Tag: RSPCA
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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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RSPCA Assured scheme scandal update
I have written about this several times, most recently, following Brian May’s resignation as vice-president, here: HARDtalk with Ingrid Newkirk – Animal Wild I had allowed myself to believe that the RSPCA made no money from the wholly discredited scheme and so remained mystified as to why they didn’t just drop it. Why did I…
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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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Chris Packham and the RSPCA
Chris Packham has taken a swipe at the RSPCA, of which he is president, which is perhaps somewhat overdue. I have been saying for a long time and elsewhere in the blog and in my books: “It has been suggested that I am somehow anti the RSPCA, but I’m not. They do a lot of…
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The RSPCA and a king
The tireless Protect the Wild has deplored the appointment (perhaps I should say anointment, the royals seem to like a bit of anointing) of a king, Charles Windsor (i.e. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) as its new patron, describing him as an animal abuser. It is the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, so I can…
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Creating beauty from brutality. Mulberry Mongoose
This lovely bracelet, ordered from the RSPCA shop, arrived this morning. The inclusion of my favourite animal, an elephant, made it irresistible. It has been suggested that I am somehow anti the RSPCA, but I’m not. They do a lot of good work and get some very unfair bad press. I do feel strongly that…