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Quash the Squash

4 The Love Of Animals

The RSPCA are trying to raise awareness of its urgent campaign to protect the welfare of UK meat chickens. Even at current minimum standards, each bird is given less space than a sheet of paper. But this legislation would allow yet more birds to be squashed in, cutting that space by almost a quarter. Tags: news.

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Why Is the Federal Government Awarding Contracts to a Company That Was Involved in Smuggling Primates?

Critter News

was started by Mathew Block to import primates into the US for animal experimentation. This is the case in which six infant orangs were discovered on February 20, 1990, at the Bangkok airport in two small containers marked "Live Birds." Biggest contracts: $232,500 with Army for Live Animals, Not Raised for Food.

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Animals Have Personalities? No WAY!

Animal Person

While other people might trade barbs or even turn to fisticuffs, I'd dig deep for the most hurtful thing I could say, in the fewest words, and deliver it without even raising my voice. This is great news for animal rights because it's one more piece of evidence that humans aren't as exceptional as we like to think we are.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

First, I will raise some questions that usually are not asked, let alone answered, by moral vegetarians. People who care only about humans, for example, will not be persuaded by “old” vegetarian arguments, for those arguments rested on concern for animals. Suppose you are marooned on a desert island inhabited by edible birds.