Contemporary Voices for Animals: DXE’s WAYNE HSIUNG
Direction Action Everywhere's Wayne Hsiung has drawn on his background to shape the grassroots group he founded into one of the most influential animal rights organisations in the world. The following is an excerpt from Wired Magazine's recent article about Hsiung and...
Ex-racehorse found starving nine months later
The recent expose by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation showed champion racehorses ending their days in a Queensland slaughterhouse being abused by sadistic staff. The Australian racing authorities promote a 'retirement plan' so racehorses can live out their...
PIG FARM LIKE ‘STEPPING INTO HELL’
Today grassroots animal action group Direct Action Everywhere (DXE) entered a pig breeding farm in Quebec and refused to leave. Videos posted by members of the protest group show animals covered in filth, scrambling for food, crammed into tiny spaces without room turn...
SHOCKING CRUELTY EQUALS STANDARD PRACTICE IN SLAUGHTER INDUSTRY
Secret cameras in recent years have exposed the shocking reality of what goes on behind closed doors of slaughterhouses. Slaughterhouses are a blight on our humanity and must be closed down. Read the Sentient Media article, and watch the video. WARNING: Contains...
Avian Agony: A tragic incident highlights the reality for billions of chickens in the meat industry
The suffocation this week of nearly 200,000 broiler chickens owing to equipment failure in Helensville, New Zealand, is profoundly shocking. It is especially heartbreaking for those who know what beautiful, sentient chickens routinely go through in commercial poultry...
Barbaric religious ritual needs to be stopped forever
The largest and bloodiest animal sacrifice on the planet is currently taking place in a remote corner of Nepal, in defiance of a 2015 supreme court ruling that the five-yearly bloodbath should not go ahead in 2019. In a field near the small temple of Bariyapur,...
In the wake of Lewis the Koala’s death, there is Hope
Millions are grieving the death of Lewis the Koala but his legacy will live on, writes End Animal Slaughter contributor LYNLEY TULLOCH. Ellenborough Lewis - or Lewis for short – has died. The rescued koala received substantial burns in the bushfires in...
SLAUGHTERHOUSE VIGIL, Whanganui, NZ, 14 November, 2019
End Animal Slaughter's Sandra Kyle has been doing weekly or twice-weekly slaughterhouse vigils for the international Save Movement for around four years, much of that time standing on her own. Here is her account of her latest vigil. As you wander up and down...
VOICES FOR ANIMALS ACROSS THE YEARS: GAIL EISNITZ
GAIL EISNITZ has a unique place in the history of Animal Rights. Fearlessly and relentlessly, armed only with her compassion and desire for truth, she entered the world of the US Animal Slaughter industry. The horrors she encountered led to her groundbreaking book...
TONGUE-TIED, BEATEN, CURSED AND MURDERED – The Trajedy of the Horseracing Industry
Responding to the recent Australian Broadcasting Corporation's expose End Animal Slaughter contributor LYNLEY TULLOCH says we shouldn't be tongue-tied in speaking out against the abuse of racehorses. The recent Melbourne Cup event, where yet another horse was...
Here’s The Rest Of Your Fur Coat!
PETA'S campaign to highlight the cruelty of fur fashion - 'Here's The Rest Of Your Fur Coat' - hit a nerve with a lot of people. Only this week the Palace has announced that the Queen will only be wearing new garments with faux fur in the future, representing 95% of...
Using the Whip in Thoroughbred Racing – Frequently Asked Questions
In the 2019 Melbourne Cup held this week second placegetter New Zealand jockey Michael Walker ,(seen in featured photo), was fined $10,000 and given a riding ban for over-whipping his horse, Prince of Arran. Using the whip in thoroughbred horseracing has come under...
‘Humane’ Torture – how pigs are stunned in slaughterhouses
Pigs have the intelligence of a three year old child. They are curious, insightful, non-aggressive, social, and form close bonds with other individuals. When raised for slaughter, they typically live in extremely cruel factory farm conditions. The abuse of these...
Bear Bile Farming – The Worst Form of Animal Cruelty
Bear-bile farming as it is carried out in various parts of Asia is one of the worst torments of sentient beings imaginable. Read about the 'whys' and 'hows' of bear-bile farming in this article and see how you can support the efforts of Animals Asia. Their aim is...
The Vegan Backlash – A Sure Sign We’re Winning
Gandhi once said: ‘First they ignore you, Then they laugh at you, Then they fight you, Then you win’. As the vegan movement continues its unstoppable march into the mainstream, it is predictable that the backlash will grow. This can be seen in more and more...
SLAUGHTERHOUSE VIGIL, LAND MEATS WHANGANUI, NEW ZEALAND
End Animal Slaughter's SANDRA KYLE does twice-weekly vigils near her home in Whanganui, New Zealand. These photographs are from her latest vigil. The beautiful beings in my photos were among 150 or so cows waiting at a slaughterhouse to be killed. I...
Dog and Pig: Speciesism explained
Why do we love one and eat another? In this short article End Animal Slaughter's SANDRA KYLE outlines the meaning of the word 'speciesism'. Human relationships with non-human animals are not straightforward. They are contradictory, and differ according to...
Pigs in Peril: Slaughterhouse deregulation in the US
Gail A. Eisnitz, author of ‘Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry’, and 2004 winner of the Albert Schweitzer Medal, is the author of our featured article. In December this year, the U.S. Department...
‘Every horse can’t be a winner. What can they do with these horses?’ Interview with a kill buyer.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's expose this week on the abbatoir fate of ex racehorses has shocked the world. This article that first appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald shows that despite pleading ignorance about how many ex racehorses end up as horse...
‘Violent, gory and agonising’ – the tragic fate of ex-racehorses
This week the Australian Broadcasting Corporation aired a programme about the fate of ex champion racehorses who, instead of being retired to live out their lives in peace and safety, ended up in abattoirs and knackeries. Shocking undercover footage taken in...