The Atlas Vegan Community School, the first primary school in Uganda based in Rwamagabo Village, has won the Compassionate School Award from TeachKind, PETAâs humane education division. The award consists of a $1,000 donation, and a box of free teaching materials, Founded by the African vegan charity LUV 4 ALL, Atlas Vegan Community School helps…
Historically, women have played a very important âalthough hiddenâ role in the fight for the rights and liberation of animals, and they continue to do so. Many animal causes and some aspects of feminism have been closely related for centuries. Since the 19th century, many feminists were crucial in the constitution of the first organizations in defense…
Barrow Borough Council in Dalton-on-Furness, Cumbria, England, have been investigating Safari Zoo Cumbria after the anti-captivity organisation Born Free claimed to have found problems when it investigated the zoo in 2022. The landlord of the zoo premises, Zoo Investment Company (ZIC), also raised concerns about animalsâ food and water. Born Free…
The communications corporation Movistar has decided to drop Canal Toros, a TV channel in Spain dedicated to bullfighting that has been running for 30 years. The channel will stop transmitting to subscribers from 23rd March 2023. For a moment, it appeared that this decision was been reconsidered due to pressure from the bullfighting lobby, but on 21st…
Damian Hall, a plant-based runner who chose the vegan diet mainly for environmental reasons, has won the 268 miles 2023 ultramarathon The Spine Race, which crosses the Pennine mountain range in the north of England. This tough race includes 13,000 metres of height gain, and this year there were very adverse weather conditions, including very cold temperatures…
Several animal protection organizations in the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao have filed summary proceedings against the Curaçao Animal Protection Foundation (Dierenbescherming Curaçao), which is planning a stray animal catch campaign in which it is claimed people will receive compensation for picking up dogs and cats from the street. Curaçao…
The Valencian Community, an autonomous region in eastern Spain, has approved a new animal welfare law that bans wild animals in circuses and protects companion animals, including hunting dogs. On 22nd February 2023, the Valencian Parliament passed the Animal Welfare Law of the Valencian Community, replacing the previous law that was almost 30 years…
A group of high school students from New Babylon Town, New York, US, have been pressuring the local authorities to strengthen the code that deals with the welfare of companion animals. The Babylon Town Board has been debating amending a Town âDogs and Other Animalsâ code that deals with issues such as animals left outside in extreme weather. Bennett…
On 20th February 2023, the Cambridge Studentsâ Union in Cambridge, England, voted on gradually removing all animal products from its cafes and canteens. This does not guarantee that Cambridgeâs catering services will go fully vegan, as such a decision will have to be taken by the university, not its students. It also does not apply to the universityâs…
On 15th February 2023, House Bill 95, the Working Animal Protection Act, in the US state of Wyoming, failed on its third and final reading in the House, despite unanimously passing the committee stage. The bill was brought by state Rep. Rachel Rodriguez-Williams (R-Cody) aiming at shielding rodeo and other animal-related events from the scrutiny and…
Los cerdos son uno de los animales mĂĄs explotados histĂłricamente. La industria cĂĄrnica mata a cerca de 1500 millones de cerdos cada año en todo el mundo. Es decir que, cada dĂa, al menos 4 millones de cerdos son asesinados para consumo humano. Esto los convierte en el tercer animal mĂĄs explotado por comida en el mundo, despuĂ©s de los pollos y…
Pigs are one of the most exploited animals historically. The meat industry kills about 1.5 billion pigs every year around the world. In other words, every day, at least 4 million pigs are killed for human consumption. This makes them the worldâs third most exploited animal for food, after chickens and fish. But the problem is not only the number of…
