‘An Angry Cow Is Not A Good Eating Experience’: How global media are shifting from ‘crude’ to ‘camouflaged’ speciesism
‘An Angry Cow Is Not A Good Eating Experience’: How global media are shifting from ‘crude’ to ‘camouflaged’ speciesism
NATALIE KHAZAAL: When it comes to the treatment of nonhuman animals used for food (NUF), do global media like The New York Times coddle their readership with human-centered narratives or do they provide a neutral point to view? Do global media uphold ideologies that render oppression invisible or challenge them, making oppression apparent? The question whether NUF are oppressed is empirical, not discursive. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in 2011 around 70 billion land animals were slaughtered worldwide for human food (excluding the 150 billion aquatic animals captured in oceans or grown in aquaculture […]
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 […]
