I would like to remember Lolita, the orca held in captivity for 50 years. She was due to be released into the ocean but instead she suddenly passed away. She never saw the ocean again. Her birthright, her habitat, her place to live from where she was stolen to be held captive in a large …
Piers Morgan objects to the use of the word ‘holocaust’ when describing the brutal killing of 3 trillion individual animals every year for human consumption because he says it will offend people. The impressive young woman in the video below makes a good argument for the suitability of the word and insists that it can …
Non-human animals are subjected to a 3 trillion holocaust every year Read More »
It is mysteriously called ‘ambergris’. It is very rare hence its value. It is also called ‘ambergrease’ or ‘grey amber’. It is solid, waxy and flammable and it resides in 1-5% of the digestive tracts of sperm whales. It is formed by the secretion of bile from the whale’s intestines. It is believed that the …
At $24,000 per pound this sperm whale grease is 16 times more valuable than gold Read More »
For me, there are two major points to make about this video. The first is that donkeys are tremendously undervalued by people. It’s almost as if people want to devalue them so that they can drive them to the very limits of their abilities and beyond sometimes. They are used, abused and exploited as a …
Donkeys scavenge for food on plastic waste mountains in India, Mali and Morocco Read More »
NEWS AND STRONG VIEWS – RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE: The Russians are at it again; demonstrating their crude and backward attitudes. It is a pretty backward and unsophisticated nation, isn’t it? The Kremlin being unsatisfied in bombing Ukrainian civilians to death in their many thousands, torturing, raping, pillaging and looting they are now trying to …
This is a Spanish tradition. As I have said many times before ‘cultural traditions’ in any country should be dumped or banned if they constitute animal cruelty by any decent measure and/or if they are dangerous for the participants. Often cultural traditions go back hundreds of years and sometimes further to a time when animal …
Barbaric tradition of setting a bull’s horns alight leaves one man seriously injured Read More »
Well, depressing as it is, bears are still performing in some circuses. Many circuses have dispensed with animal performers because it has been banned and of course it is cruel as the training of these young bears shows. I sense that most of these objectionable circuses are in Asia, specifically China, where by-and-large they have …
This is how baby bears are trained for the circus Read More »
The Sunday Times has done some brilliant work in getting to the bottom of the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic which killed 7 million people worldwide. It either started in nature, specifically in the wet market at Wuhan where wild animals were cut up, or in the Wuhan laboratory (Wuhan Institute of Virology) where they …
Stronger evidence that COVID-19 started at the Wuhan Institute of Virology Read More »
The picture (words added by me) from Twitter sums up what I mean about sport hunters being AHs (arseholes). Yep, I am being rude. Being rude is mild compared to the death and destruction that sport hunters hand out to wildlife often on the African continent where corrupt officials sell expensive licenses to shoot their …
Animals as prizes put in tiny cages so they can’t move (animals become ‘objects’). The Twitter tweet states: “May 1st, Kaifeng, Henan China Animals put in small cages as prizes. The little dog couldn’t stretch his limbs inside, and was trembling every time someone threw a circle.” Sorry but this disgusts me. A demonstration of …
Puppy as a prize put in a tiny cage so he can’t move (animals become ‘objects’) Read More »
The sound track to this Twitter video is inappropriate which gives it a sick quality. Perhaps that is why it was added. To juxtapose the horror visuals and the music. Personally, I’d ban horse racing full-stop. Of course, it won’t happen as there are too many people who enjoy throwing money at the ‘sport’. They …
Time for horse racing to be banned like any other abusive animal exploitation Read More »
The Times reports on the struggle to sell the house where Ivana Trump lived in New York city. It has been on sale for five months and it has failed to find a buyer. A visitor said that walking into the house is like stepping back into the 1980s. It is a grand palace inside …
Leopard-print $26m home of Ivana Trump won’t sell. Thoughts on why. Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT: Did you realise that the well-known dish that the French love, frogs’ legs in garlic, are the product of mass animal cruelty? That’s what animal activists have said at the world’s biggest celebration of frogs legs in Vittel, eastern France. It is their annual frog fair. 99% of the frogs legs eaten …
Frogs are dismembered while alive and discarded to take their legs for consumption Read More »
I have generalised in the title but I want to make the point that the adult humans of this planet through their carelessness and lack of foresight have led children down the path of global warming which is making them depressed. It is the children of today who have to face the future of tomorrow. …
NEWS AND COMMENT/OPINION: In my view, this is a terrible example of how humankind has totally screwed up its relationship with animals. In this instance two parties, Sri Lanka and China, are the miscreants. They are the bad boys. Sri Lanka has got into a terrible debt with China. But then China likes to loan …
