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Should Buddhist Temples Serve Meat?
The Buddha may or may not have taught vegetarianism, but there is no excuse in any Buddhist tradition for temples to serve meat to followers.
Trap-Neuter-Return Projects May Bring Conflicts Over Euthanasia
What does it take to implement a successful TNR program, and when if ever is it more humane to euthanize animals than return them to their habitats?
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 MARKET TO SELL DOGS and its sad wrecks
An item in our Ernest Bell Library. French postcard – anti-vivisection It is quite unusual…
Romania Animal Rescue and Animal Spay Neuter International
“Everyone says they will help the Romanian dogs. They go home, they forget. You will go home, you’ll forget”. Our reply, “We will not forget”.”
Ecotourism
In any discussion of ecotourism the dangers of “greenwashing” must be explored. Greenwashing is the use of misleading advertisements to suggest that an activity is good for the environment when objectively it is not. Wildlife theme parks, underwater hotels and motorized tours into fragile ecosystems strive to portray themselves as environmentally positive (or neutral) but they are not. True ecotourism builds environmental awareness while emphasizing human rights and local control over resources and development. It is not solely about animals but also about the humans who live there, and have lived there in the past, often for thousands of years.
Animal friendly gardens
So many backyards in our neighborhood are covered with grass and non-native plants which are unfriendly to wildlife. Animals can only utilize certain plants as food and some are unusable or even poisonous. Grass is an environmental disaster. It requires a prodigious amount of water which in drought regions is irreplaceable. Pesticides are generally used it which poison the ecosystem and drain off into our rivers and oceans. People then mow it and put the clippings in plastic bags which are hauled away (using fossil fuels) to the landfill. What a tragedy!
The “Animal Rights Agenda” 25 years later
Animal People takes a retrospective look at one of the founding documents of the animal rights movement
VIDEOS: CollegeHumor’s “Is Meat Murder?” and SNL’s “Veganville”
Could these two comedic sketches signal the beginning of the end for meat-eating?
Animal Sacrifice: A Distortion of Hinduism
Gadhimai and many other animal sacrifices are performed to Hindu deities across Asia, but such cruel and violent acts defile the true spirit of the religion.
BOOK REVIEW: Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safron Foer
What most clearly sets Eating Animals apart from the bulk of animal rights literature is…