LICENSE TO KILL: The fate of Marineland’s beluga whales expose the ethical cracks in Canadian animal law
LICENSE TO KILL: The fate of Marineland’s beluga whales expose the ethical cracks in Canadian animal law
Marineland has a deteriorating facility and expensive care on its hands for animals it can no longer use to turn a profit. The threat to kill the belugas as a solution to its economic woes, while shocking, reflects the ethical emptiness of the Canadian legal system when it comes to animals. Simply put, Canadian law still allows human and corporate owners to kill their animals because animals are legally treated as “property.” The belugas and other animals at Marineland deserve to live. A legal system that allows them to be killed because it is economically convenient is one that needs […]
WHY-DUNIT: She took sick chickens from a slaughterhouse; was it a rescue or a crime?
WHY-DUNIT: She took sick chickens from a slaughterhouse; was it a rescue or a crime?
Over the years, animal rights groups have gained a reputation for using confrontational tactics – such as PETAs campaign comparing meat consumption to the Holocaust. The logic is simple: it takes shock to jolt people out of complacency about animal suffering. DxE follows in this tradition; the group’s signature move has been “open rescues”, granting people criminal and civil protection if they forcibly enter a facility to remove an endangered animal. From the activists’ perspective, one virtue of the tactic is that it does not just call attention to an injustice – it attempts, in a small way, to correct […]
Not Taking ‘Bull By The Horns’: Pope Leo spurns pleas to condemn bloody pastime of bullfighting
Not Taking ‘Bull By The Horns’: Pope Leo spurns pleas to condemn bloody pastime of bullfighting
Animal rights groups are reminding Pope Leo of the historic decree ‘De Salute Gregis Dominici’, promulgated by his predecessor Pope Pius V on Nov. 1, 1567, which automatically excommunicated anyone who supported or attended a bullfight. The edict, which denounced bullfights as constituting “cruel and base spectacles of the devil and not of man,” also denied burial to those who died fighting bulls. The Spanish Episcopal Conference, known for its penchant for meddling in political affairs and outspoken on other issues of social justice, has also opted to keep silent on the issue of bullfighting. Ignoring pleas from animal rights […]
