Tag: PETA
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More macro, PETA news and Cats & Art
I haven’t quite emulated the gorgeous Wild Chicory photos which inspired me, (Blue dancers | absolutelynotnormal), but I am pleased with these nonetheless. A bit more sunlight would have made the blues of the petals and stamens contrast more strongly. I took these yesterday during my walk with Chilli the Norfolk Terrier for the Cinnamon…
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A mouse, snakes, bulls, penguins, palm oil, cows, dogs, bears, fossil fuels, and the Danish numbering system
A mouse Emptying one of the water tubs I use for solar irrigation of various pots in the garden, sadly I found a drowned mouse. I left it on the ground intending to come back, pick it up with a recyclable plastic bag and put it in the dustbin. Soon after there was that horrible,…
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British Wildlife Magazine August 2025
Volume 36 number 8 It seems quite brave to put a ‘humble’, unglamorous fern on the cover, but I love ferns so it works for me. Specifically it’s a Rustyback Fern, Asplenium ceterach. This issue opens with the last of the Wilding for Conservation series, 26 articles, a reflective piece by Rob Fuller and Guy…
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King Charles is displeased, pheasants, licences to kill, badgers, camels, plastic, water and animal sentience.
Pheasants I don’t read Hello! magazine, but someone at Protect the Wild does and has reported with great wit on a piece which records that Charles (king) is “devastated” and “livid”. I am stealing from the PtW writer’s style, but about what could it be? The rise of the Far Right in Europe, the war…
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New Scientist magazine, pointless animal experiments, tractor protest and through the microscope at HART Wildlife Rescue
Returning briefly to Bill Bailey’s book, My Animals and Other Animals, I was shocked to see what he said about Whale Sharks (and therefore all animals, or just fish?). Is our imagining that they live lonely existences just a projection, since they do not have “the faculty of self-awareness”? That is one hell of an…
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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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HARDtalk with Ingrid Newkirk
Interviewed by the always incisive Stephen Sackur on the BBC’s HARDtalk, the PETA president was magnificent. She was, as ever, calm, assured, and totally unflappable. She gave her answers politely but was never mealy-mouthed. Quietly forceful, never strident. “Animals are not like us,” she said, “they are us.” Her interviewer provocatively suggested that animals do…
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Starmer, farmers, foxes, badgers, salmon and more
Sounding and feeling a little like a Roman Catholic penitent at confession, it has been two weeks since my last post. It has been a busy time – my son turned 18 and so there was much celebration, I travelled to the hugely disappointing Spurn Migration Festival near Hull, of which more in a separate…
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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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Every Animal Is Someone
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year and has launched this wonderful new slogan with typical skill and panache. This morning I received their Vanguard Member newsletter in which I was appalled to read that forced swim tests are still being carried out at the University of…
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A Horse in Full and PETA
I have been watching a recent offering from Netflix, A Man in Full, starring the great Jeff Daniels. The style is somewhat like that of the magnificent Succession – a nasty tale about mostly nasty people with absolutely no redeeming features, and a disturbing subplot or two. The Jeff Daniels character, Charlie Croker is Trump…
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Crufts and flat-faced dogs
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have protested at Crufts, on one occasion being met with physical violence from security people. They are calling for and end to the senseless “canine beauty pageant” and the demeaning behaviours the dogs are forced to perform. In particular they are drawing attention to flat-faced or brachycephalic…
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Royal Pigeons
Members of the royal family are no strangers to the enjoyment of extreme animal cruelty – their patronage of various wildlife organisations is a smokescreen of course. See Animal Trust and Animal Wild. A letter from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) highlights their abuse of pigeons. Three, from King Charles’ Sandringham loft,…