NOT ‘KOSHER’: Animal rights activist arrested after new animal cruelty investigation
NOT ‘KOSHER’: Animal rights activist arrested after new animal cruelty investigation
Animal rights activist Joey Carbstrong says he has been arrested following the release of an investigation into a slaughterhouse in England that carries out non-stun kosher slaughter, known as Shechita. Carbstrong said in a statement that police arrived at around 3:30 a.m. They seized his devices and the computers used to produce his animal investigations. They then handcuffed him and took him to a police station. ANIMAL READER: Animal rights activist Joey Carbstrong says he has been arrested following the release of an investigation into a slaughterhouse in England. He shared a video of his arrest on Sunday. The arrest […]
‘The Dying Trade’: New film documents a vegan activist’s relationship with his father, a slaughterhouse worker
‘The Dying Trade’: New film documents a vegan activist’s relationship with his father, a slaughterhouse worker
Jack is a vegan activist. His father is a slaughterhouse worker. After years of avoiding the subject, Jack sets out to confront the unspoken tension between them. This intimate and contemplative documentary follows a son’s attempt to understand his father – and the industry that stands between them. PLANT BASED NEWS: ‘The Dying Trade’, a new documentary film from Jack Hancock-Fairs, unpacks the “hidden human cost” of the meat processing industry on its workers… ‘The Dying Trade’ focuses on Hancock-Fairs himself, a filmmaker and vegan activist, and his father, a career slaughterhouse worker, as they discuss the negative impact of […]
Animal advocacy has existed for millennia, going back to ancient Greek philosophers such as Plutarch, who compared the slaughter of animals to the slaughter of human beings. But for those same millennia, no one has really listened to us. ‘Yes, animal cruelty is not great,’ the authorities say. ‘But it’s not that big of a deal.’ But it is that big of a deal. The average experience of a land animal on Earth is that of a tortured creature trapped in a cage. What is happening to other animals, is an emergency. A crime. An atrocity. And we now have […]
