Florence Foo

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.

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.