Monday, September 5, 2011

More than 50 Sheep facing slaughter commit mass suicide in Turkey


A man removes the bodies of 52 sheep that leapt to their deaths in a mass suicide in Turkey.
RIA Novosti
A man removes the bodies of 52 sheep that 
leapt to their deaths in a mass suicide in Turkey.

Maybe they knew what was coming.
More than 50 sheep on their way to slaughter in Turkey beat their executioners to the punch and jumped to their deaths in an unexplained and unprovoked mass suicide.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Fish Can't Feel Pain? Don't Be So Sure

“But why not at least eat fish? They can’t feel pain anyway”.
Growing up vegetarian, this was an argument I encountered on a regular basis. I always balked at it, for a couple of different reasons. First, was the implication that the inability to feel pain somehow caused a life to be of lesser value. The other was, perhaps, a bit more complicated. How, I would ask, can we be sure that fish really don’t feel pain?

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Breaking Investigation: Behind Indonesia's Exotic-Skins Trade

Every year in the exotic-skins industry, millions of snakes, lizards, crocodiles, and other animals are grotesquely abused and cruelly killed. Welfare is never a consideration for those who hunt, poach, farm, abuse, and kill these animals to turn them into bags, shoes, belts, gloves, and other accessories.

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