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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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months agoPamela Anderson suggests vegan meals for N.Y. prison inmatesPamela Anderson wants to get the meat out of the slammer.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/louise-mead/veganism-humane_b_9416678.html
It's Time We Reconsider What We Define as HumaneI've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'll keep saying it until people choose to listen. None of this is necessary. We have no need to use and kill animals for food, clothing, entertainment, or any other reason. To harm and kill another being without necessity is profoundly unjust, no matter how you paint it. There is only one way to bring this injustice to an end; and that is, my fellow animal-lovers, for each of us to be the change by being vegan.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/egg-industry-secrets.php
5 things the egg industry doesn't tell youYou already know cage eggs are cruel, but you'll never hear the cage egg industry admit it. So what else might they be cagey about? These five facts may ruffle some feathers.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
http://www.mfablog.org/breaking-another-dairy-worker-convicted-of
BREAKING! Another Dairy Worker Convicted of Animal Cruelty Following Hidden-Camera InvestigationA Second Dairy Worker Pleads No Contest to Stabbing, Beating, and Whipping Cows.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
http://www.theprovince.com/life/vancouver+profit+calls+imports+from+asia/11768983/story.html
Vancouver non-profit calls for ban on all dog and cat fur imports from AsiaA Vancouver-based not-for-profit is calling on all animal lovers to help in its bid to ban Canada’s import of dog and cat fur pelts.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months agoThe images of chimps thrilled me: do they show evidence of spirituality in the wild?A ritual with rocks observed in a study in Guinea has profound implications for our relationship with the animal kingdom
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fire-holds-no-fears-for-chimps-says-scientist-1869307.html
Fire holds no fears for chimps, says scientistWild chimpanzees have been observed carrying out a “fire dance” in front of grassland wildfires as part of a suite of unusual behaviours that could indicate an ability of man’s closet living relative to understand and even control fire.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
http://www.care2.com/causes/alaskans-overwhelmingly-disapprove-of-cruel-hunting-practices.html
Alaskans Overwhelmingly Disapprove of Cruel Hunting Practices | Care2 CausesA survey conducted by the Humane Society of the United States found that Alaskans are tired of aerial hunting and trapping.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/04/world-meat-addiction/ The Shocking Consequences of the World’s Meat Addiction
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
https://www.thedodo.com/circus-elephant-falls-stunt-video-1246774647.html
Circus Elephants Rush To Help Friend Who Fell During Cruel StuntFor the love of animals. Pass it on.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
http://www.chooseveg.com/8-farmed-animal-rescue-stories-that-will
8 Farmed Animal Rescue Stories That Will Warm Your HeartThese precious rescues remind us that all animals deserve love and compassion.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 8 months agoAmerican research team tracks down rare bird then kills itChris Filardi, director of Pacific Programs at The Museum of Natural History, is defending his choice to slaughter the male moustached kingfisher after finding it in The Solomon Islands.
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Wolf Gordon Clifton posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
Religion in animals? Why not – it would be pretty much the only human behavior not also known in other species.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/06/chimps-more-human-than-we-think?CMP=share_btn_fb
The images of chimps thrilled me: do they show evidence of spirituality in the wild?A ritual with rocks observed in a study in Guinea has profound implications for our relationship with the animal kingdom
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Wolf Gordon Clifton posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago
A courageous defender of Indigenous people and the natural world, murdered in Honduras yesterday.
Berta Cáceres, Honduran human rights and environment activist, murderedCáceres, who was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her opposition to one of Central America’s biggest hydropower projects, was shot at home
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 9 months agoMarkets of Death, Part Three: How China’s taste for wildlife feeds a killing frenzy | Daily MaverickAfrica’s extraordinary and charismatic wildlife is clearly under siege from the wrecking ball of Chinese demand. Heading the list of critically damaged species are elephants. As the world’s largest consumer, Chinese hunger for ivory is stimulating transnational organised crime, trashing ecosystems, flooding areas with weapons, perverting legal systems and causing mounting tension in elephant-range communities. Part 3 of a three-part series by DON PINNOCK.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 9 months agoAll the Missing Horses: What Happened to the Wild Horses Tom Davis Bought From the Gov’t?The main buyer from a federal program designed to protect wild horses is a Colorado man who advocates slaughter. He’s bought more than 1,700 since 2009, but won’t say where they are.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago
PR, ethics, and the science of head transplants
PR, ethics, and the science of head transplantsThere has been a lot of media coverage on the recent claims by Dr. Sergio Canavero that he has successfully transplanted the head of a monkey on to a donor body of another monkey. This story, origi…
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago
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Kim Bartlett posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago
It hurts to be boiled alive, which is scientific fact for crustaceans. As long as killing them is what we do to unwelcome migrant creatures (and often people, too), there is little hope that humans will develop a more humane ethic that will allow us to live lighter on the earth and learn to share it with the other animals. If environmental…[Read more]