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By Meghan Scolyer, law student
In a landmark ruling last month, the High Court of the Indian state of Uttarakhand granted all animals within the state the status of legal personhood.
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This is an edited extract from The Lives of Brian by Brian Sherman with AM Jonson.
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Yet animal protection is one of the fastest growing social justice movements of our time
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Pigs are very much like dogs in all the ways that count: they are intelligent, social beings, with very strong bonds to their young, to their friends, and even, when permitted, to us. So why are they treated so very differently?
- Ethics & Philosophy
- Farm Animal Welfare
The fashion industry does not use animal’s skins as by-products of the meat industry – they are co-products – if not industries of their very own, that have huge impacts on the planet and of course, the animals themselves.
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Plant-based meat has taken off in a big way. Meat-free mince can now be found alongside animal counterparts in the chilled section of Woolworths, causing controversy among those in the meat industry who believe labelling plant-based products as ‘meat’ is misleading to consumers.
- Animals in Entertainment
Jasmine McManus, 16yrs, advocate for ending dolphin captivity in Australia.
Dolphins are so much more than what most people know of them.
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Bee-Elle, wildlife photographer and conservationist.
In the dead of the night, somewhere in the native grasslands of Australia, kangaroos are shot. Australia has culled 31.5 million kangaroos in 10 years, which makes for the largest commercial killing of land-based wildlife in the world.
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This opinion piece was first published on AlterNet on 6 February 2018. We witness our beloved pet pooches and feline friends experiencing moments of joy, pain, fear and even grief. We accept that they feel, they have an emotional world of their own. With this understanding, comes a moral imperative and legal framework to protect them from suffering.
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This opinion piece was first published on Mamamia on 26 January 2018. I was a sensitive kid, my brother always said over-sensitive. And highly anxious about the suffering of animals.