In southern Russia, local “entrepreneurs” made a donkey parasail as part of a sick promotional stunt. The terrorized animal hung and brayed wildly above the sea for half an hour, then was dragged through the water back onto the beach. Read more »
Herds of fussing far-right and ultra-nationalists got Louie Psihoyos’s documentary ‘The Cove’ pulled from theaters. For the doc, a crackpot espionage team filmed footage of the bloody Taiji cove where dolphins are caught to be Flipper-ized. 23,000 a year are harpooned, labeled “whale meat” and stuffed into the kids’ free lunch. Read more »
Horse drawn carriages are mostly a cruel and stupid tradition enjoyed predominantly by tourists and so it’s only right that torturing them for human leisure will now cost more money. The City Council passed a measure that would increase rides from $34 to $50. They’ll also get more vacation time than average Americans and blankets. |AP|
Not in the same ballpark of terrifying with that Finish fur farm torture video, Four Paws’s janky anti-rabbit caging animation is Moz-aproved and why not? Cuteoverload-creature-suffering is ‘Everyday Is Like Sunday’ sad, even if it looks like it’s been made with MS Paint.
An animal rights group in Finland obtained video footage of deplorable conditions at fur farms in their country and, as you can imagine, the animals are all messed up looking and treated terribly. But there is a semi-happy ending. After a major network picked up the story, the Minister of Labour moved to outlaw the inhumanity.
The USDA has opened an investigation in the death of Tweet, the 18-year-old showbiz giraffe that collapsed and died last week on the set of the latest Adam Sandler masterpiece, “The Zookeeper.” PETA filed a complaint on behalf of the animal, claiming it was improperly housed, allowed to feed on a poisonous tarp, and forced to shoot at times that interrupted its natural sleeping habits. |BostonHerald|
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As though having their image copy and pasted over and over again wasn’t bad enough, some live pigeons have been imprisoned in promotion of Jeff Staple’s new release. LimitEDitions, a Barcelona shoe shop, created a display cage flapping with the iconic city bird and Staple’s latest iteration of pigeon apparel for New Balance. This avian abuse needs to end in all its forms. |Hypebeast|
Even the cold hearted U.S. Department of Agriculture was disturbed by PETA’s undercover video of elephants getting beat in the face with bull whips by cruel circus handlers and will be investigating. Ringling Bros. of course denied they mistreat their pachyderms, but the Animal Welfare Institute might disagree. They also filed a lawsuit that is almost nine years in the making against the circus for the harsh treatment of its Asian elephants. Ringling Bros. responded by launching a website for damage control, complete with propaganda video. Final arguments were finally presented in March of this year, but it’s still unclear how the case concluded.
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