Understanding the issues: caged birds
Rather than acknowledging the obvious cruelty of keeping a living being destined to fly free in the sky confined in a cage, we have been conditioned to think that this practice is acceptable.
Rather than acknowledging the obvious cruelty of keeping a living being destined to fly free in the sky confined in a cage, we have been conditioned to think that this practice is acceptable.
Eighty-five percent of the fur industry’s skins come from animals raised in ‘battery’ cages2, where animals are deprived of any form of quality of life and the ability to perform their natural and instinctual behaviours. Mink live solitary lives and…
It is so often forgotten that this group of much maligned animals has the same capacity to suffer as any other animal in Australia.
Dehorning is one of the most traumatic experiences cattle are forced to endure. Both male and female calves usually undergo this surgical procedure without anything to dull the pain.
Each night in Australia, kangaroo families flee in terror as they’re chased down by hunters in utes. These iconic native animals are being slaughtered at an alarming rate to supply the lucrative meat and skin trade.
Have you ever wondered why hens can be packed into a single cage for their entire lives, when their suffering is so obvious? Or why mother pigs can be confined in cages so small they can't even turn around?
While the leather industry may bank on the perception that animal skin is 'prestigious' or 'stylish', the reality for the animals whose skins are used is anything but glamorous...
Unique, beautiful and vital to keeping our environment flourishing. But Australia's iconic flying foxes are at risk — and that means our native landscape is, too.
Government-sanctioned kangaroo killing has been largely hidden from the public eye – carried out as darkness falls across the outback. Until now.
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