The globally unmanageable hopscotching of COVID-19 between living beings is today putting a spotlight on one of the most obscure, ruthless, and frivolous of animal use industries: the production of wild animals on fur farms,
Athletic shoe companies drive the killing of 2 million kangaroos a year in Australia Here’s a revelation for consumers in the hunt for athletic footwear: commercial shooters massacre more than two million kangaroos a year
The era of disregarding animal welfare laws cannot end soon enough Reports from China this week are delivering a dose of heartbreak and how-can-it-happen. Dog meat traders are butchering terrified and terrorized dogs at the infamous
Nike and nine other brands offer 59 models of soccer cleats made of kangaroo skin. That’s a step too far. The horror of Australia aflame in 2019 and 2020 has itself sparked a movement to
Sir Winston Churchill may have missed the mark by more than a few decades, but his vision for the future of food was characteristically bold and accurate. “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a
Nature — by that, I mean the Earth’s crust and atmosphere, its five kingdoms of living organisms, water and fire and rock, the effects of the sun and moon, and all other interrelated parts and
Impossible to Achieve ‘Social Distancing’ at Animal Factories and Slaughterhouses (This essay is the latest in our continuing series about the relationship between animal-use industries, pathogens and their effect on animal and human health.) In
(This is the latest essay in continuing series about animal-use industries that have the potential to spawn a new virus or other pathogen that threaten human and animal health) In what constitutes perhaps the riskiest
Deer Farms May Be a Next Threat to Wildlife and Human Health That We Aren’t Doing a Damn Thing About Private game farms keep deer behind big fences, slaughter them for meat or velvet, and
We are in disaster mode as a nation — sheltering in place, deploying FEMA and the National Guard, filling hospital beds with those showing the worst symptoms, and delivering food and other services to those