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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

10,000 Birds

What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats.

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Suit Filed Over Cows Killed to Drive Up Milk Prices

Critter News

A Seattle law firm is taking on dairies, claiming that a price-fixing scheme has consumers paying too much for milk. The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. dairy cows were slaughtered over seven years to artificially reduce the supply of milk and drive up prices.

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Study Claims Islamic Slaughtering More Humane

Critter News

I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. According to the researchers, the Islamic method wins. You can read all about the results in the article. What an utterly grotesque project.

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

10,000 Birds

But no one who has ever cared for another creature – be it bird, animal, or human – can comprehend, much less cope with, this kind of brutal, pointless killing. What about people who are kind and decent and obey the law? Between the adults and their eggs, the three of them killed 32 live albatrosses.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18).

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It's Back! The Horror of Horse Slaughter in DeKalb

Animal Ethics

Think of your favorite horror film: A brutal ruthless killer is on the loose, slashing hapless innocent victims to death right and left. After witnessing hours if not days of senseless killing, someone finally musters the courage to take on the killer and delivers what has to be a devastating blow. Then, on July 5, 2007, U.S.

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Listen Today on WALO Radio

Animal Person

The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants. Some key words are in English at the website, which gives clear instructions for streaming. There's an Archive icon for possible later listening.