‘What Pom Pom Taught Me….’
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...
Mental Illness in Animals
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...
‘It Just Seems Like An Obvious Moral Issue’
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,...
A message from Thich Nhat Hanh
The article below was written by Buddhist monk, teacher and author, THICH NHAT HANH, and we have reprinted it with original illustrations of New Zealand native plants and animals by Alex L Scott. “This is the kind of awareness, the kind of awakening that we...