Category Archives: animal rights

Brigitte Bardot: ‘I couldn’t wear Lagerfeld while feeding my goats’ | Fashion | The Guardian

What would you say in response to Karl Lagerfeld when he defends the use of animals by saying they are also exploited for consumption?

I doubt very much that Karl Lagerfeld eats much mink or fox or chinchilla. It is important not to mix things up; each battle must be waged in its own right. The farming of animals for their fur is absolutely dreadful.

Have you met Lagerfeld and worn his designs, and what do you think of him?

I live the life of a farmer. I don’t see how I could wear Lagerfeld’s designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.

Despite the work done by such organisations as Peta and your foundation, fur is still popular in the fashion world. Why do you think this is?

Pride, stupidity or just plain ignorance have allowed this trend built on the lethal exploitation of animals to flourish once again. This is a war that we had won, or at least that we believed we had won, in the 1990s, since fewer people in Europe and in the US dared to wear real fur.

via Brigitte Bardot: ‘I couldn’t wear Lagerfeld while feeding my goats’ | Fashion | The Guardian.

India – Imported cosmetics may be fewer with stringent control on animal testing – The Times of India

Last year, India banned testing of cosmetic products and their ingredients on animals in India. However, companies were still found importing products, which had been tested on animals abroad.

The latest move seeking no objection from the supplying country and an undertaking from the original manufacturer of such imported products is to ensure that these products are not tested on animals at all, said an official with the office of the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI).

via Imported cosmetics may be fewer with stringent control on animal testing – The Times of India.

CDC: Salmonella cases in 40 states tied to live poultry

Boy with chick
Robert Roos | News Editor | CIDRAP News
Jul 02, 2015

The outbreak with links to chicks and ducklings involves four different strains.

via CDC: Salmonella cases in 40 states tied to live poultry.

VDU’s blog: Ebola virus: wild and domestic animals, plants and insects…

VDU’s blog: Ebola virus: wild and domestic animals, plants and insects….

Mega-important when one considers how intensive agriculture of fruits increases population of carriers and transmitters, which then may become more vulnerable due to population pressures/stresses. May also be tied to lands recently deforested for intensive agriculture.

Goose Exterminator of the Netherlands Enrages Animal Rights Activists – NYTimes.com

{Because, we think our needs come before “nature,” we justify nearly any type of cruelty and foolishness} The entire oper

ation, however, takes hours. To make sure the geese do not just fly away, Mr. Den Hertog limits his activities to their molting period, the few weeks each year when they shed old feathers on their wings to make way for new ones. Unable to fly, they gather in water for protection from predators.

In small boats, Mr. Den Hertog and Mr. Spitzen, the ranger, approached geese relaxing in a canal off the Lower Rhine from opposite sides, a pincer operation intended to drive them toward the river bank, where Mr. Den Hertog, his son and other helpers had set up a kind of chute to funnel the geese to the gas chamber.

A few, as if sensing doom, appeared to be suddenly gripped by wild panic and somehow found a will to fly, fleeing before it was too late on their sparsely feathered wings.

“I love geese. They are very smart,” Mr. Den Hertog said, saying he had been fascinated as a boy with catching animals in the countryside and had spent years perfecting his goose extermination system.

via Goose Exterminator of the Netherlands Enrages Animal Rights Activists – NYTimes.com.

Boozy chimps in west Africa enjoy drinking sessions in groups – Telegraph

Wild chimpanzees enjoy opportunistic booze-ups on palm wine, scientists have discovered.

The chimps in the west African country of Guinea found a free treat in raffia palms tapped by local people to extract a sweet, milky sap which then ferments into an alcoholic drink

The apes scrunched up leaves in their mouths, moulding them into spongy pads that they then dipped into the sap-gathering container, which villagers attach to the tree near its crown.

Tests showed that the beverage’s alcoholic content varied from 3.1 per cent to a whopping 6.9 per cent, the equivalent of strong beer.

Some of the chimps went a little, well, ape.

via Boozy chimps in west Africa enjoy drinking sessions in groups – Telegraph.