The scared, attention starved dogs wag their tails shyly and are anxious to please but when the dosing begins, their tails stop wagging, they struggle and cry. … Dog number 3216 had a bowel movement immediately after dosing. He salivated and foamed at the mouth. He retched and eventually vomited clear, foamy liquid. He lay […]
Category: animal rights
In the animal rights community, we often repeat a quote by Sir Paul McCartney: “if slaughterhouses had glass walls, the world would be vegetarian“. I have spent the greater part of my life believing this adage to be true — that if only people knew what was going on, the world would be a very […]
If empathy is a muscle, apathy is also a muscle. So what do we train our bodies, minds and hearts to be capable of, when we train them to be indifferent to injustice? On my social media feed, I watch impotently a video of a crying Palestinian Surgeon and father amputating his teenage daughter’s leg […]
“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I’ll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.” – Audre Lorde Today, people are celebrating May Day but for me, this day marks another occasion, one tinged with sorrow: it’s the day […]
It is with a sense of relief that we greet the online release of the new documentary film, The Animal People, this week. After more than a decade of being dismissed as criminals and extremists, a side to our story is finally going to be told. Produced by Joaquin Phoenix, the film follows the journey of the […]
“I hesitate to call them activists; they are terrorists”
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Coming Back From Repression
This week has been incredibly intense for me. I think I’ve experienced just about every range of emotions possible: fear, sadness, admiration, anxiety, doubt, awe, outrage, pain, grief, anger, regret, guilt, frustration, pride, heartbreak, hope & love. All I’ve ever wanted to do in my life is to help stop animal suffering but twelve years […]