The Forgotten 10 Billion Lives: The fight to see the suffering and survival of farmed animals
The Forgotten 10 Billion Lives: The fight to see the suffering and survival of farmed animals
ISISABELLA LA ROCCA GONZALEZ: In 2012, in Turlock, California, 50,000 hens were abandoned in an egg farm. Every one of those trapped birds embodied a tragic irony. Birds can fly in the sky, unassisted by metal structures or fossil fuels. They are emblematic of freedom. “Free as a bird,” goes the cliché. For her whole life, each of those hens had been crammed in a rusted cage with three, four, five, even six others; her whole life eclipsed by an obsessive desire to bust out of the cage, to spread her wings and feel the sun and the rain and […]
‘Hunt Havoc’: New website exposes the shocking reality behind trail hunting in Britain
‘Hunt Havoc’: New website exposes the shocking reality behind trail hunting in Britain
DORSET EYE: A powerful new website ‘Hunt Havoc’ (www.hunthavoc.info) has launched to pull back the curtain on one of Britain’s most controversial rural practices: trail hunting. Created by campaign group Protect the Wild, the site brings together first-hand accounts, shocking video evidence, and over 1,350 logged incidents of hunt havoc across Britain. Updated quarterly, it is already proving to be a vital resource for the public, journalists, and lawmakers… The Hunt Havoc website offers a searchable, public database of hunt-related incidents… Hunt Havoc has been built with support from local communities, saboteurs and monitors who have witnessed this damage firsthand. […]
Althea Davis: ‘If I am killed simply for living, let death be kinder than man.’
Althea Davis: ‘If I am killed simply for living, let death be kinder than man.’
KINDER THAN MAN: (ALTHEA DAVIS) ‘And God please let the deer on the highway get some kind of heaven. Something with tall soft grass and sweet reunion. Let the moths in porch lights go someplace with a thousand suns, that taste like sugar and get swallowed whole. May the mice in oil and glue have forever dry, warm fur and full bellies. If I am killed for simply living, let death be kinder than man.’ VIDEO:
