A news report on stray dog attacks instigated the Supreme Court into action, producing two starkly different orders that exposed tensions between public safety, animal welfare, and India's legal framework.| Global Voices
It emerges in late March, it mates and feeds, and then in May returns to its very long hibernation.| Global Voices
The Supreme Court’s reversal on relocating stray dogs highlights the need for humane, science-driven policies balancing health and coexistence. #straydog #SCrulings| Policy Circle
Lately, I forced myself to watch the quite popular Paul Watson : Une vie pour les océans [Paul Watson: A... Read More The post “Captain” Paul Watson: The Grand Illusion appeared first on Truth About Fur - The Blog!.| Truth About Fur – The Blog!
Stop Animal Exploitation Now! demanded accountability after the university reported several animal welfare-related violations in its research facilities.| The Temple News
Sunbury, PA – Two women from Massachusetts and several dozen supporters from around the country traveled to a small central Pennsylvania town for the first major hearing in a felony case stemming from their arrest last November. The ‘Northumberland 2’ – Celeste Legere and Cara Mitrano – face a litany of PA state charges after […]| UNICORN RIOT
In the ‘The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience’ written by permaculturist Rob Hopkins, founder of said Transition Movement, he nostalgised about a time that he himself is too young to remember, telling the tale of a family close to Totnes, the first ‘Transition Town’. The Blight family business was horses, in particular … Continue reading "Just Stop Oil?"| Warwick Vegan
Another book-club purchase by the look of it, this is from 1990 and at first sight looks like just another publication for a celebrity-biased readership. But it is for the most part much better than that. It states that the Living Without Cruelty Campaign including the annual exhibition in London is (was) run nationally by … Continue reading "Cruelty-Free"| Warwick Vegan
In contrast to an article on gender politics being the lead article in the Spring 1993 edition of the Vegan Society’s magazine, the Spring 1993 edition of the Vegetarian Society’s quarterly VQ magazine had a lead story about Genetic Engineering. This was written by Jane Brophy, its dietitian at the time and opens with a … Continue reading "Genetic Engineering"| Warwick Vegan
Colorado has an interest ballot issue for the next election. It is supposedly designed to “Protect animals for unnecessary suffering and exploitation”. Specifically, it involves revisions to statutes 18-9-201 (amending sections (2), (2.9), and (5), and adds section (3.5)) and revisions to 18-2-202 (adding section 1.9). 16OriginalFinal.pdf (state.co.us) Statute 18-9-201: Definitions Section 2 revisions include … Continue reading "Colorado Ballot issue: Slaughter age for poultry and other...| Small and backyard poultry
I had to admit that I lacked the necessary humility to second-guess myself regarding the mites. However, the incident ultimately produced an even stronger attitude of care towards nonhumans. Natural history, as Thomas Fleischner has argued, can do this.| Earth Tongues
Here, I make a case for something that I call compassionate entomology, which is a way of studying insects and other arthropods that upholds the intrinsic value and welfare interests of the individual focal organisms.| Earth Tongues
My ecocentric goals and touchstones (the thriving of all Earthlings, do least harm and love life and Gaia) are all severely violated by fishing.| Earth Tongues
To massacre animals in this way is not what indigenous humans would do. On the contrary, the Grind is more akin to what Western vivisectionists did when they cut into living animals in the name of science. Faroe islanders do the same, under more turbulent, uncontrolled circumstances, in the name of tradition.| Earth Tongues
Give your body over to the plants. They deliver magical micronutrients and purifying fiber. They deep-hydrate the body suffusing it with a quality of juiciness, which amounts to the gift of youthfulness regardless of biological years. Bypass meat-heavy dietary fads: such eating will stiffen and dry you into old age.| Earth Tongues
Let's not indulge in euphemism. Freya was a living mammal like us, who wanted to live. What you ordered was not euthanasia but a killing, or a murder.| Earth Tongues
On Friday 22nd April, an unusual ceremony took place in Winnipeg, Canada. Represented by its governor, the Hudson's Bay Company gave its massive retail store in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, dating from 1881, to the Manitoba First Nations.| Earth Tongues
Despite strong public opposition in France, hunting’s ever-thinning guise of heritage still remains robust enough to satisfy many politicians. Emmanuel Macron, the President, claims to be serious about biodiversity but is an advocate of the suite of barbaric practices that make up this tradition.| Earth Tongues
It is obvious that humanity's treatment of whale people constitutes an atrocity. This includes the deliberate murder of a so-called hunt, the quasi-deliberate murder of negligence, the effective murder of habitat destruction, or the oblivious murder of the unthinking.| Earth Tongues
Slowly, over the years, intimate knowledge has allowed me to realize all wild lives are significant, and while sometimes enormously different from mine, they are not inferior.| Earth Tongues
At first glance, it may strike us as odd that human food is made from the suffering and torture of animals. But it’s the fact that it is not odd that should command our attention.| Earth Tongues
The term environmental racism refers to the way in which the neighborhoods of disadvantaged socioeconomic groups are disproportionately burdened with the negative effects of environmental exploitation.| Earth Tongues
One night years ago, in a park in Florida, I met a wonderful couple, Carol Wolf and her husband, Herb. They introduced me to the joys of mothing, the practice of attracting moths to suspended sheets with ultraviolet lights at night, and photographing them. This can get quite exciting, especially when a new, or unusually beautiful, species turns up.| Earth Tongues
Después de diez días encuentro un rato para escribir sobre el sufrimiento de miles de perritos “guardianes” en las fincas rurales de Canarias. Constato que el infierno no está en las pr…| MeanMicio
A viral video of sheep sprinting through Bushwick has residents questioning the source of the escape and reigniting the conversation about live poultry markets in the neighborhood.| Bushwick Daily
Northumberland County, PA — An engaged couple from Massachusetts was freed on bail from jail last week after the alleged October 19 release of over 600 mink from the Richard H. Stahl Sons Inc. fur farm near Sunbury, off Pennsylvania State Route 890. State prosecutors charged Celeste Legere and Cara Mitrano with over a dozen […]| UNICORN RIOT
Farming around the world, and in particular in the US, has increasingly become centralized as large factory farming. What are the environmental, social, and philosophical implications of this mode of agricultural production? [ dur: 58mins. ] Factory farming carry significant challenges on environme| The Scholars' Circle
PETA is demanding the UK government act to stop cruel animal testing after new puppy farm footage exposes company.| Canary
After decades of shrinking markets, could real fur be making a comeback? And will it hinge on society's understanding of sustainability?| Truth About Fur - The Blog!
El mes pasado escribí el artículo “Primum Non nocere: La necesidad de reemplazar la experimentación animal en la investigación de enfermedades neurodegenerativas”, publicado por la Cáte…| MeanMicio
Dr Rob Udale, who leads Animal Think Tank’s Narrative research project, recently conducted research which found that orienting an audience to a social justice issue (LGBT+ rights) led to stronger expressions of support for animal freedom. This seemed to us to be a great example of bleedover between values underpinning concern for social justice and […]| CC Foundation
Many years ago Amnesty International ran a marketing campaign with the strapline “Save the Human”. When I first noticed it on the tube, I saw it as an attempt to encourage people who donate to conservation charities to pause and reassess their priorities. Before donating to help save the tiger, or the bees, the slogan […]| CC Foundation
Que España sea líder en violencia de género y maltrato animal no es casualidad, sino una consecuencia directa.| MeanMicio