Guest column by Katrina Love Katrina Love, of Franklin, Tasmania, Australia, describes herself as “an animal activist, politician, vegan advocate, pluviophile, photographer, writer, Earthling and animal,” and multi-time political candidate for the Animal Justice Party. Formerly campaign manager for Stop Live Exports, in Fremantle, Australia, Katrina Love continues to closely monitor live animal transports, not […]
New Balance to hop out of the kangaroo leather shoe business
Kangaroos jump for joy Down Under WASHINGTON D.C.; BOSTON, Massachusetts––“The athletic wear giant New Balance informed the Center for a Humane Economy yesterday that it has altered its sourcing policies and that the company will phase out its use of kangaroo skins and halt sales of kangaroo-based shoes by next December,” emailed Center for a […]
Greyhound racing in Macau, China runs toward oblivion
Greyhound Racing New South Wales charges 179 “industry participants” with illegally supplying the only track in China RHODES, New South Wales, Australia; MACAU, China––Charges brought against 179 Australian “industry participants” for allegedly illegally exporting greyhounds to Macau appear likely to hasten the anticipated imminent end of greyhound racing at the Macau Canidrome, the oldest […]
Videotaped Eid al Adha slaughter cruelty in Gaza shocks Australia
Damning evidence of failure of Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System GAZA, CANBERRA––Amateur videos posted to social media by witnesses to Eid al Adha slaughters in Gaza on October 15, 2013 appear to have provided some of the most damning evidence yet of the failure of the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System […]