Paul McCartney and The Wombles team up for Meat-Free Monday campaign
“Reducing the amount of meat we eat is good for the planet, good for animals and good for our health.” The legendary Wombles- the famous stop motion animated British television series made in 1973–1975 – have joined Sir Paul McCartney’s Meat Free Monday campaign. The collab is part of the One Step Greener campaign for …
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Eco mob scale government building in COP26 protest
“We need system change if we’re going to do what’s needed to protect the planet and all life as we move forward into an uncertain future.” Animal rights activists scaled a government building to demand authorities stop funding the meat industry and support alternative food systems instead. Four Animal Rebellion demonstrators climbed the government building …
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Moby calls for animal agriculture to be on the COP26 agenda
“We need to stop using animals for food, because animal agriculture is the third leading cause of climate change.” Musician and animal activist Moby has called on the UN climate change conference to make animal agriculture’s damaging impact on the environment central to the agenda. He has urged the world leaders to “stop ignoring the …
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WHAT: Pig kidney is successfully transplanted into a human
“Pigs aren’t spare parts and should never be used as such just because humans are too self-centered to donate their bodies to patients desperate for organ transplants.” US surgeons have successfully attached a pig’s kidney to a human body in what is being hailed as a ‘watershed moment’ in the decades-long mission to one day …
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Climate activists storm Louis Vuitton catwalk
The demonstration was to put a spotlight on the fashion industry’s wasteful tendencies and its implication on the environment. This week, climate protestors stormed Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2022 runway show in Paris’s famous Louvre museum to condemn the excessive consumption in the fashion industry and its impact on climate change. Five Extinction Rebellion, Amis de …
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1428 dolphins killed in an illegal hunt
The scale of the hunt is being described as possibly the largest single hunt of cetaceans ever recorded worldwide. On 12 September, a super-pod of 1428 Atlantic white-sided dolphins were ambushed and slaughtered as part of an illegal hunt, international marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd reported. According to the non-profit, the scale of the hunt is …
GO CLARKE: Vegan café owner counters customer’s one star review with epic reply
The non-profit vegan enterprise trains and employs adults with learning disabilities A vegan café owner has responded brilliantly to a one-star review that claimed the customer was ‘forced’ to drink a ‘porridge tasting’ oat milk cappuccino. A customer rated Café Van Gogh – a 100% vegan restaurant in Brixton – one star on Tripadvisor because …
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BREAKING: MPS unite to push for UK ban of fur imports
“It’s now time that we end the double-standard of having a ban on fur farming, whilst importing the same cruelty from overseas.” A coalition of MPs is calling on the government to ban the sale and import of real animal fur in Britain. Conservative MP Christian Wakeford led the debate on UK’s fur trade on …
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Billie Eilish wears Oscar de la Renta to Met Gala after designer commits to ditch fur forever
“I’m honored to have been a catalyst and to have been heard on this matter. I urge all designers to do the same.” Yesterday, Billie Eilish made a stunning debut on the Met Gala red carpet in a breathtaking Oscar de la Renta gown made of peach tulle. However, even bigger than her gown’s 15-foot …
Animal Rebellion targets Buckingham Palace for fueling animal and climate crises
The group, which is an arm of the environmental organization Extinction Rebellion, says the protest is to ‘symbolize the royal family’s crimes against animals and our planet’. Animal Rebellion campaigners held a protest at Buckingham Palace and put fake blood in a fountain outside the royal household to excoriate the Queen for having “blood on …
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‘Absolutely Fabulous’ Star Joanna Lumley urges University to stop ‘traumatizing’ experiments on baby rats
“And what do these tests do besides traumatising animals? Absolutely nothing,…” Joanna Lumley is urging the University Of Bristol to end its “ghastly” use of the forced swim test. The BAFTA-winning actor and staunch animal rights activist has written a letter to the University’s vice-chancellor and president, Hugh Brady – requesting to forgo the ‘traumatizing’ …
Demonstrators block busy junction in central London to kick off protests ‘targeting root cause of climate crisis’
“If [politicians] are in any way serious about tackling this existential crisis then they would immediately stop financing fossil fuels because continuing to pour petrol on a fire is an obvious sign of insanity.” Yesterday, Extinction Rebellion campaigners held a protest at one of Covent Garden’s busiest junctions to “target the root cause of the …