Threat of rockets deters livestock shippers but not Beirut cat rescuers STRAIT OF HORMUZ, BEIRUT––Crisis situations involving animals and war were just behind the headlines in New York City’s two most prestigious newspapers on the morning of Friday the 13th of March 2026, without animals ever being mentioned. Bombing in Lebanon brought disaster to both […]
The Beirut explosion one year later, by Jason Mier, Animals Lebanon
[Contact Jason Mier & Animals Lebanon c/o jason@animalslebanon.org.] On the afternoon of 4 August 2020, our lives exploded. 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate [a byproduct of manure from factory-farmed chickens], had been stored at the Beirut port, in the heart of the city, for six years. At 6:08 p.m. on August 4, 2020 this caught […]
Chickens were the most numerous casualties of the Beirut explosion
Animals Lebanon & Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals scramble to aid animal survivors BEIRUT, Lebanon––How many chickens lived and died to blow up Beirut? Probably millions, but that toll––like all others pertaining to animals––eludes estimation from the available data about the August 4, 2020 ammonium nitrate explosion that killed at least 158 […]