External Links

http://www.wsj.com/articles/red-meats-potentially-cause-cancer-group-says-1445860101

Red Meats Linked to Cancer, Global Health Group SaysRed and processed meats have the potential to cause cancer in humans, according to a report by a World Health Organization agency that is drawing ire from meat industry groups that argue the science is inadequate.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/10/27/mercy-for-animals-accuses-tysons-of-abuse-at-mississippi-chicken-slaughterhouse/74704928/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/30/silencing-the-grizzlys-defenders-as-the-body-count-mounts/

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ape-fossil-evolution-diverge-20151029-story.html

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-joy-of-bats

The Joy of Bats - The New Yorker“The Secret Lives of Bats” teaches readers about the world’s bats through the stories of Merlin Tuttle’s experiences with them.

http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/5/4/0397

Predator Bounties in Western Canada Cause Animal Suffering and Compromise Wildlife Conservation EffortsAlthough predation bounty programs (rewards offered for capturing or killing an animal) ended more than 40 years ago in Canada, they were reintroduced in Alberta in 2007 by hunting, trapping, and farming organizations, municipalities and counties, and in 2009 in Saskatchewan, by municipal and provincial governments and the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association. Bounty hunters use inhumane and non-selective killing methods such as shooting animals in non-vital regions, and killing neck snares and strychnine poisoning, which cause suffering and delayed deaths. They are unselective, and kill many non-target species, some of them at risk. Predator bounty programs have been found to be ineffective by wildlife professionals, and they use killing methods that cause needless suffering and jeopardize wildlife conservation programs. Our analysis therefore indicates that government agencies should not permit the implementation of bounty programs. Accordingly, they must develop conservation programs that will minimize wildlife-human conflicts, prevent the unnecessary and inhumane killing of animals, and ensure the persistence of all wildlife species.

http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/5/3/0380

Physiologic Measures of Animal Stress during Transitional States of ConsciousnessDetermination of the humaneness of methods used to produce unconsciousness in animals, whether for anesthesia, euthanasia, humane slaughter, or depopulation, relies on our ability to assess stress, pain, and consciousness within the contexts of method and application. Determining the subjective experience of animals during transitional states of consciousness, however, can be quite difficult; further, loss of consciousness with different agents or methods may occur at substantially different rates. Stress and distress may manifest behaviorally (e.g., overt escape behaviors, approach-avoidance preferences [aversion]) or physiologically (e.g., movement, vocalization, changes in electroencephalographic activity, heart rate, sympathetic nervous system [SNS] activity, hypothalamic-pituitary axis [HPA] activity), such that a one-size-fits-all approach cannot be easily applied to evaluate methods or determine specific species applications. The purpose of this review is to discuss methods of evaluating stress in animals using physiologic methods, with emphasis on the transition between the conscious and unconscious states.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3303302/EXCLUSIVE-Baby-faced-trained-killers-Shock-video-Spain-s-sword-wielding-child-matadors-14-stabbing-bull-death.html

Video shows matador students, 14, spear blood spattered bulls to deathWARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT 'Preening' schoolboy matadors filmed stabbing baby calves to death with swords in barbaric training at a public display at an arena near Madrid, Spain.

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/07/sorry_eating_chicken_is_indefensible_the_real_horrors_behind_americas_most_popular_meat

Sorry, eating chicken is indefensible: The real horrors behind America’s most popular meatChicken is seen as cheap protein and convenient food. But the labor practices and "killing line" are horrifying

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hawaii-petrel-rescue-operation_563a7a37e4b0411d306f7503?ir=Science%253Fncid%253Dnewsltushpmg00000003

Researchers Kidnap Fluffy Seabirds In Elaborate Rescue Operation

The Suicidal Animal: Science and the Nature of Self-Destruction, by Edmund Ramsden and Duncan Wilson
Oxford Journals
In 1897, the French sociologist Emile Durkheim published Suicide, his renowned statistical study that sought to categorize the varying forms of self-destruction as egoistic, fatalistic, anomic or altruistic. Durkheim built upon the…[Read more]

The Suicidal Animal: Science and the Nature of Self-Destruction

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/animals/chimpanzee-mother-caring-for-down-syndrome-infant-in-the-wild-can-teach-us-about-human-behaviour-20151111-gkwnks

Chimpanzee mother caring for disabled child in the wild can teach us about human behaviourThe extraordinary case of a chimpanzee mother caring for her disabled infant in the wild may help scientists understand how human beings care for children with disabilities.

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/animals/fact-sharks-pretty-much-only-bite-men-heres-why-20151029-gklnxo.html.html

Fact: Sharks pretty much only bite men. Here's whyAre you a woman? Good news: you're probably not going to get bitten by a shark.

12 Years in Prison for Trying to Protect Spotted Seals

12 Years in Prison for Trying to Protect Spotted SealsBy Yaxue Cao, published: November 16, 2015 While the number of spotted seals keeps dwindling, its ardent protector gets jail time – an all too familiar Chinese tale.     The 52-year-old Tian Jiguan...

“Pardoning” turkeys, as if they had committed some crime to deserve their hellish lives and horrific deaths, is a perverse tradition.

http://www.mfablog.org/foster-farms-turkeys-pardoned-by-president

Foster Farms Turkeys Pardoned by President While Company Tortures Other BirdsFoster Farms can't hide the truth.

Zoroastrian dietary laws, animal friendship and stewardship

Apparently Zoroastrianism is very enlightened regarding animals.

[bpfb_link url=’http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/black-mambas-fighting-poachers-saving-animals/’ title=’Meet the Incredible Group of Women Who Are Fighting Poachers and Saving Animals in South Africa | One Green Planet ‘ image=’http://cdn.onegreenplanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10//2015/10/Black-Mambas11.jpg’]In 2013, the Black…[Read more]