Sheep ships carrying up to 111,000 sheep for 3-4 weeks are gross breaches of animal welfare

Penned sheep on a huge sheep ship journeying from Perth Australia to the Middle East

NEWS AND OPINION – PERTH, AUSTRALIA: This is another horror story about how humankind treats animals. Some people don’t care but I, for one, do. Massive livestock transport ships which I believe are owned by two companies: the Kuwaiti-owned Livestock Shipping Services and Rural Export …

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Connecticut family traumatised by sport hunter’s alleged shooting, beheading, skinning of their two dogs

Cimo and Lieben

NEWS AND OPINION: This is a story which is almost from a parallel universe. The story of a sport hunter living in Putnam County who has been named as Mike Konschak. At the moment these are allegations. It is alleged that Mike Konschak shot the …

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Jockeys whipping racehorses. Why? Change in rules (UK).

Racehorse whip

This article briefly touches on the change in rules regarding jockeys whipping their horse to speed them up. I also touch on whipping racehorses generally and its effectiveness. Change in rules The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) recently announced a change in the use of the …

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Employees of a fox hunt run by King Charles’s friend allegedly filled in badger setts (a crime)

Lord Daresbury

NEWS AND COMMENT: According to The Times, a very reliable source, Lord Daresbury is a longstanding friend of the present monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth realms, King Charles III. King Charles and Lord Daresbury go back a long way. When foxhunting was …

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Pangolins are being poached to extinction to supply INEFFECTIVE traditional Chinese medicine

Pangolins are mercilessly persecuted and brutally killed for the scales to service the Chinese traditional medicine market

Here are some facts about the gradual extinction of the pangolin. It is a gruesome, unhappy story of human excess and superstition. For me, it is an example of complete madness in the human character but perhaps I am alone in that thought. Pangolin scales …

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