Tag: animal-welfare
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The royal societies: RSPCA and RSPB. Update
Another e-mail in from the RSPCA inviting people to join the “Big Conversation” about animals. By no means a terrible idea. I signed in to leave a comment and made my feelings about the Assured labelling scheme known in the appropriate section, “Farmed animals and food”. I do not envy the RSPCA Ambassador her job.…
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The royal societies: RSPCA and RSPB
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. From ‘The Second Coming’, W.B. Yeats. I am not sure I can continue to read…
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Charlotte Dujardin, update
Janice Turner writing in The Times today about this and the ‘Strictly’ scandals, confirms as I said that “Deploying a long whip to train a horse to raise its feet in a stationary trot called the piaffe is not unusual. Dujardin just overdid it. Dressage has other controversies. That elegant bowed stance known as “rollkur”…
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PETA calls for Levi’s boycott and Compassion in world farming
Other leading brands are moving with the times, but Levi’s is still using leather patches to carry their logo on the back of their jeans. Their welfare policy claims that animals’ health and welfare are protected. But the leather comes from filthy factory farms in countries where if legislation exists at all it is rarely…
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Beaver bombs part II
A review of the second part of Black Ops and Beaver Bombing; adventures with Britain’s wild mammals, by Fiona Mathews and Tim Kendall, Oneworld, 2023 The fifth chapter is all about bats and Horseshoe bats in particular. They are the authors’ special passion and that shines through. There are further atrocious puns although they do…