animal welfare

Found this site that seems to provide donations to good (animal related) causes if you shop via their site.

I’ve always thought that many of the issues I am concerned about—the environment, human rights, peace, overconsumption, animal welfare—are all really one big issue. Rarely have I encountered such a thorough examination of the connections between animal welfare and just about every other issue that concerns me than in the book 

If you ask the Colonel, he'll tell you that the only way to keep a prisoner in line is to see to it that he won't get up when you rub his face in the dirt. And the only way to keep the guards happy is to let them have their fun. That's the way it's always been down on the farm, because that's just how the Colonel likes it.

Oprah exposed some of the horrors inherent in the nature of the puppy mill business. However, she made, what we consider to be, a blunder when she defended the breeders by saying that they thought of these dogs as livestock. The implication is that livestock can be abysmally treated by their owners. Sign the petition and pass it along to everyone.

Huddler has started a new "Debate of the Day" feature and today's is sure to inspire some compelling conversation. Researchers are being aggressively persecuted for animal research - where should we draw the line between human benefit and animal cruelty? Add your two cents!

Eating supermarket beef is not only supporting blatant cruelty to animals, but the stuff you are putting in your mouth cannot be called food. It is disgusting. The easiest way that you can do your part to end this needless suffering is to go vegan or vegetarian>. If that is not an option at this time for you or your family, then please seek out grass fed beef for both the well being of the livestock and for the well being of your family.

The HSUS Disaster Services team has ramped up its response to the wildfire emergency in southern California, operating around the clock to rescue, shelter, and provide veterinary care to hundreds of animals.

A look at two of the issues surrounding the recent downer cows debacle.

A cow that escaped from a farm caused havoc on a motorway on the Gold Coast of Australia on Monday. Police say they were forced to put the cow down.

A family dog had to be rescued by emergency personnel after somehow slipping into a Montgomery County sewer.

Animal rights activists are angry over a scheduled bear hunt in New Jersey. Officials in Essex County say the hunt is necessary because the deer population is destroying vegetation, causing accidents and carrying ticks.

A New Hampshire neighborhood has a four-legged visitor that police and animal control officers haven’t been able to round up.

Protests are expected during a one day deer hunt at a Norristown park.

When rescuers learned a deer had fallen through the ice on a Connecticut lake, they answered the call and spent two hours saving the doe.

Conservationists and scientists scrambled Tuesday to determine what has killed at least 50 critically endangered crocodile-like reptiles in recent weeks in a river sanctuary in central India.