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Can You Help Save the Nineteen Billion?

Can You Help Save the Nineteen Billion?

A truly disturbing fact I never knew until now, maybe you did. There are way more hens than people in the world. Nineteen billion in fact, 3 hens to every 1 human. And the numbers just keep rising. ( I like to call these clever, social birds hens rather than chickens. Chicken is their flesh, not their personhood.) To mark yesterday’s National Poultry Day, and in the run up to Easter when chicks…

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Three Years in Heaven After 60 Years of Hell - RIP Sweet Lakhi

Three Years in Heaven After 60 Years of Hell – RIP Sweet Lakhi

If ever a story was compelling us humans to acknowledge as persons not property the other animals with which we share the planet, this one in yesterday’s email from Wildlife SOS is it Dear Pam Several days ago we lost our dear, dear elephant friend, Lakhi. We cannot express the heaviness of our hearts this week. But we want to celebrate and remember Lakhi’s life, and perhaps the best person to do…

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The Runaway Cow Wild Wintering With Bison

Image credit: Rafal Kowalczyk / Facebook Scientists said, “It chose freedom”. I say, “She chose freedom.” The story of the cow who prized freedom above the safety of home. The story is set in Poland. So, as the heroine of this tale remains nameless as yet, I shall call her Swoboda, Polish for ‘Freedom’. Ornithologist Adam Zbyryt was the first to spot her near the wild primeval forest of…

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132-Year-Old Giant Lobster Finally Freed After 20 Years in NY City Restaurant

132-Year-Old Giant Lobster Finally Freed After 20 Years in NY City Restaurant

Louie the giant lobster, who is probably 132 years old, spent 20 years in a tank in a restaurant in Long Island, New York. It seemed like Louie would meet the same fate as all the other lobsters in the restaurant. But the owner, Butch Yamali, realized that he just couldn’t put Louie in the pot. When Yamali purchased Peter’s Clam Bar in Hempstead, Long Island, four years ago, Louie the giant…

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Human Rights are Animal Rights Are!

Human Rights are Animal Rights Are!

by Peter Tatchell for the Ecologist Abusing animals is no more justifiable than abusing people, writes Peter Tatchell. The moral touchstone is sentience, not species, and the ‘humans first’ ideology of speciesism is analogous to homophobia, racism & misogyny. Cruelty is barbarism, whether inflicted on humans or on other species. We need to recognise and accept our common animal nature. Since we…

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Eight Women Changing the World for Animals 4

Eight Women Changing the World for Animals 4

4th and final post in series about eight remarkable women spearheading the battle for Animal Rights in their varied fields of science, art, law and politics, to celebrate the forthcoming International Animal Rights Day on Dec 10th Today The Lawyers “We are all focused on achieving animal liberation through the law. We do it because we don’t have a choice. It is like we are going to die trying. We…

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Eight Women Changing the World for Animals 2

Eight Women Changing the World for Animals 2

Cover pic from Declaration of Animal Rights 2nd in series about eight remarkable women spearheading the battle for Animal Rights in their varied fields of science, art, law and politics, to celebrate the forthcoming International Animal Rights Day on Dec 10th  Today The Politician “For as long as I can remember, I had a great love and admiration towards nature and animals and wanted to protect…

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8 Women Changing the World for Animals Part 1

8 Women Changing the World for Animals Part 1

This week in the run-up to International Animal Rights Day on Dec 10th, I hope to feature eight remarkable women spearheading the battle for Animal Rights in their varied fields of science, art, law and politics. Maybe it’s not so surprising then that every single one of them has ties with a 9th, world renowned photographer and animal advocate JoAnne McArthur.   First up The Scientist  “I always…

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