Category: Animal rights

Animal rights, Factory farms

The Eight Freedoms of Farm Animal Wellbeing

Under the rubric of The Eight Freedoms farm animals are supported to live meaningful, happy, and long lives; they will have encounters that enrich their experience of living; they can enjoy expressing inborn behaviors and capacities; and they will feel safe with and cared for by their human companions, who call them by name, attend to their needs, treat them with affection, and shepherd them into becoming elders. Continue reading The Eight Freedoms of Farm Animal Wellbeing

Unknown's avatarEileen Crist
Animal rights, Defaunation

Open letter to Faroe Islanders: Please stop the slaughter of whales and dolphins

To massacre animals in this way is not what indigenous humans would do. On the contrary, the Grind is more akin to what Western vivisectionists did when they cut into living animals in the name of science. Faroe islanders do the same, under more turbulent, uncontrolled circumstances, in the name of tradition. Continue reading Open letter to Faroe Islanders: Please stop the slaughter of whales and dolphins

Unknown's avatarThe Editors3 Comments
Animal rights, Defaunation

A liberté without freedom, an égalité devoid of fairness, and a fraternité blind to kinship: Life as a bird in France

Despite strong public opposition in France, hunting’s ever-thinning guise of heritage still remains robust enough to satisfy many politicians. Emmanuel Macron, the President, claims to be serious about biodiversity but is an advocate of the suite of barbaric practices that make up this tradition. Continue reading A liberté without freedom, an égalité devoid of fairness, and a fraternité blind to kinship: Life as a bird in France

Unknown's avatarJoe Gray