Ohio’s Conklin Dairy Farm Investigation Awakens the Masses Part 1/4

While our country is busily arguing the politics of health reform and education cuts, sending emails, texts and ipadding away, there’s an invisible yet ever-widening rip current of emotional indifference and apathy rushing into the American psyche like never before…

Don’t buy animals from pet stores

That may seem counterintuitive, but PETA’s undercover investigations have demonstrated time and again that pet shops and the companies that supply them treat animals like disposable objects. No thought is given to the fact that they are living beings…

The Whaling Deal: It’s All in the Numbers

by Kieran Mulvaney. With less than a month to go until the International Whaling Commission holds what could be its final annual meeting in Agadir, Morocco, the authors of a proposed “compromise” deal — that would in essence allow Japan, Norway, and Iceland to continue whaling for ten years at arbitrarily set quotas — have [...]

Where’s the beef? Indians don’t want to know

Wander the streets surrounded by vegetarians, enjoy being adorned with garlands and treated with god-like reverence as you look forward to dying of old age. But danger lurks, even in paradise…

They Are Only Numbers

BY MICHAEL BUDKIE, SAEN. In 2007, the University of California, Davis, passed the milestone of imprisoning and/or experimenting on over 7600 non-human primates in one year. The majority of these monkeys are rhesus macaques, crab-eating macaques and titi monkeys. It is almost impossible to visually conceptualize a group of over 7000 primates — let alone [...]