By Victoria Moran for The Huffington Post The ally relationship can be an odd one. I remember my shock in third grade, learning that the Soviets had been our ally in World War II. “How could this be?” I wondered. “Our arch-enemies, the reason we have to crawl under our desks and prepare for The Bomb, [...]
Animals Australia has applauded Coles for becoming the first Australia supermarket to commit to making its own-brand “Coles Butcher’ pork products “sow stall free” by the end of 2014. For the past five years Animals Australia’s public awareness campaigns have been highlighting the cruelty of sow stalls which individually confine breeding pigs in metal and [...]
A WA fashion designer has been lambasted by animal rights groups from around the world over claims she is promoting her fur designs as “cruelty free”. Animal welfare campaigners insist there is no humane way to farm fur, but claim the “cruelty free” description was used in an article promoting designer Harmony Douglas’s raccoon and [...]
There have been protests as a Western Australian butcher has been given ministerial dispensation to start selling horse flesh for human consumption. According to an article in the West Australian, the Chez Pierre restaurant in Nedlands decided not to serve horse flesh on Bastille Day after customers threatened to boycott the restaurant. The following article [...]
The following article was published on the Voiceless site, linked to here. In 2010, the Voiceless Animal Law Lecture Series returns for its biggest run yet, with law schools, law firms and professional associations across the country gearing up to host what is sure to be their most popular Series. For the first time the [...]
SIX hundred marsupials will be shot on Maria Island over the next two weeks. Parks and Wildlife says the operation is in the interests of animal welfare but kangaroo advocates say it is backward and cruel. The Parks and Wildlife Service said the island’s forester kangaroo, Tasmanian pademelon and Bennett’s wallaby population had increased 30 [...]
There is now much written about the emotional world of animals, about how animals form societies and family bonds, and experience emotions very much like we do. In-depth studies have been done by people such as Australian Jodi Ruckley from Our Place on Earth who has been filming and writing about her experiences of communicating [...]
On a late May afternoon last year in southwest Baltimore, a 2-year-old female pit bull terrier was doused in gasoline and set alight. A young city policewoman on her regular patrol of the neighborhood of boarded-up row houses and redbrick housing developments turned her squad car onto the 1600 block of Presbury Street and saw [...]
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