A Michael Broad Blog
I mean this news story beggars belief for me. It makes me very angry. It is about a failure of animal welfare generally and concerns a story that Tesco has suspended a pig farmer because the piglets were raised in abysmal conditions. Some secret video footage emerged showing far workers at Cross Farm in …
RELATED: Australian authorities violate animal welfare laws every day This is a cross post. And I am expressing my opinion on this news story, please note, as I feel I must. It’s an important story for people concerned with animal welfare. It’s an important story for people concerned about protecting animals from cruelty. And …
Bullfighting afficionados “understand even less that these forms of animal torture [bullfighting] are rewarded with medals that come with monetary prizes using public money.” The words of Spain’s culture minister (2024), Ernest Urtasun who has said that Spain’s bullfighting tradition is on its knees with only 1.9 percent of the population attending a bullfight …
A report from the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office alleges that two Douglas animal control officers dumped feral cats in the desert. Due to insufficient evidence, they will not face prosecution. The officers claimed they were rescuing the animals from euthanasia, yet allegations suggest they were aware the cats would not survive. The available information …
Thousands of times every day the authorities in Australia (excepting ACT) violate their own animal welfare laws; the laws they created. Yes, the politicians of Australia violate in a massive an unacceptable way the very laws that they created and nothing happens. There is a complete acceptance of it. Silence. I guess there must …
In the UK, children between the ages of 10 and 17 are not sent to adult prisons if convicted of a crime but, instead, to special secure centres. A range of other options are available including referral orders in which the young offender is referred to a panel of trained community volunteers and a …
Like others I expect, I am immensely impressed by the monumental effort of Jeffrey Beri and his team at the New York-based No Dogs Left Behind charity in rescuing dozens of cats and dogs in China where they were destined to be brutally tortured, then eaten. They were flown from China to New York. …
This mysterious Chinese gang of cat torturers and killers has garnered a lot of comment and discussion on the Internet because they are so disgustingly horrendous. The things that they get up to are mindbogglingly horrific. But their activities are shrouded in mirrors and smoke with different names in different stories. I have written …
