Why Do Slaughterhouse Vigils?
It will soon be five years that I have been standing outside slaughterhouses on a weekly basis. I do my vigils as part of the Worldwide Save movement. These peaceful vigils to 'bear witness' to the lives of the animals, take place outside slaughterhouses. The aim...
Deadly Asian Wet Markets Still Operating During Pandemic
WARNING: This Peta article contains confronting images. Read it here
‘Not Your Feathers, Not Your Food’
In this article End Animal Slaughter contributor Lynley Tulloch agrees that chicken feathers do not belong in KFC packets. Neither does the chicken. (All photos accompanying this article were taken in 2018 when activists from Direct Animal Action entered a Tegel...
UK Doctors: We Need A Food System Change Now
UK-based Plant Based Health Professionals (PBHP) say the connection between major disease outbreaks and factory farming is being ‘swept under the carpet’ amid the coronavirus pandemic. While former coronavirus epicentre Wuhan has introduced a law against the breeding,...
‘Your Pain Is Mine’ Q&A: Indian Politician and Animal Activist, Maneka Sanjay Gandhi
When End Animal Slaughter's Sandra Kyle visited India in 2018 as the recipient of the Philip Wollen Animal Welfare Award, she was presented with her certificate by Maneka Gandhi, then Minister for Women and Child Development in the Narendra Modi government. Her brief...
Duck Shooting Season A Licence To Kill Endangered Native Species
On the Eve of the New Zealand duck shooting season opening, End Animal Slaughter contributor Paul Judge calls for an end to the carnage. As I write, the murderous mayhem of duck-shooting season has been given the go-ahead by the government during New Zealand's...
It’s Time To Wash The Blood Off Our Hands
We will never find peace within ourselves until we stop treating other animals so appallingly, writes End Animal Slaughter contributor, Paul Stevenson. (Featured art by Lynda Bell (artbylyndabell.com). Although the nature/nurture debate has raged for decades,...
Is Eating Meat ‘Sinful’?
The remark this week by American broadcaster Jim Cramer that ‘Eating animals is dirty, broken and sinful’ prompted End Animal Slaughter's Sandra Kyle to consider why so many Christians continue to eat meat. In animal rights circles, you don’t often see the...
Factory farms are manufacturing our modern diseases
KEY POINTS - As well as Covid-10, this century we’ve had a long list of diseases spilled over from animals. - The number is increasing in recent years owing to population increase, global travel and trade, and also in the ways modern farming forces humans, animals...
Mother’s Day: Nothing To Celebrate For Animals Raised For Food
It is May 10th - Mother’s Day - when we celebrate the sacred bond between mother and child. Mother-Infant bonding is strong in nearly all species, but the animal agriculture industry holds this natural bond in contempt. Dairy mothers have their babies taken away from...
Unholy Abuse Of Animals To The Holy Land: Live Export To Israel
KEY POINTS: Israel's State Comptroller this week issued a report confirming the cruelty of live shipments. Ships are often in poor condition, suffering from insufficient ventilation, high temperatures and humidity. Animals are forced to live in their own excrement;...
Millions Of Farm Animals Culled In Response To The Covid-19 Pandemic
KEY POINTS Worker illness because of Covid-19 in US meatpacking plants has shut down meat-processing plants and forced remaining facilities to slow production. American farmers are still raising chickens, beef cattle and hogs (pigs) but fewer places are available to...
Voices for Animals: Lyn White, Animals Australia
Lyn White is known for many things, including her extraordinary personal courage, her commitment to animals, and her desire to make the world a better place for both animals and people. In this article, End Animal Slaughter's Sandra Kyle pays tribute to her work. ...
Fetal bovine serum – another ethical problem within the dairy and slaughter industries
What could be more barbaric than taking an unborn fetus, draining its blood, and then throwing it on a pile to be discarded? End Animal Slaughter's Sandra Kyle writes about yet another horror at the slaughterhouse, a direct product of the dairy industry: the...
Isn’t It Time We Extended Our ‘Bubble’ To Include Sentient Pigs?
End Animal Slaughter contributor Sarah Oliver asks us to use our experience in lockdown to empathise with the plight of mother pigs. I am so grateful to live in New Zealand. Strong and compassionate leadership that values science and puts people lives first feels...
Coronavirus adds to the woes of already disadvantaged slaughterhouse workers
Key Points: - Infections have spread in at least 48 US meatpacking plants, sickening more than 2,200 people and killing 17. - Coronavirus has already closed some Smithfield and JBS meatpacking plants, but many more are at risk. - Rates of infection in the nation's...
COVID-19 – It’s Time To Leave Behind Inhumane Practices For Good
The Chinese government is promoting a bear bile derivative as a cure for Covid 19, without any evidence that it would work. As a result there could be an upsurge in the demand for bears for this cruel and inhumane treatment. The US is proposing The Bear Protection...
Factory farms should close, effective immediately
In this Sentient Media article, Nico Stubler and Jeff Stebo argue that closing down wet markets is not enough. An immediate ban on factory farming is necessary to prevent pandemics from arising in the future. Read the article here
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...