If there is a god, one day animals will be described as ‘non-human persons’. They will have a whole set of rights which should be very similar to the rights bestowed upon humans. They might not be equal to those rights. They will be lesser …
Summary: In the UK, up to 99 million animals are unnecessarily slaughtered without being stunned beforehand because the meat from these animals is not being consumed by Muslims or Jews. There is an oversupply of halal and kosher meat in the UK and the oversupplied …
There appears to be a shocking failure in the conservation of the koala in Australia which has been highlighted by a catastrophe in Cape Bridgewater, Victoria. Am I missing something? Am I getting a clear and correct message from the Internet? The Australians profess to …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Michael Heseltine believes in speciesism. He has decided that songbirds are more important than squirrels. So, when squirrels trashed 14 nesting boxes at his 70-acre arboretum he called in experts to shoot all the grey squirrels. In the UK, it is perfectly …
You may remember Geronimo, the alpaca, who was slaughtered after a long-running battle between Helen Macdonald, his owner, and Defra which claimed that he had tuberculosis. Geronimo’s owner claimed that he did not because the Defra test was inaccurate. She made that perfectly clear and …
The world is aghast. There is shock and disbelief. How could anybody prioritise animals over people? And yet, all over the news today and yesterday are denials by Boris Johnson that he intervened in the rescue of dogs and cats from Kabul during the chaotic …
CALIFORNIA, US – NEWS AND VIEWS: I am going to have to be brutally honest about this. Some people love the way Maritza Rubalcava has applied fake nails to her dog’s claws and made TikTok videos out of it. She even decided to start a …
You decide. I have decided. The bloke pushed over the dry cat food container deliberately to make the video. It was all planned obviously. He probably knew his cat would complain with that strange feline sound that we have heared before. It is the cat’s …
Animal rights were and are inherently benefited by Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for human rights. The two go hand-in-hand. It’s not surprising because the human is the human-animal. We have to accept that no matter how arrogant we might be and self-obsessed with our …
