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Several celebrities, including vegetarian Alyssa Milano, Anderson Cooper, Lawrence Bender and Howard Ruby will be honored at the National Wildlife Federation’s “Voices for Wildlife” gala on June 15 for their efforts to protect wildlife.

The 75th anniversary event of NWF is being recognized by the Environmental Media Association’s “Green Seal of Events,” because it has taken measures to ensure the event is environmentally conscious.

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Bob Barker recently cut the ceremony ribbon at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, California to symbolize the reopening of the rescue organization after being damaged from storms that hit the area last December.

As part of its gratitude, the center has named one of the sea lions “Barker” after the lifelong vegetarian and animal rights activist.

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“While I understand those natural reactions to the killing of these creatures, I think we owe Zuckerberg some plaudits, not only for reminding people that eating meat involves the killing of animals, but also for recognizing that it’s morally dubious to simply pass the “dirty work” off to an anonymous slaughter plant worker. Indeed, we should ask ourselves if there’s really much of an ethical difference between killing an animal (what Zuckerberg is doing) and paying others to kill animals for us (what most of us do).”

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Ron Artest has never hesitated to lend his face to helping animals, such as when he helped PETA urge pet owners to spay and neuter their 4-legged friends. So when Jimmy Kimmel decided play a joke on Artest by tricking him to do a PSA for a phony animal charity called “Critters United,” it was all too easy to get a few good laughs.

Of course Artest loves animals, but even the greatest animal lover in the world might be a little uneasy working with the unusual co-stars of the PSA, which include a python, a large bird, a possum and even a, ahem, “bear.”

Watch the video below for four minutes of hilarity.

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“I’ve seen the video footage released by Animal Defenders International that shows the owners and trainers with HTWT as they hit elephants as hard as they can with bullhooks and use electric shocks on the animals’ bellies. You can hear a grown elephant who bellows in pain and a baby who cries out while being jabbed repeatedly in the mouth and hit over the head. Please don’t allow the reputation of the fair to be tarnished by its support of cruel elephant rides.”

—Joan Jett, in a letter to organizers of the San Diego county fair. The fair is offering elephant rides with animals provided by the entertainment company, Have Trunk Will Travel. HTWT has been found by undercover animal rights investigations to use cruel methods to train its animals, including the use of bullhooks, a practice recently banned in Atlanta.

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The Humane Society of the United States has received a prestigious “Telly Award” for its coverage of a factory farm ran by Smithfield Foods.

“Undercover at Smithfield” highlighted severe abuse of pigs at one of the nation’s largest pork producers  by exposing how pigs are confined in small, cramped gestation crates that allow them little movement.

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The doctor is in and has some advice for giving dogs the best care in the world.

Michael Vartan, who plays Dr. Tom Wakefield in the TNT drama series HawthoRNe, is starring in another role as animal advocate in a new PSA for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

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Lipton finally agreed to stop animal testing in an attempt to prove its product cured human health problems. Now another major tea company has been discovered to conduct similar tests that are not required by any regulatory authorities to prove the tea’s safety.

Not to mention it would probably be a lot easier and effective to have people drink bottles of its product to see if they got better.

Brace yourself for the details of what Nestea puts mice through that’s even worse than drinking its flavorless diet Green Tea.

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