The New York Times recently endorsed California’s Proposition 2,calling for all other states to enact similar legislation. The question of animal welfare legislation has become increasingly vexed within the animal advocacy movement. The seemingly intractable dispute between proponents and opponents of measures intended to increase the well-being of farmed animals has left many activists feeling [...]
In Defense of Actual Animals
October 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Issues, Reports
Tags: activism·strategic analysis
Other Kinds of Bird Cages
September 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Issues
Rats. Cats. Rabbits. Dogs.
Monkeys.
These are the animals we imagine locked up in vivisection labs, subjected to hurtful and often perverse experiments the purpose of which — beyond the satisfaction of abstract curiosity — is often unclear. Cats and rabbits burned by noxious poisons. Rats purposely starved to death. Dogs trapped in cages with electrified floors. [...]
Tags: activism·birds·chickens·genetic engineering·vivisection
Seize the Day
August 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · News, Reports
Located in a rural region where the local poultry industry participates in the global economy by killing and cutting up more than a million chickens a day, the Eastern Shore Sanctuary & Education Center is committed to the project of building a movement capable of catalyzing the worldwide changes in agriculture, trade, consumption, and attitudes [...]
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