Stars endangered Atlantic sturgeon BUCHANAN, New York––Debuting at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and rapidly advancing to the 2015 Tribecca Film Festival, the Ivy Meerpool documentary Indian Point features environmental journalist Roger Witherspoon and his wife, anti-nuclear power activist Marilyn Elie; former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair Gregory Jaczko, who was forced to resign after […]
California sea lions, starving in their rookeries, take heat for salmon losses
Marine mammal rescuers struggle for the third consecutive winter with effects of global warming ASTORIA, Oregon; SAN FRANCISCO, California––From the Channel Islands to the Farallons, the heart of California sea lion breeding habitat, marine mammal rescuers are struggling for the third consecutive winter to save some of what appears to be fast becoming a lost […]
Fish found to have cognitive & cooperative abilities perhaps superior to those of Members of Congress
Findings with the potential to transform the entire human perspective on fish WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. President Barack Obama on June 17, 2014 “will announce his intent to make a broad swath of the central Pacific Ocean off-limits to fishing, energy exploration and other activities,” Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post disclosed at noon on June […]
EPA urges power plants to quit cooking fish & crustaceans alive
“You have to look at the impact on aquatic life” WASHINGTON D.C.––Acting on behalf of at least 2.1 billion sentient beings per year who are pureed or boiled alive, to little public notice, the Environmental Protection Agency on May 19, 2014 issued final rules for water use in the cooling systems of electrical generating […]
Fish Feel founded to promote recognition that fish suffer
“Fish are sentient individuals” Your discussion of the 2010 Guardian article “Peter Singer speaks against cruelty to fish” (http://www.animals24-7.org/2013/11/22/peter-singer-s…ruelty-to-fish/ ) was much appreciated. Fish are sentient individuals, as has been scientifically shown. Among other important qualities, they are perceptive, communicative, and personable. For example, groupers use body gestures to invite eels to […]
Peter Singer speaks against cruelty to fish
PRINCETON––Princeton University bioethicist Peter Singer, whose 1975 book Animal Liberation helped to ignite the animal rights movement, recalled in a 2010 guest column for The Guardian, of London, that some of his first awareness of animal suffering came during childhood walks with his father. “My father told me that he could not understand how anyone […]
Mercy for Animals exposes cruelty at a Texas factory catfish farm
First undercover video from inside the catfishing industry DALLAS––Probably more fish consumers were puzzled––at first––than shocked on January 19, 2011 when Mercy for Animals released undercover video of alleged criminal animal abuse at Catfish Corner, in eastern Dallas County. “I don’t get too many calls about inhumaneness to fish,” Dallas fish market owner Rex […]
Scientists confirm: Hurt crabs feel pain
And try to avoid it BELFAST–Hermit crabs feel pain when injured and change their behavior to avoid the source of pain, reported Robert Elwood of the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on March 27, 2009. “With vertebrates we are asked to err on the side of caution and I believe this is the approach to take […]
Finding the sentience of fish
Credit scientific discovery. Credit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Credit Finding Nemo, the latest pro-animal animated production in a 64-year string from Walt Disney Productions. Whatever the reason, humans around the world are suddenly talking about the suffering of fish as never before. The first paragraphs of previews of Finding Nemo tell the story: * New York […]
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