by Sandra Kyle | Sep 7, 2021 | animals in captivity, Animals in Research, fur farming, Sentience
While our current civilisation is the most enlightened we continue to wreak extreme suffering and death on sentient non-human animals. Future generations will regard this as the greatest moral failure of our time. Yet while modern exploitation of animals for...
by Sandra Kyle | Feb 9, 2021 | animals in captivity, Animals in Research, fur farming, wildlife
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...
by Sandra Kyle | Dec 15, 2020 | animals in captivity
Humans have used, abused and slaughtered other animals since we have been walking upright. The power imbalance between us and other animals means that it is at best difficult, at worst futile, for them to resist us. But there have always been ‘rebel’...
by Sandra Kyle | Apr 20, 2020 | animals in captivity, ocean
‘If Honey’s death wasn’t tragic enough, even more so is the fact that even after getting international attention, she could not escape her tiny watery prison and spent the last year and a half of her life miserable. What about all the other captive marine animals...
by Sandra Kyle | Apr 17, 2020 | animals in captivity, wildlife
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...
by Sandra Kyle | Apr 15, 2020 | animals in captivity, ocean, Sentience
TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE DOLPHIN. This is the day we remember these wonderful mammals, and also the particular ways we continue to harm them. Here are a few facts about dolphins: Wild dolphins travel in extended family groupings called pods. A pod of wild...
