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Beyond uncool. Way, way beyond uncool.
I read a piece last night about a sibling rivalry that troubled me, so much so that it lead me to ponder a broader question. But, first, the troubling story: a New York teen was arrested for killing her 9-year-old brother’s hamster during what was described as domestic dispute. The 19-year-old girl is accused of squeezing and choking the four-ounce animal to death, then throwing it across the street.
This is beyond disturbing for several reasons. First, how callous does one have to be to even jeopardize a 9-year-old’s beloved pet, much less kill it — regardless of what the much younger sibling had done? Next, many murderers first experience the act by killing pets. That puts this teen’s alleged actions squarely within the realm of sociopathic tendencies.
Or does it?
Justin Bieber Supports PETA
A person in an elephant costume with a bloody bandage wrapped around a “wound” greeted parents coming to pick up their kids at a Pennsylvania elementary school yesterday.
Needless to say, many of the parents — and their children — were horrified by the sight of a bloody “elephant.”
Who was behind the demonstration? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The group said that the idea behind the elephant’s appearance was to convince kids and their parents to boycott the Ringling Bros. & Barnum Bailey Circus, which will perform in Pittsburgh next month, according to UPI. Continue reading »
PETA has named the winners in their Third Annual Cute Vegetarian Kids contest.
Grace Jenks of Park City, Utah was awarded their prize for Cutest Vegetarian Girl. Grace, a homeschooled 9-year-old, went vegan this year. The World’s Cutest Vegetarian Boy title was awarded to Perry Martijena, a 9-year-old from Jersey City, New Jersey. Continue reading »
A program meant to teach kids about raising animals should be an animal activist’s dream. Until the fourteen kids who raised a lamb named Marcus voted to have the wooly little critter sent to the slaughterhouse.
Lamb chop anyone? Continue reading »
Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Wendy Michaels 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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