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Mar 19, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Joanna L. Grossman |Bharat Dogra |Carter Dillard |Reynard Loki
Africa has banned the killing of donkeys for their skins. Why isn’t the U.S. doing the same? Donkeys have been our steadfast companions for centuries, valued for their strength, hardiness, and work ethic. Yet, for many, a donkey’s value is still only skin deep.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Carter Dillard |Reynard Loki |Florence Foo
Animal-lovers everywhere and campaigners against cruelty to animals have welcomed the recent ban on slaughter of donkeys for their skins imposed by the leaders of Africa gathered at the African Union summit in Ethiopia recently. ( Reference 1 or R1)This was a follow-up of a decision taken earlier in December 2022 at an African Union—Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resource Conference at Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania which had called for such a ban.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
law360.com | Carter Dillard
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By Carter Dillard (December 19, 2023, 5:58 PM EST) -- In the various worlds of lawyering, animal law — the law that regulates and ideally protects the most vulnerable among us — is often a fringe matter....
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Nov 25, 2023 | 
slguardian.org | Carter Dillard
Here’s a disturbing fact: Prosecutors in the United States charge more penalties for the activists who reveal animal cruelty crimes than they do for the factory farms that commit them. This trend is a glaring miscarriage of justice, and it must be reversed.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
nationofchange.org | Carter Dillard
Here’s a disturbing fact: Prosecutors in the United States charge more penalties for the activists who reveal animal cruelty crimes than they do for the factory farms that commit them. This trend is a glaring miscarriage of justice, and it must be reversed.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Carter Dillard
U.S. prosecutors have charged more penalties for activists revealing blatant animal mistreatment than they have charged factory farms with committing it. This trend is a glaring miscarriage of justice, and it must be reversed. Here’s a disturbing fact: Prosecutors in the United States charge more penalties for the activists who reveal animal cruelty crimes than they do for the factory farms that commit them. This trend is a glaring miscarriage of justice, and it must be reversed.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Carter Dillard |Reynard Loki |Florence Foo |Colin Henstock
U.S. prosecutors have charged more penalties for activists revealing blatant animal mistreatment than they have charged factory farms with committing it. This trend is a glaring miscarriage of justice, and it must be reversed. Here’s a disturbing fact: Prosecutors in the United States charge more penalties for the activists who reveal animal cruelty crimes than they do for the factory farms that commit them. This trend is a glaring miscarriage of justice, and it must be reversed.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Mouna Hashem |Countercurrents Collective |Bharat Dogra |Carter Dillard
by Mouna Hashem and Martha MundyIt is no joke; the man who will preside over the upcoming climate summit, COP28 (which will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), from November 30 to December 12), is the chief oil executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), the third largest oil company in the Arabian Peninsula: Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, who also is the United Arab Emirates Minister for Industry and Advanced Technology.
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Mar 13, 2023 | 
newsweek.com | Carter Dillard
The trolley problem is a story philosophers often use to get people thinking about ethics and their obligations to others. Traditionally, the problem has us imagine we are an onlooker standing next to a trolley track. There are five people tied to the track ahead of a moving trolley. We have the choice to save the five by pulling a lever and diverting the trolley to another track. But there is someone tied to that other track.
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Mar 3, 2023 | 
counterpunch.org | Carter Dillard
There is a conflict between ecocentric people struggling for freedom, and anthropocentric people threatening that freedom. This conflict, which happens beneath the surface of most media, constitutes a “secret war” for what the future of Earth will be.
