Summer 2005
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Live Transport: Another Source of Suffering During transport, farm animals are typically overcrowded and forced to stand without... more...
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Foie Gras Cruelty Halted in Isreal Ducks and geese are force-fed corn through metal tubes to make the "delicacy" known as foie... more...
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News From Capitol Hill Drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge May Be Imminent On April 28th, the House and the Senate both approved the final annual budget resolution conference report, which... more...
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Pigeons Used in Research - Anita Conte Pigeons Used in Research: From barren single-housing to an enriched environment by Anita Conte College of Staten Island... more...
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Behind the Roadless Green Curtain insider's perspective by Tim Hermach, President, Native Forest Council "The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." —Franklin D. Roosevelt A... more...
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Preserving Cultures: ACT helps the keepers of the forest keep the forest Saving Amazon rainforests is the goal of many environmental groups around the world, but the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) differs from most of its fellow organizations in its motivations. "The... more...
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Three Among the Wolves A couple and their dog live a year with wolves in the wild By Helen Thayer Sasquatch Books, 2004 ISBN: 1570613982 Hardcover, 238 pages; $22.95 It sounds too unbelievable to be true,... more...
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Rosebud's Struggle Subjected to harsh living conditions at Sun Prairie's Bell Farms, these pigs responded... more...
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Dolphins are Dying to Amuse You AWI Launches Anti Dolphin Swim-with Brochures Several years ago, Ben White of AWI co-founded the cetacean freedom network , an email-based assembly of captivity-conscious individuals and groups. Last year the group acknowledged the increasing... more...
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Representatives vote against horse slaughter House Helps Horses: Representatives vote against horse slaughter American horses may soon be safe from slaughter, thanks to two recent landmark votes in Congress . The first prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to fund the slaughter of wild horses, and the second goes even further by... more...
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SAPL: 50 Years of Growing a Movement Society for Animal Protective Legislation: 50 Years of Growing a Movement In our nation's capital, there are lobbyists for every industry imaginable—agriculture, energy, tobacco, defense—but what about the animals?... more...
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America's Whale Alliance Tours the West Coast Ashland Elementary School gives the bus tour a great send off. AWA... more...
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Fate of Famous Alaskan Wolf Pack is Seriously Threatened The well-known Toklat wolves need updated protections from hunters and trappers. Daniel... more...
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After 42 Years, AVMA Bans AWI An ostrich is "one who tries to avoid disagreeable situations by... more...
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Pork Company Sells Expired Meat After shocking revelations of unsanitary practices at one of its plants, the world's largest pork producer has sent in a team of experts to save its image and its investments. US-owned Smithfield Foods Inc. shut down Constar, its major Polish meatpacking plant, for 11... more...
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In Memory of Mieczyslaw Gorny Mieczyslaw Gorny, a conservationist and organic farming and animal welfare activist who used his position as one of the leading environmental experts in Poland to promote humane farming and animal protection measures, died May 15 in Warsaw, Poland at the age of... more...
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Endangered Species Handbook Online Endangered Species Handbook Goes Online We are proud to announce that an updated version of our Endangered Species Handbook is available on the... more...
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Voluntary blood samples differ from anesthetized samples - Steven J. Chimpanzees Used in Research by Steven J. Schapiro, Ph.D. Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research... more...
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OIE Releases First Global Standards for
Transport and Slaughter of Live Animals Animals around the world are a step closer to receiving the humane conditions they deserve, after delegates from all 167 member countries of the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) adopted live transport and slaughter standards in May. The guidelines cover sea... more...
