“Emotions are the gifts of our ancestors. We have them and so do they. No longer do we have to put words like happy or sad in quotation marks when we speak of animal emotions and animals’ inner lives. Animals will always have their mysteries but their emotional lives are public and transparent.” Do animals… Continue reading Do Animals Have Emotions? Of Course They Do
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Consumers Want Leather Moved out of Cars
A 1997 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals survey indicated that 87 per cent of people in the UK were opposed to wearing fur, and this year, research conducted by the Consumer Analysis Group with Safeway claims that all Britons could be vegetarian by 2047, as 2,000 people a week stop eating… Continue reading Consumers Want Leather Moved out of Cars
Animal Experiments More Stressful than Previously Recognized
Mice, rabbits, rats, beagles, geese, and other animals all show measurable physiological stress responses to routine laboratory procedures that have been up until now viewed as relatively benign. The findings come in a new report published in Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science, based on an extensive review of the scientific literature by ethologist Jonathan… Continue reading Animal Experiments More Stressful than Previously Recognized
The Fur Industry Exposed
Editor’s note: I conducted this interview in a devil’s advocate style in an attempt to refute every possible justification for wearing fur. It worked. The Fur Bearer-Defenders is one of the first organizations I became involved in to protect animal rights. Fur, which again has become trendy, is a luxury gained at the expense of… Continue reading The Fur Industry Exposed
Factory Farming
Every year, over eight billion cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, sheep, and goats are raised, transported and slaughtered under grossly cruel and inhumane conditions. The vast majority of these animals are reared in intense confinement operations, commonly referred to as “factory farms.” Cramped into cages and crates, or pressed together in overcrowded pens, these animals endure… Continue reading Factory Farming
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