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Cruelty Trumps Compassion

March 13, 2012

(CELEBRITY NEWS) Pictures of Donald Jr. and Eric, Donald Trump’s two sons, have emerged on the internet showing the two posing with numerous dead animals. Last year, the Trumps went on a hunting spree in Africa. The animals killed included an elephant, a kudu, a civet cat, a crocodile, and a waterbuck. As word spread and people voiced their outrage, Donald Trump Jr. and his ego went on Twitter and wrote, “u think that went to waste? Hunters don’t do that Villagers who have no meat enjoyed that for weeks and were very grateful.” Read on for more. — Global Animal

Observing Lent? 15 Powerful Reasons To Go Veg

March 6, 2012

(VEGETARIAN/VEGAN LIVING) Want to make a positive change in your life during lent? Give up a meat-based diet and go vegetarian, or better still, vegan. Here are 15 powerful reasons you’re benefitting yourself, the planet, and animals with this plant-based diet. – Global Animal

Fast Food Chain Takes Aim At Factory Farming

February 29, 2012

(FACTORY FARMING) Chipotle’s short film titled Back to the Start depicts a small hog farmer who is unhappy with treatment of his animals and decides to go “back to the start” and break free from commercial farming. Read on and let us know if you think Chipotle’s ad will help change the way factory farms treat their animals. — Global Animal

Taking Animal Cruelty Out Of Education

February 28, 2012

(ANIMAL RESEARCH) Most students dread the day when they must dissect an animal for biology class. Although the practice has become less common in schools, the discussion continues over whether the educational benefit of dissections outweighs the damaging effects on the development of empathy and compassion in children. In this preview from her upcoming book Why Children Need Animals, child psychiatrist Dr. Sujatha Ramakrishna discusses why animal dissections in schools and universities do more harm than good. — Global Animal

Jon Stewart Gets It All Wrong, Albeit Hilariously

February 17, 2012

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is something I watch religiously.  I am a fan because they are usually dead right in their take on things. So, while still laughing, I cringed when they recently took on People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) about their lawsuit protecting Orcas (killer whales) as slaves from SeaWorld.

“The Grey:” A Bad Fairy Tale About Wolves

January 27, 2012

(MOVIE REVIEW) The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, is about an oil drilling team stranded in the middle of Alaskan wilderness after their plane crashes. But it’s not the dangerous weather that poses the biggest threat to these men, it’s a pack of wolves that are portrayed as blood-thirsty, vicious creatures. It’s hard not to get irked while watching The Grey since wolves just got delisted as an Endangered Species. It’s even harder to then read interviews with Joe Carnahan, the director, defending his portrayal of wolves as realistic, instead of simply admitting that it’s completely fictional. The idea that a pack of wild wolves that have never had contact with humans would go after humans in a territorial blood war is implausible at best, dangerously misleading at worst. 

A Letter To Men: Animal Aphrodisiacs Are Not A Turn-On

January 26, 2012

(ANIMAL WELFARE) It has been said that love covers a multitude of sins, but killing innocent animals to improve your love life is not one of them. Yet this practice continues all over the world, decimating a wide range of species from rhino to tigers. — Global Animals

Netherlands Woman Kills Animals for Art (TAKE ACTION)

January 24, 2012

(ANIMAL ABUSE/TAKE ACTION) AMSTERDAM — Dutch artist Katinka Simonse kills and mutilates animals in the name of performance art. Her blatant lack of respect for life has enraged animal activists and the Dutch animal welfare political party, Partij Voor de Dieren (Party for the Animals). Read on for Simonse’s disturbing form of “art,” and why many are petitioning against the Dutch government’s shortcomings on animal abuse. — Global Animal

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