Extreme cruelty to cows documented at large Texas ‘organic’ dairy farm
An undercover investigator working for Animal Recovery Mission (ARM) documented animal abuse and cruelty at Natural Prairie Dairy, a certified ‘organic’ dairy farm in Texas, United States. Cows were repeatedly and violently inseminated and mother cows were...
Vigil at Chicken Slaughterhouse, Auckland, NZ, 17 January 2020
The Animal Save Movement is a global organisation which holds peaceful vigils outside slaughter houses. The key objective of Animal Save is to 'bear witness' to farm animals in their final moments before they enter the slaughter house to be killed. There are...
FARMING IS ‘A NUMBERS GAME’
In remote stations in the Australian outback, sick animals are left to starve or be shot, sometimes with cheap bullets that don’t kill the animals outright causing them acute suffering. Workers routinely abuse the animals, kicking and punching cows in the face,...
SLAUGHTERHOUSE WORKER ‘HAUNTED’ BY EYES IN DECAPITATED HEADS
Author Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel ‘The Jungle’ created such a public outcry at the time that it led to the Pure Food and Drug Act being passed by Congress. The reaction of the public to his novel, written to portray the cruel treatment of animals and harsh...
Great White abused on Auckland beach
At a popular beach on the upper reaches of coastal Auckland on the second day of the new year, a crowd gathered around an unusual sight: that of a Great White Shark slowly dying on the beach. The 2.75 female had apparently been netted on purpose (against the Law as...
They Aint Going To The Party – The Dark Side of Horseracing
A highlight of the New Zealand Social Calendar is the Boxing Day Races, held at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland. The 160-year institution sports the Queen City's most colourful fashion, hospitality and entertainment. Racegoers converge to imbibe food and alcohol, to...
Their foie gras won a medal, but this is how their ducks are treated!
Foie gras, (French: “fat liver”), a delicacy that belongs to the ‘protected cultural and gastronomical heritage of France’, is the liver of a goose or duck that has been fattened by a process of force-feeding. The practice has its roots in ancient Egypt, and was...
End Animal Slaughter's SANDRA KYLE does weekly vigils at slaughterhouses in her home town of Whanganui (New Zealand) under the worldwide Animal Save banner. In her latest blog she writes that sheep are much more intelligent and emotional than we give them credit for....
Vegan Presidential Contender Wants To Ditch Factory Farms
United States Presidential Contender Cory Booker has a plan to ditch factory farms. If implemented, this would be a leap forward towards the end of all animal agriculture. Read the Live Kindly article here.
If Only They Could Cry Out…. Farmed Fish So Depressed They’re Giving Up On Life
"Fish in aquaculture farms are forced to live in crowded tanks and endure unwanted interactions with other fish, handling by humans, struggles to get food, and sudden changes in lighting, water depth and currents. Just like pigs and chickens, fish in intensive farms...
Ducks Out of Water: The Cruel Reality of Duck Factory Farming
Farmed ducks, like other poultry raised for food, suffer greatly. As with all intensively farmed animals, ducks in factory farms are deprived of their most basic needs. They would like to be able to fly, forage, choose a mate and live for 15 years or more,...
End Animal Slaughter's Sandra Kyle does solitary slaughterhouse vigils as part of the worldwide Save movement. In her latest blog she reflects on changes that have taken place in the last seventy years, and predicts a world without slaughterhouses as an imminent...
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...