How Awareness Leads to Action for Animals
What are we to make of the seeming discrepancy between public knowledge of animal suffering and inaction to prevent it? And more importantly, what can we do to resolve it?
Browsing: Politics
Palm Oil and Animal Rights: How you can combat the destruction of wild animals’ habitat
While palm oil can be defined as vegan because it contains no animal substances, the industry that produces it is by no means cruelty free.
Pennsylvania Residents Warned Against Leaving Dogs in the Cold
Pennsylvania’s new tough penalties are the result of Libre’s Law, passed this year after a Boston Terrier named Libre was found emaciated and suffering from sepsis and mange at a farm in Lancaster County.
Animal Rescue Team Assaulted in Name of ‘Cow Protection’
By using an innocent cow as a divisive political symbol and attacking Help in Suffering’s rescue team, ‘cow vigilantes’ have harmed innumerable animals in Jaipur, India.
Asia for Animals: Changing Human Behaviour
The 10th Asia for Animals conference gets underway this coming Saturday in the Nepali capital Kathmandu, and this year’s theme is Changing Human Behaviour.
Pouring cold water on ‘sustainable use’
None of the existing role players in conservation understand what is required to save Africa’s vanishing wilderness. The issue is just too broad and deep – and politically charged.
‘The pig who wanted to be eaten:’ A discussion on the representation of animals in consumer culture
The cultural significance of meat, coupled with our supposed ‘love’ of animals, demonstrate a fragile paradox advertisers have responded to in order to continue selling animal products.
Defending Palestine: Human and Animal Liberation Come Together in May 2018 Conference
For PAL, animal liberation cannot be divorced from anti-colonialism, Palestinian liberation and solidarity, and defense of the land and all the life that it supports.
Animal Personhood: Time to Push for Animals’ Rights in India
Whatever work one does for animals, we are all united by the common hope that someday animals will be recognised as more than just property. FIAPO is preparing a new campaign to pursue legal rights for animals in India.
Cattle-Ogue: Unveiling the Truth of the Indian Dairy Industry
FIAPO’s investigations reveal the unchecked horrors rampant in India’s ever growing commercialised dairy industry.
PAWS on ‘Balangiga:’ Animal Cruelty Has No Place in Filmmaking!
Cruelty is against the law and can never be part of good filmmaking. Filipino moviegoers deserve better, and all animals deserve to be treated with kindness and respect.
Topoloveni’s Spay/Neuter Success Story
A recent spay/neuter campaign in the town of Topoloveni, Romania, resulted in the sterilization of more than 400 dogs and cats, and sets an example for humane, effective population control for other cities to follow.