On the occasion of a recent visit to Petersfield, Hampshire, I made a point of taking a look at Lyndum House in the High Street. In 1976 when I first… Read More
Periodically, I set tests for animal welfare/rights and vegan/vegetarian organisations in the UK and US to see if they past them. These tests are one of the ways I use… Read More
Rumours of Margaret Thatcher’s departure from this mortal coil continue. I wrote about my anxiety on how to react to the news of the inevitable here. Here’s another take from… Read More
Jill Howard Church, my colleague at the Animals and Society Institute, assesses the outbreak of Ag Gag Bills in various US states. She writes, By using its considerable financial and… Read More
Truly amazing photographs from Oscar Ciutat. See also comment from Andrew Sullivan.… Read More
Video streaming by Ustream Anonymous for Animal Rights… Read More
Remember the live feed from the egg-laying chicken factory farm in Israel? Now, JS West, a California-based company which owns factory farms, has a live feed on its own chicken… Read More
What would you like to see included in a new Website on vegan living? This is a vegan Web site which is aimed as much for vegans as it is… Read More
Whenever I read media reports alleging that animal rights activists threaten so and so because of such and such they do to animals, I always want to know if they… Read More
Further to my post two days ago which detailed the UK government’s ideological agenda determining that it would be too much regulation to prohibit animals from performing in circuses, respected… Read More
Remember in April I commented on press reports that the Conservative-led coalition government was set to ban wild animals from performing in circuses? I expressed reservation that this, indeed, would… Read More
The joy expressed worldwide on the news of Osama bin Laden’s death is simultaneously understandable and disturbing. Understandable because, like everyone else in the USA on September 11, 2001, it… Read More
Out of all the heartbreaking stories of animal abuse which happen by their thousands every day … every now and then one stands out and becomes a symbol for them… Read More