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August 2, 2019

‘Thumping’ and other slaughterhouse terms

Do you know what ‘Thumping’ or ‘PACing’ means?   It is a slaughterhouse term used to kill piglets (and also baby goats) by swinging them around...

July 31, 2019

‘There Is a Sense of Trust Between Us’

This moving  story of human/non-human friendship is one of the most unusual we have seen.  It is the story of a Japanese Diver and his...

July 30, 2019

‘An Earth Without Insects?’

  Eighty percent of the biomass of insects has disappeared in just thirty years, and intensive agriculture, particularly the heavy use of pesticides, is  the...

July 29, 2019

Slaughterhouse Vigil, Land Meats, Whanganui, NZ: 28 July 2019

End Animal Slaughter website owner Sandra Kyle does regular weekly, or twice-weekly, slaughterhouse vigils in her home town of Whanganui, New Zealand, under The Save...

July 28, 2019

They Tried to Escape Their Fate

Standing at slaughterhouse gates bearing witness to the animals, Save Movement activists all over the world take photos and videos to share on social media. ...

July 26, 2019

A Plate of Scrambled – Roosters?

What’s behind your plate of scrambled eggs? End Animal Slaughter guest contributor SARAH OLIVER reminds us of a couple of things we may have overlooked....

July 22, 2019

Q&A: Casper Hilt, Full-time Animal Activist

Jobless and without a home, 36-year-old Danish activist CASPER HILT works 60 hours a week to change the reality for sentient beings.      Was...

July 20, 2019

The conflict between instinct and intellect in exploiting animals

End Animal Slaughter contributor PAUL STEVENSON writes that we will never self-actualise so long as we cause other animals to suffer.   Man is a...

July 20, 2019

From Dingley Dell to Hell: The Ethical Pork Myth

There is no ethical way to kill an animal who doesn’t want to die, writes End Animal Slaughter contributor LYNLEY TULLOCH   The slaughterhouse is...

July 10, 2019

Voices for Animals Across the Years: Richard Ryder

Richard Ryder has a special place in the history of the Animal Rights movement.  His influence was seminal in the early development of the notion...

July 9, 2019

Activists have been campaigning for years against the cruelty of industrialised farming and the horror of slaughterhouses,  and progress is being made.   The numbers of...

July 8, 2019

‘Possibly The Greatest Crime in the History of the World’

Israeli historian and Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem YUVAL NOAH HARARI has written a number of best selling books including Sapiens: A Brief...