CITIZEN ANIMAL: Animals deserve political rights and representation
CITIZEN ANIMAL: Animals deserve political rights and representation
BRANDON KEIM: At a gathering of scholars and activists called Minding Animals, there was an intellectual exuberance to the “animal turn,” as this blossoming interest in animals is known, and a new term kept coming up at the conference: a “political turn,” away from simply examining the ethics of our relations with animals and toward political organizing and including animals in institutional decision-making. Toward the idea, to put an American spin on things, that We the People ought to include animals as well. That it doesn’t can seem self-evident. How could politics not be a strictly human endeavor? Dogs might […]
Animal rights group urges ban on Olympics horse events after cruelty video release
Animal rights group urges ban on Olympics horse events after cruelty video release
MIKE HEUER: A video of an English horsewoman beating a horse while training it four years ago has spurred PETA senior vice president Kathy Guillermo to demand the Olympics end equestrian competitions. “The message to the International Olympic Committee should be clear by now: Remove equestrian events from the Olympic Games,” Guillermo said in an online statement Tuesday. “Yet again, an Olympic rider has been caught on video abusing a horse to force the animal to behave in an entirely unnatural way, simply for her own glory,” Guillermo said. “Horses don’t volunteer — they can only submit to violence and […]
‘Yo Galgo’: Documentary about an invisible genocide taking place while the authorities look the other way
‘Yo Galgo’: Documentary about an invisible genocide taking place while the authorities look the other way
MOONLEAKS: Yo Galgo is an award winning documentary film about an invisible genocide taking place while the authorities look the other way. It’s an exposé of the sharp divide between animal rights and the traditions of a nation… Once raised only by Spanish noble families, the Galgo has had a remarkable fall from grace, yet their story is relatively unknown worldwide. Even in Spain, their plight is often unheard of or, worse, ignored. The unregulated and mass-scale breeding, the cruelty associated with breed selection, and the opaque use of public land for hunting made it hard for an outsider to […]
