Posts Tagged ‘animal rights’
 

 
International Political Forum

China’s Dog Meat Festival – Cruelty Or Culture?

In some parts of China, dog meat is considered a delicacy at the dinner table and the practice of consuming dog meat has been around since 500BC, or possibly even earlier. However, as more and more Chinese are raising dogs as...
by Global Voices
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International Political Forum

Taiji: Waters Run Red

Not a lot of people have ever heard of Taiji, a small town nestled in the Southern-Central region of Honshu, Japan. The name certainly does not cross the minds of a lot of people who take their kids to watch funny flippered ani...
by Shambhavi Saxena
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Hong Kong: Say No to Ivory Trade and Crafts

A coalition of concerned individuals and NGOs, Hong Kong for Elephants, rallied on October 4 in the city center calling on the Hong Kong Government to destroy its entire stockpile of 25 tonnes of confiscated ivory. The local...
by Oiwan Lam
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Bengal tigers under threat: Only 106 left in the Bangladesh Sundarbans Forest

The number of Bengal tigers in the world’s largest mangrove forest has decreased dramatically according to new figures. It stated that only some 100 Bengal tigers were found in the Bangladeshi part of the Sundarbans Fores...
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla
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International Political Forum

Kittens’ Eyes Sewn Shut For Experiments

Scientists at Cardiff University have been sewing shut kittens’ eyelids to discover how the brain responds to sensory deprivation. In research that took place in 2010, but only recently came to light, more than 30 kittens and...
by Paula Munteanu
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International Political Forum

WATCH: We are all Earthlings

“Three primary forces exist on this planet – nature, animals, and human kind. However, it is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, oftentimes treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects...
by Adriana De Sousa Calado
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