The video below is extremely hard for an animal advocate to view as it such a horrendously powerful reminder of how humans are destroying the human world – themselves and infrastructure – over some complicated historical dispute – almost a vendetta between Jews and Arabs …
The Queen guitarist Sir Brian May has resigned as vice-president of the RSPCA in protest at what he called the “appalling” animal welfare standards on farms certified under the organisation’s scheme. Almost 4,000 food suppliers pay to use the RSPCA Assured label. Sir Brian said …
Chris Packham is the president of the RSPCA. He has criticised the RSPCA publicly and called on the charity to suspend its “Assured” farms scheme. This is a scheme which is meant to assure customers that the produce produced by these farms is of high …
China currently lacks nationwide animal welfare laws. However, there are some specific contexts where legislation exists to protect animals, such as in research and zoos. Notably, the Wild Animal Protection Law, adopted in 1988, provides protective measures for certain precious or endangered species like pandas, …
NEWS AND COMMENT: You may remember the story of 10 giant tortoises found in woodland dead. People scratched their heads as to what had happened. We now know. The tortoises were being looked after by an electrician who’d apparently had a fascination with tortoises for …
RELATED: In China pets detract from a leader’s image. The opposite is true in America. This is an extraordinary development by normal standards but, without wishing to be overly critical, it seems to be entirely in line with animal welfare attitudes in China; a country …
What good deeds has Leonardo DiCaprio done to contribute to animal welfare on the planet? A lot is the answer and it seems to me that he committed himself to during his good deeds early on when he established the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998. …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, has claimed that UK farmers are irresponsibly and recklessly overusing antibiotics where this extravagant use of a precious drug remains legal because UK ministers have failed to stand up to vested interests by which he means farmers’ …
This is a beautiful little story about the animal-to-human relationship. It is a very positive one which warms my heart. My heart needs warming at the moment because there are far too many disastrous stories circulating among news media outlets on the Internet and in …
