http://www.paws.org.au People & Animal Welfare Society Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:56:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_594" align="alignleft" width="420" caption="Monika Biernacki cuddles Jericho, whose owner tried to drown him, at her animal shelter, Monika's Doggie Rescue in Ingleside. Photo: Janie Barrett"][/caption] . Over the past two decades, Monika Biernacki has successfully found new homes all over Sydney for 9000 canines whose lives she saved on ... http://www.paws.org.au/2010/03/new-leash-of-life/ To tread more lightly on the planet, our diets must change Thoughts from Commissioner Tim Lang speaking at the Holyrood Conference on Scotland's National Food Policy [caption id="attachment_588" align="alignleft" width="75" caption="Tim Lang"][/caption]At no time in history has the pace and scale of change in our diet been faster than the last 50 ... http://www.paws.org.au/2010/03/uk-govt-advised-to-go-vegan-for-the-environment/ Plant-based power is a real thing and taking the world by storm! In the new film Forks Over Knives Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn examine the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by adopting a plant-based, ... http://www.paws.org.au/2010/03/new-documentary-%e2%80%98forks-over-knives%e2%80%99-reveals-benefits-of-vegan-diet/ [caption id="attachment_557" align="alignleft" width="420" caption="Waving goodbye to meat ... Simon Cowell comes in support of vegetarianism."][/caption] The music mogul has been persuaded by the Bleeding Lovesinger - who he mentored on UK TV talent show The X Factor in 2006 - to support Sir Paul McCartney's Meat Free Mondays campaign, in which people ... http://www.paws.org.au/2010/02/simon-cowell-is-becoming-vegetarian-for-leona-lewis/ [caption id="attachment_532" align="alignleft" width="316" caption="Source: The Daily Telegraph "][/caption] PIGS kept in tiny cages, chickens fed antibiotics, tomatoes that won'’t ripen and apples stored for months before they hit the supermarket shelves. It sounds like the stuff of sci-fi, but in fact, these are the realities of global food production, where ... http://www.paws.org.au/2010/02/the-new-food-movements/ CAT owners have told the City of Swan that they cannot control their pets, and they should not be held responsible for keeping felines off private property. Cat owners are the main complainants of a local law introduced in January that allows people to trap straying pets, according to the City ... http://www.paws.org.au/2010/02/cat-owners-are-aghast-at-law/ [caption id="attachment_523" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Waroona Shire wants kangaroos at Preston beach culled."][/caption] THE Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) has still not responded to a second request lodged two months ago by the Shire of Waroona seeking permission to shoot 100 western grey kangaroos that live in bush around Preston Beach ... http://www.paws.org.au/2010/02/roo-cull-standstill/ [caption id="attachment_520" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The carnage of tortoise carcasses at Lake Goollelal."][/caption] THE catching of native fish in Perth lakes and wetlands has been suspended after more than 10 long-necked tortoises drowned in Department of Fisheries’ nets at Lake Goollelal last month. Department of Fisheries principal research scientist Craig Lawrence said the ... http://www.paws.org.au/2010/02/fishing-suspended-after-discovery-of-dead-tortoises/ Israel takes a giant step, approving expansion on anti-fur bill to include all animals The Israeli Government approves unanimously a bill that brings Israel one step closer to becoming the first fur-free country In one of the most important achievements in the combined efforts of the ‘International Anti-Fur Coalition’ and ‘Let the ... http://www.paws.org.au/2010/02/israeli-bill-to-ban-fur-trade/ A MAGISTRATE has called for a psychiatric report on a 22-year-old Gosnells woman who faces jail for brutally stabbing to death her partner's german shepherd dog. Rebecca Louise Perring was due to be sentenced today at Armadale Magistrates court today for maliciously wounding an adult dog with a knife.

Perring pleaded guilty in December ... http://www.paws.org.au/2010/01/501/