Time for the fish factory farmers to pay for the environmental damage they cause. http://bit.ly/aAz6OT… Read More
Asian carp were first introduced to southern states of the US from China in the 1970s to help clean tanks in fish farms. They escaped and for more than 30 years have steadily worked their way up the Mississippi river system, devouring food and devastating native fish populations along the way. Last December, DNA of… Read More
UK govt agency reports worker abuse by meat processors. Are the veg/vegan, anti-factory farming groups speaking out? http://bit.ly/ahCJFC… Read More
An Equality and Human Rights Commission inquiry has uncovered widespread evidence of the mistreatment and exploitation of migrant and agency workers in the meat and poultry processing sector. Workers reported physical and verbal abuse and a lack of proper health and safety protection, with the treatment of pregnant workers a particular concern. Many workers had… Read More
Hastings MP refuses public debate with local BNP. Tory and LibDem candidates condemn him but follow his lead in not being present.… Read More
Successful afternoon yesterday collecting signatures for my Back the Ban! keep bloodsports legal petition. http://bit.ly/9vqp8f… Read More
Fellow anti-bloodsports activists Julia and Sara joined me in tabling in Hastings Old Town yesterday. Many people voluntarily approached us to sign the petition after they had read the 10 foot banner, which said “Back the Ban: Don’t Let the Tories Bring Back Hunting.” You can sign the electronic petition here.… Read More
Why Fur is Not Off Our Backs. Why the anti-fur campaign is failing. http://bit.ly/ayhqrX… Read More
Oh dear. Yet another report proclaiming “Fur is back!” This time it’s The New York Times and “Fashion Feels Fur’s Warm Embrace.” “For the first time in more than two decades, more designers are using fur than not,” it says. Turns out that the furriers have “aggressively courted designers, especially young ones, to embrace fur… Read More
Some thoughts on experimenting with truth. http://bit.ly/cRECgn… Read More
Published originally in 1929, Gandhi called his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth. I like the association of truth with experimentation. It reminds me that we are finite human beings wholly incapable of understanding the universe and, therefore, what truth truly means. For a truth to be true it must be universal. How can… Read More
A Tourette’s-afflicted woman is suing her brother for kicking her out of a shiva service in 2007, but her brother claims she had to be ejected after saying “F–k the rabbi.” Karen Feld filed a $110 million federal lawsuit against her brother—Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus boss Kenneth Feld—after her sibling allegedly had… Read More
Table in support of the Back the Ban! campaign in Hastings & Rye. Email me at kim@kimstallwood.com.… Read More
Why don’t Chief Execs of some of the UK’s leading animal welfare groups not have the courtesy of responding to email? Or delegating it?… Read More
It was the sight of a diminutive Diana monkey attacking a giant crowned eagle in the treetops of the Tai forest in Ivory Coast, west Africa, that gave Klaus Zuberbühler his great insight into the language of monkeys. […] It means that humans, used to regarding ourselves as unique in our ability to think and… Read More
having a meeting with my MP Michael Foster who is very pro-animal welfare… Read More
thinking about relaunching grumpy vegan. tweet me with any thoughts.… Read More
Swiss voters soundly rejected a plan to appoint special lawyers for animals that are abused by humans, dealing a blow to advocates who say Switzerland’s animal rights laws are not being enforced. Results showed that 70.5% of voters cast their ballot against the proposal to extend nationwide a system that has been in place in… Read More
What is “Change” about Cameron when he’s for preserving hunting, inheritance and hereditaries, while abolishing the 50p tax rate as soon as possible? Unlike Ashcroft, the horror of Tory cuts will stay hidden by The Guardian‘s Polly Toynbee… Read More