Led recognition of “metric tons” of fish as millions of sentient lives UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania––The biggest news in the watery world of fisheries in early October 2019 was the appearance of the 447-foot Margiris, reputedly the world’s second-largest trawler, through the mists of the English Channel just 14 miles off Brighton, East Sussex. “For […]
Elephants, giraffes, sharks, Asian otters & seahorses fare well in Switzerland
African elephants win protection near where exports for display began GENEVA, Switzerland––Live elephant exports from Africa for exhibition at least nominally ended by plenary vote at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Triennial Conference of the Parties on August 27, 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland, about 200 miles north from where the […]
Will Nairobi shoot dogs, vaccinate them, or serve them for dinner?
Governor’s proposals confuse & alarm Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya––Does Nairobi County governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko want to shoot street dogs, vaccinate them against rabies, or serve them for dinner? Three and a half months after the Sonko administration began running the three proposals up the flagpole to see who might salute, neither Nairobi citizens, news […]
Rescued dogs overheat––and pigs & chickens, as humane oversight fails
If rescue transporters can’t keep dogs from cooking in crates, what happens to livestock? NEW YORK CITY, TORONTO, LONDON (U.K.)––Again a New York City-based dog adoption transport has come to grief in hot weather, again leaving the rest of the adoption rescue transport to wonder why. Recounted Gabrielle Fonrouge of the New York Post […]
Cruelty charges filed against Aussie live sheep shippers––a first!
Shipping company already lost live export license PERTH, Australia––Cruelty charges were on July 31, 2019 filed against two former directors of the live animal shipping company Emanuel Exports over the August 2017 deaths of more than 2,400 sheep from heat stress aboard the Awassi Express. The sheep were in transit to slaughter in […]
E. coli kills yet another child who visited a petting zoo
Third known petting zoo fatality since 2011 SAN DIEGO, California––Jedidiah King Cabezuela, age 2, on June 24, 2019 died from hemolytic uremic syndrome, an apparent complication of exposure to shiga toxin-producing e. coli bacteria two weeks earlier at the San Diego County Fair. “The County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency said the […]
Whaling harpoons Icelandic tourism & the whole nation suffers (UPDATE!)
Iceland suspends whaling after ANIMALS 24-7 exposes how killing whales wounded a whale-watching industry that brings in twice as much money REYKJAVIK, Iceland––The two remaining Icelandic whaling companies, Hvalur, killing fin whales, and IP Útgerð, killing minke whales, on the afternoon of June 27, 2019 jointly announced that they will not go whaling this year, […]
What “sportsmen” say about stomping fish dumped out of a barrel
Fishers fight over sadistic display KALISPELL, Montana––Shooting fish in a barrel, long a metaphor for the most unsporting forms of hunting, has a correlative at Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s, a Bass subsidiary since 2017. To hook children on recreational killing, Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s stores from time to time offer free access […]
Fair Oaks Farms stepped in the same crap as the rest of the herd
Cell phone videocams open factory farms to public view Ignoring 30 years of warnings by leading U.S. agribusiness educators and pundits has at last visibly begun to cost the livestock industry consumer confidence, as evidenced by the explosive growth in sales of plant-based protein foods and steeply declining dairy, meat, and poultry consumption among younger […]
Exposé of “Dairy Disneyland” horrors gives agribiz the runs
Fair Oaks Farms’ Dairy Adventure was recently profiled as “One Farm’s Quest to Save Industrial Agriculture” FAIR OAKS, Indiana––Undercover video from Fair Oaks Farm in Fair Oaks, Indiana, has exposed extensive abuse of young calves at a facility widely billed as exemplifying a new, humane approach to factory farming. Animal Recovery Mission, of Miami […]
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