FEELINGS: It’s time to celebrate animal sentience and stop squabbling
FEELINGS: It’s time to celebrate animal sentience and stop squabbling
Being sentient means having the ability to feel. A large body of scientific evidence stemming from studies of diverse species clearly shows that many nonhuman animals are sentient beings. The latest research shows that the emotional lives of insects are richer than many of us have ever imagined. Furthermore, there are no degrees of sentience among different species; an individual’s joy and pain are their joy and pain. We must stop pretending that we don’t know this or that about animal sentience. It’s anti-science to claim that nonhumans aren’t sentient. We need more action. While we persist in pondering the obvious, […]
JOIN US: ‘If the government won’t rescue the Ridglan Dogs, we will’, says Wayne Hsiung
JOIN US: ‘If the government won’t rescue the Ridglan Dogs, we will’, says Wayne Hsiung
In 2017, six people made a choice. They walked into Ridglan Farms, even as alarms went off and security trucks came roaring up the driveway, and took Julie out of her cage. Right now, there is a dog trapped in a cage and days from a horrific death. The question that remains is what the people will do. The only way for us to save the dogs is for citizens to head to Wisconsin and just start rescuing them ourselves. If enough ordinary people step-up to join the rescue effort, we can get every dog out of Ridglan into a […]
‘Banned in Britain’: U.K. Parliament bans peaceful protest at animal-testing centers
‘Banned in Britain’: U.K. Parliament bans peaceful protest at animal-testing centers
In a change to the law, the U.K. Parliament has amended the ‘Public Order Act’ to categorize animal-testing facilities, including universities and laboratories, as ‘key infrastructure’, alongside airports, power stations and motorways. Police will have stronger powers to stop protests. Anyone breaching the new ban may now face prison or an unlimited fine. This means ‘Camp Beagle’ demonstrators holding up placards outside a center near Huntingdon that breeds dogs for laboratory testing could be prosecuted. THE INDEPENDENT: Campaigners are accusing the British government of a draconian crackdown by taking away the fundamental right to protest peacefully after it made non-violent […]