For years, South Korea has been staging spectacles called âfighting bullsâ (not to be confused with bullfighting) where two bulls are pitted against each other and the public bets on the winner, but Korean animal protection organisations want them banned. Article 8 of the Korean Animal Protection Act states that it is illegal to inflict an injury…
The animal protection campaigner Jordi Casamitjana discusses the exploitation of animals used in publicity and advertising I try to post it every year now. Thanks to the âmemoriesâ function of Facebook that reminds you about the anniversaries of some popular posts you posted in previous years, now I remember about it almost every year and I repost…
On 27th February 2023, International Polar Bear Day, the international wildlife charity Born Free launched a new report exposing the true extent of the suffering of polar bears in zoos across Europe. The report, titled âBorn to Roam: The Suffering of Polar Bears in Zoosâ, outlines the continuing plight of the polar bears that are still incarcerated…
El activista antitaurino Jordi Casamitjana habla sobre la industria taurina que lleva dĂ©cadas operando en Estados Unidos Hay nueve, no ocho, como mucha gente cree. Si se cuenta al paĂs vasco como un paĂs separado (como lo harĂan los vascos nacionalistas), entonces serĂa diez. No importa quĂ© criterios se use, son mĂĄs de ocho. SolĂa haber mĂĄs…
DespuĂ©s de que un reciente fallo de la Corte Constitucional colombiana dijera que se deberĂa permitir que las corridas de toros regresen a la capital, BogotĂĄ, a pesar de que la ciudad las detuvo en 2020, el presidente de la RepĂșblica, Gustavo Petro, ha pedido al Congreso que apruebe una ley para prohibir las corridas de toros en todo el paĂs. La…
El grupo internacional de derechos de los animales AnimaNaturalis, fundado en España, ha hecho pĂșblico video que obtuvo investigando cinco granjas de visones ubicadas en las regiones autonĂłmicas españolas de Galicia y Castilla y LeĂłn. Las imĂĄgenes, grabadas en los inviernos de 2020 y 2021, muestran animales, mantenidos en condiciones antihigiĂ©nicas…
El director de un zoolĂłgico en el estado de Guerrero, en el sur de MĂ©xico, fue despedido tras la detecciĂłn de presuntas irregularidades en el manejo de algunos animales, incluida la matanza de algunos de los animales cautivos para alimentar a los trabajadores del centro. SegĂșn Fernando Ruiz, jefe de la SecretarĂa de Vida Silvestre de la SecretarĂa…
La campaña vegana global Veganuary, que alienta a las personas a probar la dieta vegana durante enero, ha estado creciendo en AmĂ©rica Latina desde que se lanzĂł allĂ en 2020. La ONG del mismo nombre que la dirige fue fundada originalmente en el Reino Unido hace diez años, y durante este año mĂĄs de 700 mil personas se registraron en todo el mundo…
The global vegan campaign Veganuary which encourages people to try the vegan diet during January has been growing in Latin America since it was launched there in 2020. The NGO of the same name that runs it was originally founded in the UK ten years ago, and during this year more than 700 thousand people registered worldwide. Its presence in Spanish…
The zoologist Jordi Casamitjana explains why vegans do not eat molluscs such as oysters, mussels, or snails, despite some people claiming they can. It probably was my first act of animal liberation. When I was a child, I used to free snails who had been collected after a rainy day and kept starving for a couple of days before being cooked alive. I grew…
In January 2023, a new bill was introduced in the Connecticut General Assembly to ban kangaroo products. If passed, the Kangaroo Protection Act of 2023 (H.B. 5113) will prohibit the sale, barter or offering of dead kangaroos and any products derived from dead kangaroos within the state. Australia continues to allow kangaroo shooting for commercial reasons…
After a video was made public showing people pulling a fox out of a den and then throwing it to fox hounds, three men have been arrested in Wiltshire, England, on suspicion of wildlife offences. The men, from Lacock, Bromham, and Devizes, were all arrested on 10th February 2023 on suspicion of offences connected to hunting a wild animal with dogs. The…
The animal rights organisation PETA has gone undercover to expose Anheuser-Busch Companies LLC, the company that produces the American beer Budweiser, for painfully amputating the tails of Clydesdale Horses exploited to pull the traditional wagons the company uses for publicity, in a practice banned in several states called âtail dockingâ. PETA…
