The campaign against the mass killing of gannets by the annual “guga hunt” on Sula Sgeir in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, is gaining momentum as endangered Leach’s storm petrels have also been shown to be negatively affected by it. 🐦
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#seabirds #birds #gannets
Workers ripped birds' heads off, crushed their throats, and slammed them into the ground. PETA traced their chicks into a pipeline tied to @Petco, @PetSmart, and @petland. Hear the inside scoop on #PETAPodcast 🎙️ https://t.co/EnXE9YrYwX
Dottie, a bottlenose dolphin who lived 39 years at SeaWorld, died this week without ever feeling the rhythm of the ocean, or the freedom she deserved.
SeaWorld describes Dottie as a devoted mother of four calves, but they separated her from every single one of them. That is not devotion, that is the reality of captivity, where profit determines family bonds.
Dottie was born into concrete tanks and died in them. She never experienced the open sea. She spent her life performing for tourists, not because it was natural or enriching, but because SeaWorld's business model depends on it.
SeaWorld positions itself as an institution rooted in marine science. They know, because the science is unambiguous, that cetaceans are highly intelligent, wide-ranging, socially complex animals. They know that no tank, however large, can meet the physical or psychological needs of a dolphin. And yet they continue their breeding program, ensuring that more animals like Dottie will be born into the same captive cycle, never knowing the life they were meant to live.
Dottie's story should not end with a tribute post. It should end with change.
SeaWorld must end its dolphin breeding program now. No more calves born into captivity. No more mothers separated from their young. No more lives defined by performance and concrete walls.
Dottie deserved better. The dolphins who come after her deserve better.
A ‘cimbello’, decoy pigeon being trained for wood pigeon hunting👺
•Tethered/strapped to a mechanical platform (racchetta or rullo)
•Forced to perform natural movements, landing, stretching, wing-flapping, via the mechanical device
•Used to attract wild pigeons to the hunting area so hunters can shoot them
The welfare concerns are severe:
•Live bird permanently restrained and stressed
•Forced to move against its will repeatedly
•Exposed to danger (being shot at, predator attraction)
•Unable to escape or seek shelter
•Psychological stress from confinement and unnatural positioning
•Used purely as an instrument for killing other animals
#BanHunting
#HuntTheHunters
📍#Livorno #Italy
🌟GOOD NEWS: The @EPA's updated list is helping pave the way for fewer animals to be used in deadly chemical tests.
Now it’s time to make non-animal science the standard and urge the @US_FDA to replace tests on animals 🔗https://t.co/zRag3ooARY
Just moments after birth, baby chicks are crushed, suffocated, or ground up alive just because they're male and can't lay eggs. THAT is what you're paying for every time you buy a carton of eggs 💔 #NationalEggDay
Our anti-dairy documentary crowdfunder has been picked up by 95 newspapers - including The Scotsman, The Yorkshire Post, Bristol post and many more!
And the coverage is extremely supportive! https://t.co/PkXHQvYryK
Imagine being mutilated, skinned, and forced into boiling broth 💔 Frogs feel everything, just like humans.
Leave them and all other animals out of your hotpot.
Animal fHarming is oppression 👺
Forcibly drenching them. Forcibly supplementing them. Forcibly medicating them. Only for a profitable exploitation. It is all a cost benefit calculation. When it becomes too expensive to keep them going —> slaughterhouse. #EndAnimalExploitation #DitchDairy TODAY #LiveVegan don’t exploit animals 🙏