US AND THEM: Why be surprised when we treat humans like animals?
US AND THEM: Why be surprised when we treat humans like animals?
Many animal rights groups have long pressed companies and agencies to adopt alternatives to animal testing. The agencies say they’re phasing out primate experiments, reducing animal experiments, maybe both. Still, today, monkeys are fastened into restraint chairs. It should be noted that the movement to stop this practice has been active since the nineteenth century, which demonstrates the limits of crafting law and policy. Unless human beings experience a deep-down moral shift — one that understands all living, feeling beings as worthy of respect — this dastardly practice will go on until the last monkey is caught and there are […]
NEVERMORE: No more live animals will be shot in U.S. military ‘trauma training’ drills
NEVERMORE: No more live animals will be shot in U.S. military ‘trauma training’ drills
The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, the annual bill that sets military policy, includes a ban on the use of live animals in live-fire trauma training drills across all military branches. For years, the U.S. military conducted so-called “wound labs,” during which conscious or semiconscious dogs and other animals were suspended from slings and shot with high-powered weapons to inflict injuries for crude medical training drills. The military also cut-off the limbs of live goats with tree trimmers, stabbed live pigs, and pulled out their internal organs. The bill’s passage gives all U.S. military branches their marching orders: No animal […]
‘SOLIDARITY’ CONFINEMENT: Jailed animal rights activist being kept in cell 23 hours a day
‘SOLIDARITY’ CONFINEMENT: Jailed animal rights activist being kept in cell 23 hours a day
Jailed animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg is being kept in solitary confinement. In exchange for keeping equipment needed as a result of her diabetes, she is kept apart from other inmates. ‘It’s a few days into my jail sentence’, Rosenberg wrote from jail this week, ‘I spend nearly 23 hours a day in a small cell, almost entirely in isolation. When I get to briefly leave, I enter a common area by myself’. A jury found Rosenberg guilty of felony conspiracy and three misdemeanors for taking four abused chickens from the Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse. She is serving 30 days in […]
