The words in the title are from Peter Singer who wrote the acclaimed book, Animal Liberation, published in 1975. In the book he argued that humankind had a tendency toward speciesism meaning that humans attach far greater importance to themselves … Continue reading →
TikTok is gathering a reputation for animal abuse. The administrators of TikTok don’t consider slapping your cat a form of animal abuse. If you want to report animal abuse the videos will have to be very cruel and nasty. Anything … Continue reading →
A California lawmaker has introduced a proposed law which would be a Bill of Rights for dogs and cats. The terminology is confusing because when you introduce a statute into legislation it’s called a ‘bill’ but the word is used … Continue reading →
NEWS AND COMMENT-CENTRE ROSA, CALIFORNIA: A man owns two aggressive dogs; one is a pit-bull and the other is a shepherd mix. They were allowed to roam freely in Santa Rosa and they attacked and killed two domestic cats who … Continue reading →
NEWS AND COMMENT: The New York Post tells me that, currently, there are two states in the United States where a lawyer represents the animal in animal cruelty cases in their passage through the criminal court. They act as the … Continue reading →
I can’t show the photograph of this injured goat because some advertisers won’t like it. It is here simply to illustrate the page. You can click on the link to see the photograph if you wish. Clearly it does not … Continue reading →
$20 billions of taxpayer’s money is spent on animal testing in the US annually. It is (1) a wasteful use of precious tax-payers’ money and (2) it is damned cruel and (3) many animal experiments can’t translate to human benefit. … Continue reading →
Joe Biden and his family live with a couple of German shepherds, Champ and Major. So there will be a dog in the White House again which is obviously a good thing. Trump was the first president in a 100 … Continue reading →
Elwood has been hanging around an Epworth healthcare center (hospital?) in Richmond, Australia. They don’t know where Elwood came from. He looks well fed and healthy which indicates that he has an owner but the story does not tell us … Continue reading →
A short video of astronauts gently throwing cats around under weightless conditions in an aircraft begs the question whether it is ethical. It also provokes me to think of how animals were used in the early days of space travel. … Continue reading →
