Opinion: Mounting concern for both the treatment of animals on Canadian farms and the environmental harms caused by animal agriculture is fuelling an increase in activism
Tag Archives: animal rights
The elephant in the room for the animal rights movement
The killing of the gorilla Harambe is sad. But in choosing between its life and that of a human child, the choice was obvious
The circus elephant takes a final bow
From 2016: After a long battle with animal rights groups, the era of the circus elephant is coming to a bitter close
What kind of fur? People who buy $100 toques don’t care.
For animal rights activists, the Kit and Ace pom-pom investigation comes balled up with questions of cruelty, labelling laws and social responsibility.
The shame of zoos
Barbara Amiel on the slums no one is talking about
Lennox the dog, sable martyr of Ulster
Lennox is dead. The black “pit bull type” canine became an internet sensation over the past few weeks as authorities in Belfast prepared to execute him under the Dangerous Dogs Act of 1992, which outlaws such animals. Lennox was euthanized early Wednesday despite worldwide appeals from celebrities, including Americans who offered to find a new home for him in the U.S. The family was not allowed to visit the dog before his death, or to be present for it; they learned first from a radio interviewer that the council order had been carried out. They haven’t been given their pet’s body, either; they have instead been told by city council that his ashes will be mailed to them.
Big Food companies rush to rejig recipes
Consumers increasingly demand meals that are not only healthier, but more ‘natural’
France and Quebec’s artificial controversy over halal meat
The lands of foie gras and puppy mills are suddenly horrified by animal slaughter
Why whales and dolphins should qualify as ‘non-human people’
They can understand numbers and abstract concepts and have their own distinct culture and traditions
Medicine without animal research
Controversy over UBC experiments on monkeys