Hedge funds bet that the foliage is where our next meals are coming from LAS VEGAS, LONDON––Food industry leaders placing investment bets on what they believe will be the next big trend in eating are putting more and more of the money on alternatives to animal products and byproducts. Three paths away from meat […]
Fewer dogs & cats used in U.S. labs than ever before
Guinea pig, hamster, & rabbit numbers also low, but monkey use was up. Mice & rats? Who knows? WASHINGTON, D.C.––Are U.S. laboratories using more animals than ever before, or fewer, at least of most species? Laboratory animal use data from 2016 released on June 9, 2017 shows record reported lows in use of dogs, […]
Eight hundred years of zoos in London
New book and 2004 volume detail the origins of zoos as we know them LONDON, U.K.––Scheduled for official publication by Viking/Pegasus on April 4, 2017, The Zoo: The Wild And Wonderful Tale Of The Founding Of London Zoo, by British television producer Isobel Charman, has drawn pre-publication raves from reviewers fortunate enough to receive […]
Under the Skin: How ejiao threatens the common ass
The Donkey Sanctuary saddles up Free download from https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/under-the-skin/full-report Reviewed by Merritt Clifton BEIJING––Can demand for a commodity that constitutes only one ten-thousandth of the global market for traditional Chinese medicine really pose what Donkey Rescue World blogger David C. Duncan calls “an existential threat” to barnyard animals as abundant worldwide as donkeys? This is […]
“Salmon farming is an environmental disaster”
by John F. Robins, Animal Concern Scotland About thirty years ago an Animal Concern Director and I attended one of the first annual conferences of the Scottish fish farming industry. It was held in a wee hall in Oban and there were perhaps a hundred people attending. A student from University of Stirling gave a […]
“Ethnic cleansing” kills 57 Japanese snow monkeys
Eugenics in the monkey house CHIBA, Japan––The Takagoyama Nature Zoo in Chiba, capital of Chiba prefecture, Japan “has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an ‘invasive alien species,’” zoo officials admitted to Agence France Press, BBC News, Japan Times and other media on February 21, […]
Rescue, responsibility, & the need for legislation
by John F. Robins, campaigns consultant, Animal Concern Scotland Recent reports about irresponsibly rehomed animals suffering from cruelty and neglect, and attacking other animals and humans, occurring right around the world, have reminded me that nearly 30 years ago journalist John Nairn and I spent a couple of days camped on the roof of a […]
Animal Rights Action Network stages Corker of finale
Limerick’s Carmody leaves ’em laughing CORK, Ireland––Disbanding, 21 years after bringing multi-issue grassroots animal rights activism to Ireland, the Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) on October 25, 2016 finished with a rally in Cork against lackadaisical official responses to complaints about cruelty to animals. Allied animal advocacy organizations from Limerick, Clare, Galway, Dublin, Kildare, […]
Jack Woodall, 81, the James Bond of animal/human disease prevention
Cofounder of ProMED-mail LONDON, U.K.––Jack Woodall, 81, perhaps the most influential person in the animal welfare field whose name almost no one involved in animal welfare recognized, whose work helped to save countless human and animal lives, died on October 24, 2016 in London, England, where he was under treatment for pancreatic cancer. Cofounder […]
Dog attacks surge 76% in England in 10 years, coinciding with exemption of Staffordshire pit bulls from the Dangerous Dogs Act
Staffordshire exemption sentenced society to suffer mayhem Part II of a three-part series also including: How the League Against Cruel Sports is defending dogfighting and Unleashed: The Phenomena of Status Dogs and Weapon Dogs, by Simon Harding LONDON, U.K.––Dog attacks in England increased by 76% in 10 years and appear to be still rising rapidly in […]