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 […]
‘We all connected over Flaco’: Artists turn beloved animals into symbols of their U.S. cities
‘We all connected over Flaco’: Artists turn beloved animals into symbols of their U.S. cities
MATTHEW CANTOR: Working near Central Park, one New Yorker regularly witnessed one of its most beloved residents: Flaco the owl, who became a celebrity after escaping the nearby zoo. The woman took the bird’s message to heart, re-evaluated her life and decided to quit her job. Now, she’s one of dozens with a Flaco tattoo. “They’ll be walking around the rest of their lives, that name and owl on their arm,” says Duke Riley, an environmental artist… A month earlier, the bird’s well-wishers had gathered in Central Park for a memorial service, featuring speeches, poetry and music inspired by him. […]
