In recent years, major news outlets have started taking note of the animal movement, and including coverage of animal rights, welfare, and conservation issues on a daily basis. Check out our curated selection of top stories from around the world, updated every day.
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Wildlife Trade Spreads Coronaviruses as Animals Get to MarketDNA tests show an increase in the number of animals with positive tests for some coronaviruses from the time they are trapped until they arrive on someone’s dinner plate.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Why you should go animal-free: 18 arguments for eating meat debunkedUnpalatable as it may be for those wedded to producing and eating meat, the environmental and health evidence for a plant-based diet is clear
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Whale-watching boat noise found to disrupt mother and calf resting timesResearchers say as engine noise went up, humpback whale mothers’ breathing rate increased and they swam faster
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/books/review/billion-dollar-burger-by-chase-purdy-an-excerpt.html
‘Billion Dollar Burger,’ by Chase Purdy: An ExcerptAn excerpt from “Billion Dollar Burger,” by Chase Purdy
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Opinion: The pandemic has revealed the value of undercover work. Yet governments are making that illegalIn Alberta and Ontario, legislation has been passed that makes abject conditions in private spaces, from senior care to farms, even more difficult to expose
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
‘She’s an angel and she was giving thirsty pigs water’ — Hamilton woman killed while protesting outside slaughterhouseWitnesses said Regan Russell was struck by a truck while giving water to pigs outside Fearmans
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Do Animals Think or Feel?The Ontario Federation of Agriculture says no, despite clear evidence they do.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
How Humanity Has Unleashed a Flood of Zoonotic DiseasesAs we degrade animal habitats, reduce biodiversity and reach ever deeper into the wilderness for resources, we’re all but certain to encounter more diseases like Covid-19.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Understanding Euthanasia: When Life and Words Become WorthlessThis verbal corruption confounds our discourse when, instead of a companion animal or human sufferer, the subject is a chicken, a pig, a turkey Read more...
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
'It's only important if you eat food': inside a film on the honeybee crisisThe Pollinators investigates the honeybee, which is essential to America’s agriculture and food supply, and dying by the billions in the process
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Scottish salmon farmers to be banned from shooting sealsStricter wildlife protections will also clamp down on use of acoustic deterrent devices
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
- Conservation Action TrustSouth African proposal to breed wildlife for slaughter courts disaster The proposed Meat Safety Act will see more wild animals landing on dinner plates. GettyImages Chris Alden, London School of Economics and Political Science and Ross Harvey, University of Johannesburg There are times of spectacular policy myopia – and promoting a revision to the MeatRead More
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Conservation Leaders Urge UN World Tourism Organisation: Curb Wildlife Exploitation - Conservation Action TrustThe thing with keeping wildlife in cages is that it almost always turns around to bite you in the behind. The current global pandemic is case-in-point and going forward, a new perception of sustainable tourism is key, especially in South Africa. By environmental writer Louzel Lombard Steyn Conservation groups from South Africa and around theRead More
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
The Breaking Point: Could this report spell the end of SA's wildlife trade? - Conservation Action TrustMuch is being written about the trade of live wildlife for human consumption at wet markets around the world, such as the one in Wuhan where the Covid-19 pandemic is believed to have spread from. Many are concerned with how similar zoonotic spillovers can be prevented in the future. The Chinese Academy of Engineering claims that the ‘legal’Read More
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
https://conservationaction.co.za/media-articles/are-trophy-hunters-serial-killers/
Are trophy hunters serial killers? Book review. - Conservation Action TrustSupported by wealthy and powerful organisations like Safari Club International, the Dallas Safari Club and the National Rifle Association and egged on by countless awards and record book listings, trophy hunters have gunned down 1,7 million wild animals in the past decade. Around 250 000 were endangered species. This is detailed in an alarming book, TrophyRead More
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Pandemics result from destruction of nature, say UN and WHOExperts call for legislation and trade deals worldwide to encourage green recovery
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Supertrawlers ‘making a mockery’ of UK’s protected seasVast vessels spent almost 3,000 hours fishing in officially protected areas in 2019
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK, says reportExclusive: Milk giants’ climate impact rising and production caps needed, say researchers
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
https://theconversation.com/can-asia-end-its-uncontrolled-consumption-of-wildlife-heres-how-north-america-did-it-a-century-ago-137343?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2017%202020%20-%201653715911&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2017%202020%20-%201653715911+Version+A+CID_bed481…[Read more]
Can Asia end its uncontrolled consumption of wildlife? Here's how North America did it a century agoIn the 1800s, Americans hunted many wild species near or into extinction. Then in the early 1900s, the US shifted from uncontrolled consumption of wildlife to conservation. Could Asia follow suit?