Posts from the ‘Animals’ category

Westminster Porn Show

One of the world's few remaining pageants of objectification and commoditization.
The ‘Animal Rights’ Paradox

How's the animal rights movement doing? If you rate it by the simple question "How many animals have rights?" you'd have to say "Not very well." Call it the animal rights paradox.
At Sundance, a Triumph for "Unlocking the Cage"

Premiered at Sundance, the movie follows attorney Steven M. Wise as he argues to a high court judges that chimpanzee Tommy has the capacity for legal rights and should be set free…
Pigs: Smart & Machiavellian

Winston Churchill famously said: “A dog looks up to you; a cat looks down on you; only a pig treats you as an equal.” But that, of course, is hardly how we treat them…
Half the World’s Wildlife Destroyed in the Last 40 Years

In a sane world, it would be headline news. Everything else would immediately come to a screeching halt to make way for a massive, worldwide attempt to turn things around. (Of…

The Whale Who Took Down SeaWorld

Egg Industry Concession Is No ‘Victory’

For Chimps, the End of Vivisection, Almost

Cecil Is the Least of It

And So It Begins . . .

The incoming Trump administration promises to accelerate the disaster that’s now underway for animals and for the planet overall.

True Heroes

In a war-torn region, three stories of people fostering life in the midst of death.

Rivers of Blood

Sounds like something straight out of the ancient Biblical Ten Plagues: rivers of blood flowing down city streets. Except that it was happening last week right…

More Killing – Always the Answer

This week we’ve had the war on cats and the war on wild horses. Last week, it was wolves, and the week before, goats. Why are we always at war with the other animals?

Sacred Cows and Sacrificial Wolves

What goes wrong when well-meaning animal advocates make deals with businesses and agencies that don’t have the interests of the animals at heart.

What Do Dolphins ‘See’ with Their Ears?

Imagine having two separate auditory circuits in your brain. That’s what dolphins have. So, what does the second one do??

Dingoes Armed with Suicide Time Bombs

Dingoes are being released onto an island in Australia to kill the feral goats. The dingoes have been implanted with poison “time-bombs” that will then kill them.

Meanwhile, on the South China Sea . . .

A classic case of international greed in the name of economic “progress” that’s destroying vast numbers of animals and their homes.

Some Sunlight for Chickens

Perdue Foods, announces new “humane” policies, like having windows in at least some of its chicken factory barns. Wow … windows!

Two Aquariums, Two Choices

As the National Aquarium announces bold plans to create a seaside sanctuary for its dolphins, an exploitation company builds a swim-with-dolphins center in the Arizona desert.

Are You More Important than a Gorilla?

In a world of 7.3 billion thoroughly destructive humans and just 125,000 very peaceable gorillas, was Harambe’s life worth less than Isaiah Dickerson’s?

Can There Ever Be a ‘Humane Economy’?

Is it possible for us humans to coexist peacefully with our fellow animals in a modern capitalist economy? Two books come to opposite conclusions.

Conservation, Restoration, Reparation

Even though we can never fully recompense these apex predators for what they’ve lost, having their own sanctuary can help to heal the deep wounds we have inflicted upon the fabric of nature itself.

New Whale Sanctuary Project

It’s the dawn of a new era for whales and dolphins. A new organization has been formed to create seaside sanctuaries for whales and dolphins being retired from marine circuses.

Circus Lions Fly to Sanctuary. Orcas Soon?

On the same day SeaWorld was pushing back against retiring killer whales to sanctuaries, 33 lions from circuses in Peru were heading to a sanctuary in South Africa.

The Great Octopus Escape – and Others!

Great escapes like those of Inky, Frank Lee Bull and the priceless Tamworth Two, remind us that our fellow animals prize freedom as highly as we do.

Imagining Ourselves as Animals

What would it be like to be eaten by a large predator? We humans are, after all, basically a prey species, and our drive to dominance is a product of human frailty.

SeaWorld’s Three Whoppers

It was all a bit too good to be true. Even as the CEO of SeaWorld and the CEO of the Humane Society of the U.S. were smiling together, SeaWorld was preparing an advertising blitz trashing animal protection organizations with a series of blatant untruths.