Feminist Ferals by Arian D. Wallach Produced by Tommy Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpx-ZHHWN5s&t=2s This video explores how conservation remains tethered to chauvinistic ideologies. It explores how archaic beliefs about animals, wildlife, and nature, has erased one of the Earth’s most significant rewilding events in recent history. Feminism would radically reshape conservation and our view of nature. It […]
Pro-animal ballot initiatives win big; mixed results for candidates
Anti-animal protection candidates Steve King & Marsha Blackburn return to Congress WASHINGTON D.C.––The November 6, 2018 election of a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives improves chances of successful defenses of the Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, and Animal Welfare Act against Republican attempts to dilute or at least weaken enforcement […]
Hen caging & greyhound racing go before voters in 2018 election
Animal advocates & agribusiness split over California Proposition 12; Republicans split over Florida Proposition 13 SACRAMENTO, California; ORLANDO, Florida––The axiom that animal politics cut diagonally across partisan divides could scarcely be better illustrated than by the alignments for and against the two major ballot initiatives on animal issues going before voters on November 6, […]
HSUS election picks are too few to stop the Trump juggernaut
Humane Society Legislative Fund fails to endorse enough Democratic challengers to slow anti-animal Republican momentum in the U.S. House & Senate WASHINGTON D.C.––If voters who care about animals follow the recommendations of the Humane Society Legislative Fund arm of the Humane Society of the U.S. at the polls on election day, November 6, 2018, […]
“Meat-eating is never neutral”: Mary Midgely, 99
Author of Animals & Why They Matter NEWCASTLE ON TYNE, United Kingdom––“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral,” wrote Mary Midgely on page 27 of her 1983 opus Animals & Why They Matter. “To himself,” Midgely observed, “the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There […]
Wyoming trophy hunters blame mountain goats for lack of bighorn
Shaky science may doom mountain goats in their own habitat JACKSON, Wyoming––Mountain goats, already scapegoated for much else, are now blamed and are perhaps at risk of massacre in Wyoming for allegedly transmitting ovine pneumonia––a common disease of domestic sheep––to the isolated remnant bighorn sheep of the Grand Tetons. Along with the shaky identification […]
1,000 wild horses expelled from the Devil’s Garden
Largest wild horse herd in California to be thinned in the Modoc National Forest ALTURAS, California––Heavy rains brought the largest wild horse population in California a short reprieve before the start of potentially the most controversial wild horse gather of 2018. But the rains gave the horses just one more day to run free. Modoc […]
Disease linked to cockfighting menaces California poultry industry
Gamecocks carrying Newcastle disease to domestic flocks killed millions in 1971 and 2003 LOS ANGELES––The billion-dollar-a-year California poultry industry is betting the farm that state and federal authorities can get a two-year series of outbreaks of Newcastle disease under control before it becomes the biggest threat to profits in decades. An outbreak discovered in […]
“Natural” horse herd control advocate Sussman loses ranch
International Society for the Protection of Mustangs & Burros is sued for unpaid rent EAGLE BUTTE, South Dakota––Attorney, author, and marine biologist John Christopher Fine, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on August 29, 2018 sued the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs & Burros and society president Karen Sussman, “seeking nearly $135,000 in delinquent rent,” reported Seth Tupper […]
Bleak future for Kenya donkeys, sold to slaughter or left to go feral
Beasts of burden for 5,000 years, but now out of work NAIROBI, NAIVASHA, Kenya––Donkeys in Kenya, as in much of the rest of the developing world, are rapidly disappearing, but not all in the same direction. Some are trucked to slaughter; others gallop into the bush. Tens of thousands of Kenyan donkeys have already […]
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