Every time I read about cat ownership in Australia I feel that a gradual squeeze is being placed on cat owners in terms of confinement, registration and other restrictions which make cat ownership problematic or less enjoyable. For example, it’s been announced online that Canberra …
Greta Thunberg, 16, has Asperger’s. She is moving mountains. She is making politicians in the UK sit up and listen about climate change. She is in the UK at the moment. Greta is the talented and brave teenager who triggered the school strike for climate …
A revision of the EU’s common agricultural policy would lead to vegan sausages being called ‘tubes’ and vegan burgers described as ‘discs’. The proposed ban on using the words ‘burger’ and ‘sausage’ for vegan products was passed by the European Parliament’s agricultural committee this month …
My friends think the Extinction Rebellion (ER) protestors in London should be hauled off the streets and deposited in jail at the earliest opportunity. They dislike them strongly and hate the fact that they are disrupting their lives. I don’t see it that way at …
Animal advocates in Russia are disgusted at the sale of seal sausages manufactured by a company based in the Magadan region on the Sea of Okhotsk. This is 3,600 miles from Moscow. We are told in The Times that about 140 seals have been clubbed …
Russell Brand has a German Shepherd dog called Bear. Bear killed a sheep which led to Mr Brand using a shock collar. Brand was taught how to use the shock collar by a former police dog handler whose name is Jamie Penrith. Mr Penrith is …
Farming, fences and settlements from an expanding population on the African continent is threatening the wonderful 1.3 million wildebeest migration and other animals with which we are so familiar in the West. This spectacular event, which has been photographed by many excellent photographers, may be …
The callousness of it is truly shocking. Security cameras shows what appears to be a young women stepping out of her car with what looks like a plastic bag and throws it onto other plastic bags containing rubbish. This is an area where the public …
There’s been a two-pronged attack on climate change recently. Firstly there is a 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl, Greta Thunberg, whose climate change activism began when she was a solitary figure pursuing a vigil outside Sweden’s parliament in Stockholm. Then last month about 1.4 million students joined …
