The author, Martin Whybrow, speaks to pioneers, the NGOs, today’s grassroots campaigners, and those devising new tactics. He reports from the factory farms to the protest camps, from the countryside ravaged by hunting and the badger cull to street protests. Whether liberating animals, investigating factory farms, standing in front of hunters, spreading the word through outreach, using the law to block factory farms, or buying and re-wilding dairy land, there are plenty of heroes out there. And they need you to stand with them. VOICES FOR THE ANIMALS: The book ‘How Long Shall These Things Be?’ captures the voices of […]
ONE WAY, OR ANOTHER: We’ll save the limping beagle mom the government left to die
ONE WAY, OR ANOTHER: We’ll save the limping beagle mom the government left to die
In June 2024, Wisconsin state inspectors performed a routine inspection at Ridglan Farms, a beagle breeding and experimentation facility. And they found something disturbing inside. Dogs, including a mother pup, struggling to walk after living a lifetime on metal wire. She was just one of thousands of dogs who had never felt anything soft. But the company did not seem worried, even as they faced criminal complaints by reputable prosecutors. It was as if they saw themselves as above the law. When animals are being criminally abused, we have the right to rescue them. Whether in the court of law […]
‘The Whirlwind Moment’: Storytelling, logistics, and decentralized leadership will be crucial for animal rights
‘The Whirlwind Moment’: Storytelling, logistics, and decentralized leadership will be crucial for animal rights
In the history of social justice, ‘whirlwind’ moments have been crucial to social change. In ‘This Is An Uprising’ — the book that has become a bible for social justice activists — a whirlwind moment is described as ‘a dramatic public event… that sets off a flurry of activity, and that… quickly spreads beyond the institutional control of any one organization. It inspires a rash of decentralized action, drawing in people previously unconnected to established movement groups’. The Ridglan Farms beagle rescue on March 15 may be the animal rights movement’s whirlwind moment. WAYNE HSIUNG: On March 15, 100+ activists […]
