FREEDOM ROAD: How far should we carry the logic of the animal rights movement?
FREEDOM ROAD: How far should we carry the logic of the animal rights movement?
KALEFA SANNEH: There is a name for the cruel, and correspondingly clandestine, process by which many animals become meat: “factory farming,” a term that is usually wielded as an insult, especially since the publication, in 1975, of “Animal Liberation,” an incendiary book by the philosopher Peter Singer. “In general, we are ignorant of the abuse of living creatures that lies behind the food we eat,” Singer wrote, and he wanted to destroy both this ignorance and the industry behind the abuse. He halfway succeeded. “Animal Liberation” helped bring new militancy to a cause formerly associated with decorous humane societies and […]
BRED FOR ‘BREAD’: The dark reality of profit-driven wildlife farms
BRED FOR ‘BREAD’: The dark reality of profit-driven wildlife farms
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: An estimated 5.5 billion wild animals are being kept in cruel conditions on commercial wildlife farms, new research by World Animal Protection reveals… ‘Bred for Profit: The Truth About Global Wildlife Farming‘ report reveals for the first time the vast scale of this exploitative industry in which billions of wild animals are bred to be traded as pets, used for entertainment or tourist attractions, and turned into ornaments, luxury food, fashion products or traditional medicine (TM). Researchers found an astonishing lack of transparency and inadequate monitoring across the global multi-billion-dollar industry, where sentient animals are treated as […]
THE WAY THEY WERE, STILL ARE: What life was like for animals in America before people learned to love ‘pets’
THE WAY THEY WERE, STILL ARE: What life was like for animals in America before people learned to love ‘pets’
SCOTTIE ANDREW: More than 100 years before Morrissey declared that “meat is murder,” before PETA supporters disrupted runway shows featuring leather fashions, before documentaries like “Food, Inc.” galvanized viewers to reconsider their relationship to animal products, there was Henry Bergh, shouting about animal rights on street corners to anyone who would listen. In 1866, Bergh, who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), would regularly station himself on a New York street, waiting for a carriage driver to lash their horse. When he witnessed abuse, he often arrested the perpetrator himself and launched into a […]
