There is no such thing as an ethical carnivore
In 2016 British author and journalist Louise Gray wrote a book entitled 'The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing To Eat'. In this Guardian article she describes her visit to a pig slaughterhouse for the first time. "I follow Phil into the “killing room” and force...
Behaviour Of Top Trainer and Jockey Damages Public Perception Of Horseracing
A bizarre (for some heartbreaking) photo and video of two separate incidents surfaced this week, delivering a grievous blow to the horseracing industry. The photo was of top Irish trainer Gordon Elliot sitting down on a newly dead horse while talking on the phone and...
It’s Time For A Sea Change In Our Thinking About Fishes
We slaughter fish in their trillions every year, and force them to lead lives of prolonged suffering in aquaculture operations. The majority of scientists now agree that fish are sentient, but what about their intelligence? Because they live in an environment that...
Q&A: Matt Ellerbeck, Snake Advocate
SNAKES are amazing creatures. They hear with their mouths, smell with their tongue, dislocate their jaws to swallow prey many times larger than themselves, and their species both lays eggs and gives birth live. They form bonds with other snakes, and at least one...
The Horse Who Couldn’t Run Fast Enough – The Sad Fate of Wonder Dreamer’s Foal
It is a heartbreaking picture, snapped with a cellphone. A young horse, not yet two years old, has just arrived at a slaughterhouse in South Korea. The position of his ears show a heightened state of alertness, and blood trickles from his left nostril. He looks as...
Death By A Thousand Cuts – How we Make Farmed Animals Suffer In The Slaughter Process
In this article End Animal Slaughter contributor Lynley Tulloch claims that the suffering of animals sent to slaughter is far from instantaneous. (All photos taken at slaughterhouses in Whanganui, New Zealand, by Sandra Kyle) A recent article in Stuff claimed...
STANDING UP FOR GREYHOUNDS – New Zealand’s First Trackside Greyhound Racing Protest
On 19 February End Animal Slaughter's Sandra Kyle (Whanganui Animal Save) was joined in front of Hatrick Stadium by several others to protest greyhound racing. Here is her report. Seven people turned up at our greyhound racing protest today, the first...
They Are Not Yours To Roast: Animals Who Flee The Slaughterhouse
End Animal Slaughter Contributor Lynley Tulloch writes that animals who flee the slaughterhouse should never have been there in the first place. Shrek is our famous Merino New Zealand sheep who gained notoriety in 2004 by evading shearers for six years and...
A Sea Of Suffering: The Cruel Reality Of Salmon Farming
In the aquaculture industry, animals live in disgusting and stressful conditions, and are often fully conscious during slaughter and die a slow, painful death as they bleed out or suffocate. Yet another investigation has recently revealed a salmon farm carrying out...
An Indictment Of What Is And Should Never Again Be – The ‘Invisible’ Animals In Our Lives
In a powerful new book co-edited by Jo-Anne McArthur, "Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene", 30 award-winning photojournalists shine a light through their photography on the 'invisible' animals in our lives - the ones we eat, wear, use for research, work and...
The Invisible Threat To Our Ocean Wildlife: Noise Pollution
Over the past 50 years increased human activity in the oceans has escalated noise pollution affecting, sometimes catastrophically, animals who live in the sea. Recent studies suggest that noise pollution can harm whales and dolphins directly by driving them away,...
Slaughterhouse Work Is A Dying Trade – It’s Time To Shut Their Doors
It is impossible to slaughter sentient beings all day long and not be affected by it psychologically. This is a brutal and brutalising Industry that harms people as well as killing animals. Slaughterhouses need not, and should not, exist in the 2020s. As this...
Speciesism and Double Standards in the Veterinary Profession: It’s Time For Change
It's time that Veterinary Surgeons' food choices reflected the oath they take to relieve the suffering of all animals. (Article by Karen Asp reprinted from sentientmedia.org) Why Aren't Vets Vegan? Veterinarians work tirelessly to save the lives of animals,...
10 Reasons To Stop Whipping Racehorses
In this article Professor Paul McGreevy and Bidda Jones give 10 reasons why global horse racing needs to reconsider using whips. The reasons are: 1 Horses’ skin appears just as sensitive as humans’ 2 Horses’ skin is no thicker than humans’ 3 Whip-free...
Averting Our Gaze – Transportation An Ordeal For Slaughterhouse Animals
I had seen very few animal transport trucks until I moved to a rural area 12 years ago. Then I saw them everywhere. Upset to witness the forlorn faces of the sheep and cows peering out at me, I turned my gaze away. Now I no longer turn away, in fact I do the...
The Most Abused Animal On The Planet – The Chicken
In this article End Animal Slaughter Contributor Dr Lynley Tulloch remembers a newly hatched chick, and laments the cruel fate of industrially raised chickens the world over. I have always had a special place in my heart for chickens. As a 14-year-old I was...
The Age Of Extinction? Biodiversity loss and Climate Change Require New Paradigm
Key Points The planet is facing mass extinction, declining health, and climate-disruption upheavals that threaten human survival because of ignorance and inaction, state top scientists in a recent paper. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its...
Traumatic Stress – A Common Condition Among Slaughterhouse Workers
Have you ever heard of PITS (Perpetrator-Induced Traumatic Stress)? Read about how slaughterhouse workers suffer from PITS, PTSD and other syndromes in this article from SURGE. (Warning: Some readers may find content disturbing) Excerpt: “One day I dream...
‘A Revolution of Empathy’
In the soon-to-be-released film 'Gunda', about a charismatic pig, there are no humans and no musical soundtrack - just the animals themselves, going about their lives. “Every day after filming, all of my team, we felt we were...
‘You’re Going To Die You Maggot!’ – Stark Realities About The Horseracing Industry
Horse Racing is cruel to horses and must end, writes End Animal Slaughter's Sandra Kyle. On my very first visit to a racetrack in the town I live in, a horse died in front of me. Seven-year-old gelding Guy Fox had a horror fall when he collided with another...