animalrights
Each April, more than 150,000 people attend an event that celebrates horse deaths. Of course, the promoters don’t frame the Grand National Festival this way, but let’s call it what it is: just another event where horses are exploited for profit. Inevitably, this year was no different. Two horses suffered fatal — and completely avoidable — injuries. Yet again, blood is on the hands of everyone involved in the event’s organisation or who attended the three-day meeting at Aintree, and yet again, we’re reminded that horse racing needs to end. The Grand National meeting is one of the deadliest in t...
Euronews (English)
Despite a clear commitment from the European Commission in 2021 to deliver proposals to ban caged animal farming by the end of 2023, it has failed to deliver on its promise. As a result, last week, the End the Cage Age Citizens’ Committee — a group of seven EU citizens who started the ECI — launched a ground-breaking legal action against the European Commission for failing to act. Funded by Compassion in World Farming, this historic case could result in the Commission being compelled by the court to set out a clear timescale for the legislation. It is the first legal action to hold the Commiss...
Euronews (English)
Animal rights groups have slammed an international fur trade show in Hong Kong as putting animal cruelty “on full display.” The city’s role as a re-export hub for fur was “against the global trend,” an activist said. Around ten activists staged a protest in Wan Chai on Thursday, which marked the opening of the 2024 Hong Kong International Fur & Fashion Fair at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Demonstrators from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Fur Free Hong Kong and Animal Rights Education by NPV (ARE by NPV) posed as captive animals inside metal wire ...
Hong Kong Free Press
By Sana Fazili Elon Musk's company Neuralink has reportedly run into legal trouble and is under a federal probe over its animal trial program. Musk's Neuralink has been working to create a brain chip that would help people with paralysis to walk again. Reuters on December 6 reported that Musk's Neuralink was being probed for "potential animal-welfare violations". The report added that there were complaints from the Neuralink staff that hastened testing was causing "needless suffering and deaths". Last week, Musk had said that Neuralink could begin to test the motor cortex technology in humans ...
BOOM Live
An animal rights activist chained herself to the basket stanchion Saturday during Game 1 of the Timberwolves-Grizzlies playoff series in Memphis, Tenn. The woman, wearing a T-shirt that read: “Glen Taylor Roasts Animals Alive” — appeared during a stoppage of play in the second quarter with yellow chains and attempted to secure herself to the stanchion after throwing flyers on the floor. Security unchained the woman and five people carried her out of the main arena to the cheers of fans inside FedExForum. According to a press release, Direct Action Everywhere, a grassroots animal rights network...
uInterview.com
A California lawmaker proposed legislation earlier this month that would create a bill of rights for dogs and cats. The bill would give the animals basic rights and protections. Assembly Bill 1881, introduced by assembly member Miguel Santiago (D-California) is aimed at preventing animal cruelty. The bill includes seven specific provisions, including the right to be free from neglect and abuse, the right to live life free of anxiety, the right to have exercise, the right to food, water and shelter, the right to be properly identified and the right to be spayed and neutered. “Well, animal cruel...
uPolitics.com
On Monday, South Korea‘s President Moon Jae-in said that it’s time for the country to officially prohibit eating dog meat, a traditional practice that has become an international embarrassment. “Hasn’t the time come to prudently consider prohibiting dog meat consumption?” Moon told Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum during their weekly meeting as they were being briefed on a plan for abandoned pets, according to the spokesperson. President Moon is a known animal lover who has been raising several pets in the Blue House – the executive office of South Korea – throughout his tenure. The Asian country i...
uPolitics.com
Boiling live lobsters and other crustaceans and mollusks would be banned in the United Kingdom under the new bill in the House of Lords. The British Parliament is renewing its Animal Welfare Bill, which only defends vertebrates against inhumane treatment, to include invertebrates like lobsters, crabs and octopuses. The bill would require fishermen and chefs to either stun the sea creatures with an electric device or freeze them before boiling them, which is what the advocates claim a more humane way of cooking. “There is more than enough evidence for the ability of these sensitive, captivating...
uPolitics.com
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) has introduced a bill which would provide much-needed regulations for breeders and owners of puppy mills. The legislation, known delightfully as the “Puppy Protection Bill,” calls for amendments to the animal welfare act and would implement tougher requirements to license dog breeders. Today, breeders only have to follow minimal standards for their license to be approved. This has often led to harsh and almost unlivable conditions for the puppies they are breeding. The USDA’s new regulations would require more livable conditions to be added to the existing rule...
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