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...
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...