To “improve carcass merit” means to boost livestock industry profits. It’s a euphemism for animal abuse, in truth. I’m referring to the taxpayer-funded USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in Nebraska, the world’s largest livestock research center. A whistleblower, Jim Keen, writing on the truthabout.org …
In my personal experience and having researched the matter, I can say with a certain amount of conviction that Facebook’s policies in publishing images of animal abuse are inadequate. Their rules on showing cruelty to animals need tightening up It seems to me that (a) …
NEWS AND COMMENT: The Iranian government is living in the 7th century CE in banning dog walking in Tehran, the capital. Today, it is almost impossible to be a dog owner in Iran because the animal is regarded as unclean and not to be touched …
You’ve heard about it: decorating the testes of dogs with glitter. The glitter is edible and is stuck on with corn syrup. It is actually deviant behaviour. It is quite mad and the people who do it are bonkers. I just don’t know where they …
The dog walking smart phone app called Wag works a bit like Uber cars. You can commission a qualified dog walker from your smart phone. On this occasion it went badly wrong. Nick and Sara Moore, from Huston in Texas, commissioned a Wag dog walker …
This is questionable behaviour in my opinion. Chinese scientists say they have cloned five baby monkeys from a genetically edited macaque monkey with a brain disorder. The intention is to create cloned versions of this monkey so that they can do animal testing on them. …
I am reading an article from the Mail Online Dated 28 April 2013. It is just before the time that Romania joined the European Union. Members of the European Union need to be in alignment on a whole range of issues including animal welfare. This …
The image has been edited (cat pixelated) to make it more acceptable. This is a good story to kick off on this website. It is very much about the animal-human relationship and it comes from Australia which is a cauldron of argument about how to …