REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONERS: ‘No Animal Left Behind – The Grim Reality of Industrial Animal Farming’
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONERS: ‘No Animal Left Behind – The Grim Reality of Industrial Animal Farming’
EUROGROUP FOR ANIMALS: The European Union recognises farmed animals as sentient beings. This means it recognises they are individuals with intrinsic value, needs and rights. It also means the least we can do is offer them a decent life. However, most farmed animals across the EU live in detrimental and depressing conditions, where painful and […]
‘Domestication Syndrome’: Why do animals living with humans evolve similar features?
‘Domestication Syndrome’: Why do animals living with humans evolve similar features?
BEN THOMAS GLEESON: Charles Darwin was one of the first to notice something interesting about domesticated animals: different species often developed similar changes when compared to their ancient wild ancestors. But why would a host of seemingly unrelated features repeatedly occur together in different domesticated animals? Scientists call this collection of shared changes “domestication syndrome,” […]
‘A Living Hell’: Scientists call for the world’s first octopus farm to be shut down
‘A Living Hell’: Scientists call for the world’s first octopus farm to be shut down
COLIN FERNANDEZ: Plans for the world’s first commercial octopus farm should be scrapped on grounds of cruelty, according to campaigners. Details of the inland farm planned for Las Palmas on Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands are to produce 3,000 tonnes of octopus each year – around one million octopuses… Other countries around the world […]
