CARNIVORE CARNAGE: The meat industry’s war on wildlife
CARNIVORE CARNAGE: The meat industry’s war on wildlife
KENNY TORRELLA: A red fox killed with a cyanide bomb. A gray wolf gunned down from an airplane. A jackrabbit caught in a neck snare. These are just a few of the 1.45 million animals poisoned, shot, and trapped last year by the euphemistically named Wildlife Services, a little-known but particularly brutal program of the US Department of Agriculture. The program kills wildlife for many reasons, including poisoning birds to prevent them from striking airplanes and destroying beavers that sneak onto golf courses. But one of the primary purposes of the mostly taxpayer-funded $286 million program is to serve as […]
WAR ON ‘TERROR’: Why did the successful Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign fall apart?
WAR ON ‘TERROR’: Why did the successful Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign fall apart?
NOVARA MEDIA: For many people, the name ‘Huntingdon Life Sciences’ will live forever in infamy… In the ’00s, animal rights protestors nearly won their battle to ban vivisection in the UK, shutting down multiple breeding farms that were supplying laboratories with cats, dogs and guinea pigs. But at the last moment, the government made a dramatic U-turn, blocking the attempt to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences and throwing activists in jail. How did this winning campaign fall apart? Why was the ‘war on terror’ a crucial turning point?… ‘Your Neighbour Kills Puppies‘ tells the complete inside story of this remarkable […]
‘Dog On Trial’: Film about animal-human relationships are put to the test at Cannes Festival
‘Dog On Trial’: Film about animal-human relationships are put to the test at Cannes Festival
SHANNON L. BOWEN: A dog is not the same as a table, right? Wrong, at least in the eyes of the law. Traditionally, judicial systems around the world have recognized two kinds of entities – persons and things – and regarded animals as things. Man’s best friend is no exception. That’s true nearly everywhere, including in Switzerland, which serves as the setting for Dog on Trial (Le Procès du Chien), the directorial debut from Swiss-French actress and writer Laetitia Dosch… Premiering in Un Certain Regard, Dog is a bittersweet comedy about a spirited young female attorney, Avril, and her client, […]
