefit?

Full story: Peta working to outlaw pets! by Karen

In astounding news earlier this week the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services announced that they are basically closing the shelter doors to owner relinquished animals. Their rationale behind this move as per Ed Boks the General Manager is to "fine tune" "the population during the annual spring/summer crush of neonatal turn-ins." Read that, "we have no more room because we've been warehousing animals all year to keep our euthanasia rate artificially low to try to make me look good.

Full story: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa closes City animal shelters by Ann Angeleno