If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls, Everyone Would Be Vegetarian
I can’t show the video because it would be in violation of Google Adsense’s policy but there it is. So please clink on this link to see it. It’ll put you off eating ‘meat’.
80,000 people plead for dogs facing death in dental study
A dental study on six black labradors is in the process of taking place at Gothenburg University, Sweden. The dogs have to be killed in order to assess the success of the process being tested. They had a third of their teeth pulled and replaced …
Humans are eating big mammals to extinction
It is an extraordinary thought; humans are literally eating large mammals to extinction. What I mean is that we are using these mammals as sources of food and were doing it to such an extent that 60% of large mammals are in danger of disappearing. …
Cruel Agribusiness Animal Experiments Must Stop
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 …
Facebook’s rules on showing cruelty to animals
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) …
Iranian Government Prohibits Dog Walking in Capital
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 …
Canine Glitter Balls Are a Load of Bollocks
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 …
Dog walking app Wag in trouble over gagging clause after dog hit by car
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 …
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