Tag: Factory farming
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Do Giraffes Grieve? The Inner Life of Animals.
WILD LIONS of Tanzania HUNT GIANTS | Full Wildlife Documentary Do giraffes grieve? Yes, with not a scintilla of doubt in my mind having watched this beautiful if sometimes harrowing documentary – nature red in tooth and claw. We see lionesses hunting and killing a giraffe – almost nothing goes to waste, other predators and…
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Guy Shrubsole. The Lie of the Land. Book review. Part I
The Lie of the Land. Who Really Cares for the Countryside? William Collins, 2024. This essential book follows on from the author’s superb Who Owns England?: how we lost our green and pleasant land, and how to take it back, William Collins, 2019, which forensically details who actually owns our countryside. Now he explodes the…
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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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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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Restore Nature Now
For the first time, on June 22nd, I decided to join a march. With notable exceptions I am not sure how much they tend to achieve, but this was a glorious, colourful, peaceful and happy demonstration, in spite of the seriousness of the message. Led by Chris Packham, with Dame Emma Thompson another notable figurehead,…
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RSPCA Assured
It is not much more than a week ago that I posted about this: Chris Packham and the RSPCA – Animal Wild Now George Monbiot has reacted and his voice is, as ever, worth listening to. How is it, he wonders, that an organisation has come to stand for the precise opposite of what it…