Tony Wright of the Exmoor Foxhounds is the first hunt supporter to be found guilty of offences under the Hunting Act 2004. The private prosecution was brought by the League Against Cruel Sports and its program Hunt Crimewatch. As The … Continue reading
In the United States free speech is a right. It’s also a right in most of the European Union. But not in the United Kingdom. Animal Defenders International (ADI) wanted to buy TV ads for its campaign “My Mate’s a … Continue reading
The Grumpy Vegan continues to be amazed by our ingenuity in the ways in which we use, exploit and degrade animals. Today’s Guardian reports on the Royal National Lifeboat Institute’s annual fundraiser “conger cuddling.” Apparently, for more than three decades … Continue reading
All recreational animal killing is sneered at by the Grumpy Vegan but Internet hunting takes the, ur, bullet. Hunting is an act of cowardice. Macho-wannabees dress up in camouflage drag to commune with nature by killing doves and deer. To … Continue reading
Behind the curtain of so-called indigenous traditions involving the killing of animals lurks government subsidies and the stink of nationalism of the worst kind. Let’s take a closer look at Japan’s commercial (sorry, scientific) whaling and the recent Canadian seal … Continue reading
IFAW’s Vassili Papastavrou has it right: “Vote or no vote, 2,400 whales will be killed in the next twelve months.” The BBC correctly asks “How did the anti-whalers lose?” It seems that anti-whaling nations and pro-whale non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide … Continue reading
