Chaudhry Usama Wains received a message on his Facebook page in January 2018. An aspirant for a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly seat was interested in buying a lion and wanted it delivered to a specific location in Peshawar.
Wains, who deals in animals, drove from his home in Faisalabad along with
Breaking news: Unilever, maker of Dove and Degree products, supports global ban on animal testing for cosmetics
In a pathbreaking announcement that signals a certain end to the cruel practice of testing cosmetics on animals, the industry giant Unilever – maker of such popular brands as Dove, Degree and TRESemmé — today announced it will support a global ban on such testing, in collaboration with Humane Society International, the
IT’S OUR DUTY TO TREAT ANIMALS AS HUMANS
In India, while both laws and judicial pronouncements recognise that animals possess certain privileges, they lack the status of fundamental rights as provided to humans by the Constitution. Animals need recognition
Steven M Wise, founder and president of the United States-based Nonhuman Rights Project, is one of the world’s foremost scholar
This needless exploitation of animals
The animal testing and experimentation industry is everywhere. It is secretive, pervasive and profitable. Most of you don’t even know that the products that you buy have so much suffering in them.
So many companies test on animals. Even those that don’t need to do so. For instance, perfume companies
The tragic lives of India’s mistreated captive elephants
For more than a month, Rajeshwari, a 42-year-old temple elephant in India, lay desultorily on a patch of sand, her forelimb and femur broken and her body ravaged by sores.
An animal lover went to the court, seeking to put her down. The court said the pachyderm could be “euthanised”
Animal testing is costly and inefficient; investment in more humane science may yield better solutions
So many companies test on animals. Even those that don’t need to do so. For instance, perfume companies by now have isolated all the ingredients needed to make a perfume. It is simply a matter of mixing them. But they continue to spray the perfume in rabbits’ eyes, slice their
‘Bloody Milk’ Indirectly Poses Hard Questions for India’s ‘Gau Rakshaks’
The argument for Bloody Milk (Petit Paysan in French) with its theme of loved, but endangered cattle, to have been a part of the competition section of the ongoing Pune International Film Festival is strong. An award-winning debut by French filmmaker Hubert Charuel, the film comes at a timely moment
Two-year undercover study reveals cruel side of India’s dairy industries
What goes into the daily glass of milk that ends up on your table? A recurring process of animal cruelty, according to a two-year nationwide study by Pune animal protection group Animal Equality.
Inexperienced men using unsterile equipment to artificially inseminate dairy animals, calves snatched from their mothers just days after
New rules would help plug gap of regulate animal markets
An animal protection body today said there was no process earlier to regulate animal markets but the new rules on cattle slaughter would help plug that gap. Animal Equality which conducted a nationwide study of cattle markets also “exposed” the “horrific” cruelty inflicted on cattle in them. The Ministry of
Cruelty to birds
At the Bombay High Court Mr. Justice Bachelor recently decided a case under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (Act XI of 1890) in which the learned judge had to acquit the accused person on the ground that the provisions of Section 3(b) of the Act were not wide
