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...
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...