inhumane

Shackled primate in Asia

If animals had a religion, humans would be the DEVIL!!!

That is absolutely disgusting. I weep for that poor animal. – comment on Twitter. OMG – what sh*t. What horrors people get up to. I don’t want to sound racist. I want to be respectful of different cultures and races but this is obviously Asia somewhere and there is so much animal abuse in Asia. …

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Kangaroo leather football boots will no longer be made by Nike by the end of 2023

Nike will stop using kangaroo leather in its products by the end of 2023

NEWS AND OPINION: Nike has announced that it will stop using kangaroo leather (K-leather) in all of its products which of course includes football boots, by the end of 2023 and will be using synthetic materials instead for the uppers. Nike is following in the footsteps of Puma, the German rival and Diadora an Italian …

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Octopus farm

Animal advocates in despair over cruel plan to farm octopuses in Gran Canaria

NEWS AND OPINION: This is about the ethics of marine wildlife farming, specifically the ethics of farming an intelligent, sentient creature which is what the octopus is. And the experts say that it is impossible to farm the octopus humanely because of their intelligence and because they are creative and solitary creatures. The last characteristic …

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

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

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 and Trading WA (Retwa), based in Perth, ship vast quantities …

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