Animal Welfare & Rights Industry News & Blogs

Industry News & Blogs

Newsvine - IPO plan for China bear bile company raises ire
www.newsvine.com | 8 hours 23 minutes ago
A storm of criticism in China over share listing plans by a company that sells tonics made with bear bile is highlighting the increasingly affluent country's changing attitudes toward the environment and wildlife.

Farmer at centre of RSPCA pig cruelty probe found dead at home - Mirror Online
www.mirror.co.uk | Feb 15, 2012
Animal rights group Animal Equality produced video footage of pigs being kicked, slapped and beaten with iron bars

McDonald Presses Pig Farmers to Stop Using 'Gestation Stalls' - WSJ.com
online.wsj.com | Feb 14, 2012
McDonald's is pushing its pork suppliers to stop confining sows in small pens known as gestation stalls, moving to address concerns raised by animal-welfare advocates—and catch up with some competitors.

Ways Cleaning Announces Sponsorship of the Humane Society | PRLog
www.prlog.org | Feb 8, 2012
Ways Cleaning Announces Sponsorship of the Humane Society. Pembroke Pines based house cleaning service provides financial backing to the Humane Society in support of their animal protection services - PR11792738

Dolphins have no part in this dispute with Iran | Peter Singer | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk | Jan 19, 2012
Peter Singer: For the US Navy to put dolphins in harm's way in the Persian Gulf is a form of speciesist enslavement we should be ending

Bottom Line - Horse meat may be back on the menu
bottomline.msnbc.msn.com | Nov 30, 2011
Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspectionss a month.

McDonald's drops egg supplier after cruelty footage - Business - Retail - Food Inc. - msnbc.com
www.msnbc.msn.com | Nov 18, 2011
McDonald's will be looking for a new egg supplier after Mercy For Animals released footage from an undercover investigation of animal cruelty at Sparboe Egg Farms, a supplier.

A cat's game of hide and seek - UQ News Online - The University of Queensland
www.uq.edu.au | Aug 2, 2011
Hiding may play an important role in relaxing cats according to University of Queensland honours student Mark Owens.

Consumers pay up for animal welfare proof - Scotsman.com Business
business.scotsman.com | Jul 12, 2011
Consumers pay up for animal welfare proof - CONSUMERS are backing the concept of meat and animal products coming on to supermarket shelves with an assurance on animal welfare, with a massive increase in the sales of the RSPCA's Freedom Food branded produce.

Gary Gibbon on Politics - Monkey business in the Commons over circus animal ban
blogs.channel4.com | Jun 23, 2011
The claws were out in the House of Commons over David Cameron's crackdown on an MP's attempt to ban the use of live circus animals, as Gary Gibbon writes.