Cop an antler, kill a grizzly: Human wants trump animal needs

Kathleen Stachowski   Other Nations Where to start? Perhaps with this question: In how many different ways can we take from animals? We take their lives and call it food, call it sport, call it fun…or tradition or clothing or pest control or management; they are a renewable resource, after all. If we allow them to live–at least [...]

Holland Debates Banning Ritual Slaughter

Laurens Peters Approximately 2 million animals are slaughtered in the Netherlands without stunning each year. This number is composed mainly of poultry, but also of large numbers of sheep and cattle. Although Dutch and European laws generally prohibit slaughter without stunning, exception is granted to ritual slaughter, practiced by parts of the Jewish and Muslim [...]

Meat Without Slaughter

                                                                               photo by Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times ANDREW C. REVKIN  (x-post from Dot Earth) Can [...]

“OUR PLANET. THEIRS TOO.”

David Cassuto From the email: The New York Animal Rights Coalition presents: “OUR PLANET. THEIRS TOO.” A REQUIEM CEREMONY FOR EARTH’S NON-HUMAN ANIMALS , AND A CELEBRATION OF WHAT IS POSSIBLE FOR ALL ITS SPECIES Sunday June 5th 2011, 11 am-4 pm, Union Square North, NYC The public is invited to a mass requiem ceremony, [...]

The War on Pit Bulls

Lili Corn Dog fighters concerned about whether they’re abusing their pit bulls enough to achieve maximum viciousness in the fight ring can breathe a sigh of relief.  The popular dog fighting game application for Android, “Dog Wars,” from Kage Games, is back with a new name.  Pulled from the market for a few days last [...]

Graphic Content

Will Sheehan Public perception has always played a significant role in the battle for animal rights. Newspapers, publishing houses and television have traditionally served as facilitators–and occasionally unwitting allies–of the movement. Due to the persuasiveness of visual aids, it is clear that the future battleground for the public relations struggle will take place on Youtube [...]

Coyote and fox penning: Tell Indiana NO (and do it soon!)

Kathleen Stachowski Other Nations As far as a sense of humor goes, I have a pretty good one, or so I’m told. I keep thinking I’ll find a way to inject some hard-to-come-by laughs into my animal rights writing–perhaps a take-off on “Chicken Soup for the Vegan Soul” or something silly like that. Wouldn’t it be [...]

Wild bison calf born on Monday, dead by Thursday: The short, tragic life of an American icon

WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA: A wild American buffalo calf born Monday was found dead Thursday – a result of being repeatedly forced from winter range in Hebgen basin by agents with the Montana Department of Livestock and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Yellowstone National Park rangers and Gallatin County Sheriff’s office were part of the repeated [...]

Happy Mother’s Day, Montana style: Mom and newborn wild bison hazed mercilessly

Kathleen Stachowski     Other Nations The tiny calf pictured was only four hours old and caught up in a hazing operation when the Montana livestock industry flexed its muscle. Mom hadn’t even shed the afterbirth before the harassment began. Regarding the photo, Buffalo Field Campaign reports: Mom checks on her injured and confused baby, [...]

“Rat” vs. “her”: We’d RATHER have an honest discussion

Imagine that, marketing presenting us with a false dichotomy. And as any former English teacher (ahem) will tell you, it’s “whom.” “That billboard has appeared in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago and Baltimore, and will soon debut in Madison, Wis. — all cities with major medical or primate research centers. They were put up by [...]