Meteor, the fugitive from slaughter, will probably have his life spared
It is not only Meteor the fugitive yak who should be spared from slaughter. All animals should be, writes End Animal Slaughter contributor LYNLEY TULLOCH When animals escape from the slaughter house truck, there is often media interest. I often wonder what...
REFLECTIONS FROM A TRAVELLING VEGAN
End Animal Slaughter contributor MAYA COHEN-ROHEN'S family getaway triggered reflections on the ugly reality behind New Zealand's picturesque fields and peaceful herds. A ski-ing holiday was just the ticket for vegan mother and author, Maya Cohen-Ronen ...
Q&A: Tara Jackson, Executive Director, New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society
All Over the World animals live barren lives in laboratory cages, and endure painful and disfiguring procedures in the name of science. But it is 'bad science', producing invalid results, and superior alternatives to cruel animal testing now exist. It is time to...
Voices For Animals Across The Years: Donald Watson, Father of the Vegan Movement
Vegetarianism has been around for a very long time. Some ancient Greek philosophers, such as Epicurus, advocated abstaining from animal flesh, and the religious sects of Buddhism and Hinduism have encouraged vegetarianism for hundreds of years. Although it is not...
Slaughterhouse Vigil, Whanganui, New Zealand 1 September 2019
End Animal Slaughter website owner Sandra Kyle has been attending and documenting slaughterhouse vigils for years, the last several under The Save Movement banner. This is her latest vigil, at the AFFCO Imlay slaughterhouse in Whanganui, New Zealand. ...
Commercially produced free-range eggs come at a terrible price
Many people defend their consumption of eggs by claiming they only buy free-range. But the premium price they pay includes the maceration of billions of baby roosters every year. End Animal Slaughter guest contributor JOY ANN SATCHELL explains why. So...
The Enlightened Omnivore
Our ability to eat many kinds of foods has led to our success as a species. But continuing to eat other animals is ethically unacceptable because of the immeasurable suffering it causes, writes End Animal Slaughter Contributor PAUL STEVENSON. Man the...
Rivers of Blood Flow in Religion’s Name
Muslim festival Eid al-Adha was completed this week with the 'sacrifice' of hundreds of millions of animals worldwide (10 million in Pakistan alone). Every Eid, in designated areas, rivers of blood flow and blood and animal carcasses litter the streets. ...
Voices for Animals Across The Years: Emilie “Lizzy” Lind af Hageby
A remarkable early vegan dedicated her life to ending vivisection, as well as the protection and rights of animals Emilie Augusta Louise "Lizzy" Lind af Hageby (20 September 1878 – 26 December 1963) was a Swedish-born British feminist and animal advocate who...
Connecting With Other Animals Acknowledges Our Kinship With Them
End Animal Slaughter contributor LYNLEY TULLOCH reflects on our lack of connectedness with other animals, and how we can turn it around The notion of intimacy, the feeling of closeness and connection, is linked to a sense of belonging. When we connect with...
THAILAND’S SHAME IS TYPICAL OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN SLAUGHTERHOUSES
South-East Asian slaughterhouses are clearly among the worst in the world. No humane slaughter standards are enforced, and sentient beings are violently clubbed to death. There is little concept of animals as sentient beings, or animal cruelty, in these countries...
Changing The World In Bite-Sized Chunks
Veganism offers an immediate and logical alternative to the reality of the slaughterhouse, writes PAUL TRITSCHLER. The author recounts childhood memories of roughly handled and severely distressed chickens, and a pig born on a slaughter truck sliding out of the slats...
It’s Time For A New Ethic In Our Relationship With Other Animals
Our treatment of farmed animals is a serious moral transgression, writes End Animal Slaughter contributor LYNLEY TULLOCH. We’ve all had a bad day every now and again. Some are worse than others, involving a threat to our lives or our safety. Imagine if that...
‘Thumping’ and other slaughterhouse terms
Do you know what ‘Thumping’ or ‘PACing’ means? It is a slaughterhouse term used to kill piglets (and also baby goats) by swinging them around and pounding their heads against concrete. The act of murdering innocent animals in slaughterhouses, and the cruel...
‘There Is a Sense of Trust Between Us’
This moving story of human/non-human friendship is one of the most unusual we have seen. It is the story of a Japanese Diver and his friend Yoriko, a humphead wrasse. The wrasse is a large, diverse and remarkable fish. There are more than 600 species of wrasse,...
‘An Earth Without Insects?’
Eighty percent of the biomass of insects has disappeared in just thirty years, and intensive agriculture, particularly the heavy use of pesticides, is the main driver of this collapse. The decline in populations worldwide is devastating not only for the...
Slaughterhouse Vigil, Land Meats, Whanganui, NZ: 28 July 2019
End Animal Slaughter website owner Sandra Kyle does regular weekly, or twice-weekly, slaughterhouse vigils in her home town of Whanganui, New Zealand, under The Save Movement banner. Sandra has been bearing witness to animals going to slaughter for nearly four years,...
They Tried to Escape Their Fate
Standing at slaughterhouse gates bearing witness to the animals, Save Movement activists all over the world take photos and videos to share on social media. This documentation clearly show that animals are worried and fearful. On the trucks going to the...
A Plate of Scrambled – Roosters?
What's behind your plate of scrambled eggs? End Animal Slaughter guest contributor SARAH OLIVER reminds us of a couple of things we may have overlooked. It often crosses my mind that our ability to ignore the blindingly obvious makes us, and those we share the...
Q&A: Casper Hilt, Full-time Animal Activist
Jobless and without a home, 36-year-old Danish activist CASPER HILT works 60 hours a week to change the reality for sentient beings. Was there anything in your background that set you on your path to animal activism? Personally, I have experienced a lot of...