Animal rescue group says it bought 1,500 beagles from Ridglan Farms
Animal rescue group says it bought 1,500 beagles from Ridglan Farms
Big Dog Ranch Rescue and the Center for a Humane Economy said they have entered into a confidential agreement with Ridglan Farms to buy 1,500 of the facility’s roughly 2,000 beagles for an undisclosed price. It’s unclear what the plans are for the remaining dogs. The 1,500 dogs will be transported later this week from Ridglan to partner agencies as well as to Big Dog Ranch Rescue facilities in Florida and Alabama. ASSOCIATED PRESS: Animal refuge groups said Wednesday that they have agreed to buy nearly 1,500 beagles at a Wisconsin dog breeding and research business that was the site […]
MEAT-HOOKED: Is it harder to cut back on meat than to quit smoking?
MEAT-HOOKED: Is it harder to cut back on meat than to quit smoking?
For two decades, researchers have studied the relative effectiveness of different approaches to motivate people to reduce their meat consumption. Their results point to a stark conclusion: that it is nearly impossible to motivate large numbers of people to reduce meat consumption through campaigns that rely on convincing them it is bad for their health, the environment, and for animals. Most people already know this — and yet they continue to eat meat. Rather, meaningful meat‑reduction efforts may need to incorporate strategies similar to those that produced the remarkable success of the anti‑smoking movement. These included taxation and price increases […]
A Drift Toward Apathy: What the slowdown of veganism reveals about American culture
A Drift Toward Apathy: What the slowdown of veganism reveals about American culture
The recent cultural decline of veganism isn’t about the failure of its ethics; rather, it’s about the cultural mood that once made those ethics feel contagious. The question is whether animal ethics can be re-rooted inside a broader politics of care. The next wave of veganism won’t look like the last. It won’t be driven by hype cycles or celebrity endorsements, but by something slower and harder to extinguish: a communal refusal to keep treating cruelty as normal. Whether that takes hold depends less on markets than on whether people can recover a basic sense that their choices matter — […]
