Activist jailed for freeing bear cub from a trap
An animal rights activist who freed a crying bear cub from a trap has been sentenced to 15 days in jail. Catherine McCartney, 50, has a history of arrests at bear hunt protests – once in each of 2016, 2017 and 2018. And despite being jailed on her fourth conviction she said does not regret …
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Vegan documentary ’73 Cows’ to be screened to policymakers at European parliament
Vegan documentary 73 Cows will be shown to policy makers at the European Parliament in Brussels in an attempt to inspire agricultural policy change. The BAFTA-winning documentary features former cattle farmer Jay Wilde, who gave his cows to an animal sanctuary in Norfolk as he couldn’t live with the idea of slaughtering them. Politicians in …
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Minister demands activists take down map of slaughterhouses “Before someone is killed”
Australia’s Agriculture Minister has told animal rights activists to remove an interactive map of farms ‘before someone is killed’. The Aussie Farms map, from the makers of documentary Dominion, shows the location of thousands of slaughterhouses and farms across Australia. Many locations labelled in the map have photos, videos, and documents attached in an aim to …
‘Multiple Sightings’ Reported Of An Officially Extinct Clouded Leopard Species
A leopard which hasn’t been spotted in the wild since the 1980s and was thought to be extinct has seemingly come back from the dead after multiple sightings were reported. The Formosan clouded leopard was declared officially extinct in 2013 in a depressing reflection of the damage of global warming and hunting on wildlife. But …
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Vegan activists storm Starbucks chanting ‘Not your mum, not your milk!’
Vegan activists have stormed into a Starbucks cafe chanting anti-dairy slogans to highlight the horrors of the dairy industry. Members of the global protest group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) walked into one of the coffee giant’s venues in Brighton, UK. One activist spoke into a megaphone: “Dairy cows are continuously artificially and forcibly impregnated. Every …
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Vegan activist Earthling Ed owns ‘high welfare’ butcher in live BBC debate
Vegan activist Earthling Ed was in typically inspiring form when he was pitted against a butcher on a live BBC debate last night (February 2). The animal rights campaigner featured on BBC One’s The Big Questions as the show asked ‘Is environmentalism the new religion?’. Presenter Nicky Campbell introduced Earthing Ed and a butcher, who …
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Shots fired after farmer clashes with vegans who were filming his cows
An Australian farmer fired shots after clashing with vegans at his property, amid complaints they were filming his cows and refusing to leave. Video footage showed activist James Warden of the group Direct Action Everywhere waiting in his car outside a farm in Harvey, rural Western Australia. Owner of the farm Jason Parravacini approached the car, …
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Meet the school children inspiring thousands to skip class to demand climate change action
A global wave of school strikes is set to continue this week as young people urge world leaders to make significant commitments on climate change. Renowned Swedish activist Greta Thunberg began the movement, which encourages students to walk out of class in organised mass protests aimed a catching the attention of powerful decision-makers. Last year, …
The mind-blowing statistics behind the vegan boom as interest in veganism outstrips meat
The days when veganism was dismissed by mainstream culture are well and truly gone, and there’s plenty of evidence that the plant-based surge is set to continue and here to stay. The first month of 2019 saw an explosion in the popularity of veganism, with Twitter predicting ‘vegan’ to be the biggest trend this year …
The brutal realities of leather: one billion animals slaughtered and abused every year
Every year the skin of a billion slaughtered animals is turned into leather for our wallets, jackets, handbags, shoes and furniture. Yet for a product so visible in society, misconceptions about the industry behind it are still incredibly common. Many people assume leather is sourced only from cows, and therefore simply a by-product of the meat …
Sacked vegan battles to have veganism protected by law as a ‘philosophical belief’
A vegan who claims he was sacked for his beliefs has crowdfunded £33,000 for a landmark case which will decide whether veganism is protected by law. A former employee of League Against Cruel Sports, Jordi Casamitjana, argues he was discriminated against by the company for being vegan. He claimed he was fired after he exposed …
Pope Francis offered $1m if he goes vegan for lent
Vegan campaigners have challenged Pope Francis to go vegan for Lent, with the promise that if he does they will donate $1m to a charity of his choice. Million Dollar Vegan, led by 12-year-old Genesis Butler, aims to encourage the world to go plant-based to help the environment and to combat climate change. Butler has …
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