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It’s Almost Impossible to Ethically Justify the Use of Animals in Research
A conversation with ecofeminist Lori Gruen by Dayton Martindale.
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Horrifying video shows Petco supplier killing pets
WARNING: The following video includes disturbing content A farm in Pennsylvania that supplies animals to PetSmart and Petco has been slaughtering animals by the hundreds...
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Germany becomes the first country to ban disturbing 'chick shredding' practice
Germany has just become the first country to outlaw the practice of ‘chick shredding’. Every year millions of male chicks are ground up alive or suffocated by the commercial egg industry. This is because male chicks don’t grow up into egg-laying chickens, and they’re not considered suitable to be slaughtered for meat. Around half of all chicks born into the egg industry are male, and end up being ‘shredded’ right after hatching.
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Michael Jackson’s Pet Chimp, Bubbles, Is Living Out His Twilight Years in Florida
Bubbles plows a big blue bucket along the border of his enclosure, tracing an invisible line. His fleshy feet thud against the concrete path. "He's just letting us know he's here," one of his caretakers says. By Dyllan Furness. (Feb. 2)
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Yellowstone To Slaughter Up To 900 Bison
At one time, there were as many as 60 million buffalo roaming North America, so many that they became the symbolic representation of our westward expansion. Unfortunately for them, they were also a popular food source for a rapidly expanding army of settlers, profitable for traders, and relatively easy to capture and kill. By 1884, there were only around 325 of the beasts left in the wild, with just 25 of them in Yellowstone National Park.
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Runkle: Tell your kids where lunch comes from
Ask almost any American child to draw a farm, and she will likely sketch a picture of happy animals in a sunny, green field next to a red barn. This is the fairy-tale image of agriculture we spoon feed children before they’re even old enough to read. Ask the fifth-grade students of Michael Fields, a science teacher in Arenac County, Mich., to draw a farm, and you might get a different image. Last month, Fields came under fire from parents and...
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A Journalist Is Exposing How the FBI Targets Animal Activists as ‘Terrorists’
As a young reporter for the Chicago Tribune in the months following 9/11, Will Potter was already growing weary of reporting on cops, crime, and shootings in the city. On a whim during some time off, he decided to help a group of activists hand out leaflets opposing animal testing. “It wasn’t what journalists usually do,” says Potter, now 37. “But I was feeling like I wasn’t making a difference in the world as a reporter.”
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What Happens to Your Dog When You Get Arrested?
A lot of the time, the dogs go to a jail of their own. By Mike Pearl.
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Maybe It’s Time to Take Animal Feelings Seriously
Dogs can read human emotions. So, it appears, can horses. Whales have regional accents. Ravens have demonstrated that they might be able to guess at the thoughts of other ravens — something scientists call “theory of mind,” which has long been considered a uniquely human ability. All of these findings have been published within the past several weeks, and taken together they suggest that many of the traits and abilities we believe...
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‘No kill’ animal rescue is a disaster for animal welfare
‘No kill’ animal shelters have unleashed an epidemic of suffering. Is a life of misery any better than a quick death? In March 2013, my husband and I were on our way to a museum when we saw a sign advertising an adoption event at the Petco pet store on the Upper West Side in New York City. ‘Should we adopt another cat?’ my husband asked. We’d got our scaredy-cat Gilbert from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...
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SeaWorld CEO: We're ending our orca breeding program. Here's why.
"This year we will end all orca breeding programs — and because SeaWorld hasn't collected an orca from the wild in almost four decades, this will be the last generation of orcas in SeaWorld's care. We are also phasing out our theatrical orca whale shows."
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SeaWorld Agrees To End Captive Breeding Of Killer Whales
In an agreement with The Humane Society of the United States, the theme park will also phase out the use of the giant marine mammals in theatrical shows.
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Animal rights activists target China dog meat festival
Animal rights activists are seeking to shut down an annual summer dog meat festival in southern China blamed for blackening the country's international reputation as well as fueling extreme cruelty to canines and unhygienic food handling practices. Activists from a coalition of groups said Monday that they will continue press for the festival to be banned as well as legislation outlawing the slaughtering of dogs and cats and the consumption of their meat.
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What exactly does the halal method of animal slaughter involve?
Contrary to what many assume, an estimated 88% of animals killed by halal methods in Britain are stunned before slaughter
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Elephant whose living conditions inspired protests dies at 69
Hanoko, which means “flower child,” lived almost her entire life at Tokyo’s Inokashira Park Zoo. By Christopher Brennan. (May 26)
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China's Dog Meat Festival Will Go On Despite Growing Protests
Held every year, the Yulin Dog Meat Festival results in the slaughter of thousands of dogs, which are then served in some of the restaurants in this city in south China. An international campaign to halt the killing keeps growing each year. Millions in Canada, the U.K. and the United States have signed petitions calling for China to end the festival, which is scheduled to start this year on June 21. Yet it not just foreign activists who are working to stop China's dog meat trade. There are now millions of pet owners in the world's most populous country.
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Woman found guilty of cruelty for duct-taping dog’s muzzle
Judge in Wake County, N.C., on Friday found a Florida woman guilty of animal cruelty for wrapping duct tape around her dog’s muzzle. A photo of the dog posted to Facebook by Katharine Lemanksy unleashed a viral reaction that ended with two Cary, N.C., police officers charging her with being cruel to the dog. The officers testified that the dog, named Brown, was otherwise well cared for so they did not remove it from the Cary home where the incident occurred.
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Canada's Supreme Court Just Ruled Some Bestiality Is Legal
While bestiality is a criminal offence in Canada, the top court ruled the legal definition is much more limited than how it has been interpreted for decades. It all goes back to the 1800s Church of England trying to ban any sex acts that were seen as unnatural. The crime of bestiality in Canada stems from the old crime of “buggery.” The original definition of buggery meant anal sex with either another human or an animal. Both were forbidden in England, where Canada’s earliest laws came from.
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Condemning Yulin’s horrific dog meat festival is easy. Facing our own animal cruelty is harder
Festival-goers are marking the start of summer solstice by gathering as communities to celebrate over barbecued meat. This could be a scene from anywhere in the world, but the one making headlines is from Yulin, China – because the animals on the barbecue will be dogs. The annual summer festival in Yulin has been widely criticized, mostly by Westerners who aren’t used to thinking of dogs as food. Images and footage of filthy dogs crowded into cages and being brutally slaughtered...
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How Whales Are Deliberately Hunted by 'Accident'
Days before the Whale Festival in Ulsan, South Korea, last month, authorities raided a cold storage unit and found more than 27 tons—about 40 whales’ worth—of whale meat worth $3.4 million. The meat belonged to minke whales, which can grow to 35 feet long and swim as fast as 20 miles an hour. While Japan, Norway, and Iceland get most of the heat for whaling, conservationists say South Korea engages in controversial whaling practices too. South Korean fishermen are known to take advantage of a loophole that allows them to legally sell whale meat from animals that are accidentally caught in fishing nets.
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