Facing Our Global Crisis: A Time For Reflection And Awakening
This article by End Animal Slaughter contributor Dr Joanne Kong provides a profound and timely message: Covid-19 is an opportunity for reflection and change, to "move beyond self-interest, material gain, division and conflict, to an elevated awareness that we are all...
‘The Root of the Problem is Eating Animals’
Like much of the rest of the world, New Zealand is in lockdown because of Covid-19. Only the 'essential' services continue. The New Zealand government has stated that slaughterhouses are an essential service. In this article End Animal Slaughter contributor Dr...
Scalded to death because they cannot lay eggs
A worker in a Chinese hatchery uses a net to kill newly born male chicks in hot water. As their little heads bob up, he pushes them down with a wooden spoon while thousands of other fluffy babies await their turn. After dying in agony, these babies' feathers are...
The Madness of Eating Animals (Video)
In this video featuring well known activist Gary Yourofsky we are invited to consider the madness of using live, terrified, innocent sentient beings for our food. We see how the animals arrive in trucks at the slaughterhouse, terrified, knowing what’s going to...
Damned if they do, and damned if they don’t
Do we really think that cows (or other animals) in line for slaughter don’t suspect what’s about to happen to them? Don’t they have the senses of hearing, smell and vision, and a brain to process the information it receives, just as we do? Make no mistake, cows...
A ‘Most Despicable Form of Schooling’
In New Zealand, school children are encouraged by teachers and parents to kill wild animals as part of a government-led initiative to eradicate so-called ‘pests’. In this article Professor Emeritus Marc Bekoff calls out NZ communities who practice this, pointing...
Calves necks ‘sawed’ in French slaughterhouse
In this recent undercover video taken in a large French slaughterhouse we see terrified calves forced into a stun box and their neck severed in a sawing motion, a drawn out and agonisingly painful process for the baby animal. This particular slaughterhouses kills a...
Why Vivisection is ethically wrong, cruel and unnecessary
Testing to find a cure to the coronavirus Covid 19 is currently underway, using laboratory monkeys. However, vivisection is a cruel, ineffective and out-dated way to find cures for human ailments. Millions of animals suffer and die every day in laboratories...
Slaughterhouse workers also deserve our compassion
Animal activist Amy Jones and her partner witnessed brutal pig slaughter in a Cambodian abattoir - but felt no hate for the slaughterers. Quotes: 'Eventually, the workers rose from their hammocks, picked up their knives, and approached the animals in pairs....
Joachin Phoenix is right. We are guilty of a moral atrocity.
Key Points Joaquin Phoenix has gotten his share of mockery for talking about factory farming and animal rights in his Oscars acceptance speech but he is absolutely right. As countless undercover investigations have shown, the more than 100 billion animals...
IT IS TIME TO CLOSE LIVE ANIMAL MARKETS ACROSS ASIA
Key Points: We need to take measures to reduce the chances of life-threatening viruses issuing from 'wet markets' ever happening again. The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, despite its name, does not sell just seafood – also available were hundreds of live...
OLD MACDONALD HAD A MACHETE, EE AYE EE AYE OH!
The disconnect between what goes on in animal agriculture and the image that is projected to the young could not be more evident than in our featured video from PETA. Animals on farms undergo painful procedures such as de-horning, ear and tail docking,...
Cruel but lucrative shark finning still practiced worldwide to supply Asian market
This week nearly $1,000,000 of shark fins hidden in boxes were seized by US customs officials. Thought to have originated in South America, they were destined for Asia. Up to 100 million sharks are harvested each year for their fins. The illicit practice,...
Lambs thrown and kicked and slaughtered fully conscious in Spanish slaughterhouse
When Animal Rights group Equalia breached security at a Spanish slaughterhouse and installed CCTV cameras they captured footage of terrified and confused baby sheep being thrown and kicked from one area to another. Instead of being stunned before slaughter, the...
Voices for Animals Across the Years – Heli Dungler 1963-2020
A jackdaw Heli Dungler rescued as a child and kept as a pet is credited with his realisation that wild animals needed to be in their own environment, with their own kind. “She had fallen out of the nest and I took her home and raised her” he said. ”She accompanied me...
DEATH, MUTILATION AND DISEASE – THE REALITY OF GOAT MILK FARMING
Key Points: Many people switch from cow's milk to goat's milk because they think it's more humane, but all the problems that exist to produce cow's milk exist in goat farming too. In many parts of the world Saanen goats are the breed of choice in intensive goat...
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...