Bringing back a cruel sport?
…it is impossible to hold jallikattu events without inflicting pain and cruelty on the bulls. There is no such thing as “humane” jallikattu…
Browsing: Bloodsports
Animal Rights Activists Employ New Tactics to Thwart Hunters
Hounding the hunters is long overdue, but the fight will never be easy because speciesism cuts deep into the human psyche. Animal rights activists are employing a new set of tactics to thwart hunters from taking down wolves, bears, and other game.
POETRY: Bluefish
“A fish” – they cried,
“We caught a fish.”
Stocky little cruel faces,
Alive with the excitement
Of the kill…
POETRY: The Killing Fields of Quabbin
Blind terror and bewilderment
As the guns crash and echo
Through once virgin forest…
POETRY: Man the Destroyer of Worlds
When I walk in the woods,
I am at peace.
I am at home.
And, yet,
Sadness is always there
Because I know
In every thorn patch,
Every hillock,
Every thicket,
Hide living beings,
Shy and fearful
Of me and my fellow man….
Ending the sacrifice at Gadhimai, part two
Large numbers of volunteers from Indian animal welfare groups arrived to assist the Border Patrol in spotting people trying to take animals to Nepal.
Ending the sacrifice at Gadhimai, part one
…the temple authorities of Gadhimai Temple made the announcement that the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of animals, held every five years, would be permanently canceled. The world’s largest animal sacrifice had finally come to an end.
The “Animal Rights Agenda” 25 years later
Animal People takes a retrospective look at one of the founding documents of the animal rights movement