Promising abolition of live exports, King Charles III of U.K. demonstrates why EATS would be the shits for poultry, pigs, & cattle LONDON, U.K.; WASHINGTON D.C.––Kings of England, Scotland, and Wales have not had a say in the passage of United States legislation since 1776, when the Thirteen Colonies and Vermont gave the British […]
Will County, Illinois charges another charro with charreada cruelty
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drone video again provides evidence JOLIET, Illinois––The ongoing Showing Animals Respect & Kindness campaign to document animal abuse at unsanctioned charreada “Mexican style” rodeos in the greater Chicago area on November 8, 2023 brought criminal charges against a charreada participant for the seventh time in two years. “The Will County […]
Gaza cats hide, dogs run, & donkeys go on working amid Israeli bombing
Animal rescue activity is nearly completed in evacuated parts of Israel attacked by Hamas AL ZAHRA, Gaza; TEL AVIV, Israel––Amid the explosions and chaos of the Israeli Defense Force incursion to destroy Hamas tunnels, dogs run, cats hide, and the Gaza donkeys go on working. Indeed, the surviving Gaza donkeys are working perhaps harder than […]
Wild horses chased by choppers in U.S.; shot from choppers in Australia
Australia has no Wild & Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act DAVIS, California; SYDNEY, Australia––“Now through February,” American Wild Horse Campaign currently warns via social media, “over 7,000 wild horses will be chased by helicopters, ripped from their families, injured, or in the worst case, killed. “The survivors will be funneled into overburdened holding facilities, sometimes […]
Sixty million farmed animals get help from new USDA organic standards
New USDA organic rule does what consumers thought the Organic Standards Act did back in 1990 WASHINGTON D.C.––Sixty million farmed animals may benefit from the Organic Livestock & Poultry Standards final rule previewed on October 25, 2023 by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The final rule comes 33 years after the passage of the 1990 Organic […]
Charreada steer-tailing & horse-tripping defense flunks history, art, & logic
Purported “historical” defense of steer-tailing & horse-tripping misrepresents sources For about as long as it took Mexican American Classic Charrería Organization founder and president Edward F. Ramirez to send ANIMALS 24-7 an email back on October 3, 2023, Ramirez appeared to make common cause with Showing Animals Respect & Kindness in denouncing charreada animal abuse. […]
Israel & Gaza: “More & more animals with burns, open wounds”
Dairy cattle, sheep, & goats occupy the no-man’s-land as Israeli tanks roll toward Gaza City GAZA CITY, TEL AVIV–– “Our team are out there non-stop. We’re getting more and more cats and dogs with burns, open wounds, broken limbs, and the list goes on and on,” posted the Israeli organization Let The Animals Live […]
Israel & Gaza: dogs, cats, donkeys, cattle, sheep, & chickens under fire
Animal casualties could outnumber the human deaths, but no one seems to be counting RAMAT GAN, Israel; GAZA CITY, Gaza––“The war is still going on,” Sulala Animal Rescue founder Saeed Al Err posted to Facebook from Gaza City as a fifth day of intense combat drew to a close in Gaza and adjacent parts […]
The USDA “milk mandate”: a black-&-white issue on school lunch trays
Bill to reform the USDA “milk mandate” could save 21,500 calves per year born to cows milked for the National School Lunch Program WASHINGTON D.C.–– The title of the Addressing Digestive Distress in Stomachs of Our Youth (ADD SOY) Act offers little hint that it might be considered either a civil rights bill or an animal […]
Charreada horse beater Christofer Dorado charged in Joliet, Illinois
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness video shows what Dorado did. Court to decide if beatings were crimes. JOLIET, Illinois––The People of the State of Illinois, represented by the 12th Judicial Circuit Court in Joliet, county seat for Will County, on October 3, 2023 brought two misdemeanor cruelty charges against horse-beater Christofer Dorado, of Batavia, Illinois. […]