animal rights

World Week for the Abolition of Meat: 

Animal Rights Zone (ARZone), the global campaigning, activities, and social network for animal advocates, announces the third phase of their ongoing Vegan Buddies Programme.

With a new video http://arzone.ning.com/video/new-to-veganism-then-this-video-is-for-you-...
[direct YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w_EytTohAoE] this phase of ARZone’s Vegan Buddies programme makes the facility publicly available to people who are new to veganism or who are thinking of or interested in living vegan.

The ALP has almost completely backed down on demanding proper animal welfare standards in Indonesia.

The government has now lifted the ban on live cattle exports but doesn’t have any guarantees that cows will be killed humanely.

Animals Australia says under the new plan cows will continue to have their throats cut while fully conscious, often with small, inadequate knives.

The government has refused to demand mandatory stunning of cattle before they are killed. “Stunning would not be required, but ''encouraged''.

Preeminent animal rights philosopher Professor Tom Regan is the award-winning author of more than 20 books, including The Case for Animal Rights (1983), Defending Animal Rights (2001) and Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights (2004). He has been described as “the philosophical leader of the animal rights movement” by the editors of Utne Reader (October, 2010) , who named him, along with the Dali Lama, as “one of fifty visionaries who are changing the world” [1] and is co-founder (with his partner Nancy) of the Culture and Animals Foundation.[2]