by Sandra Kyle | Feb 19, 2020 | Animal cruelty, Animal Rights, Sentience
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...
by Sandra Kyle | Jan 28, 2020 | Mental illness in animals, Sentience, wildlife
Key Points: Zhuang Zhuang’s mother rejected him immediately after birth and tried to kill him, rare behaviour for a mother elephant. Zhuang Zhuang cried with anguish for 5 hours, tears streaming from his red eyes and down his face. There is solid...
by Sandra Kyle | Oct 26, 2019 | Animal Rights, Sentience
Why do we love one and eat another? In this short article End Animal Slaughter’s SANDRA KYLE outlines the meaning of the word ‘speciesism’. Human relationships with non-human animals are not straightforward. They are contradictory, and...
by Sandra Kyle | Oct 16, 2019 | farming, Sentience
When End Animal Slaughter’s Sandra Kyle looked after a one month old lamb she found out some endearing things about sheep. It is estimated we slaughter more than half a billion animals every single year for food, and also for religious sacrifice. See...
by Sandra Kyle | Aug 9, 2019 | Evolution, factory farming, Mental illness in animals, Sentience, wildlife
It seems self-evident that animals, who suffer from the same physical diseases as we do, can also suffer from similar mental disorders. Post Trauma Stress Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Self-harm, Anxiety, Depression have all been studied in animals...
by Sandra Kyle | Jul 6, 2019 | Animal Rights, Sentience
In her new book, ‘Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals’, Harvard professor Christine Korsgaard argues that we are not inherently more important than other animals. Our own family is more important to us than our neighbour’s family,...
