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It’s a tradition which, I think, were someone to try and start today, would be almost universally opposed.
85yr old man pleads for dog, Kim
“I’m going to keep fighting for Kim for as long as I can”
Online petition to save pet has surpassed 3,000 signatures in only 12 hours
Kim has no previous history of biting or bad behaviour.
What was the justification for exterminating a family of wild boar that was discovered in county Kerry? Well, the answer, as usual, is based on agriculture: The notion that if this “invasive species” was allowed to take hold in Ireland, it might pass diseases on to our poor domestic pigs, and, in the final analysis, […]
Can animals be victims of hate speech? Yes, according to a recent article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. Two academics from Sheffield University, in England, invoke heavy-hitting hate-speech theorists to argue that arguments which apply to humans must also apply to animals. “There is no in-principle reason to support the censure of racist hate […]
Instinctively, there are two things that come to mind with a story like this: First, lock them up and throw away the key. 23 #Buzzards #poisoned with banned neurotoxin #Carbofuran in Co. #Cork. The biggest #WildlifeCrime ever documented in the State. This required a strong and prompt response from the National Parks @josephamadigan @DeptAHG @gardainfo […]
A fascinating piece in Newsweek, yesterday, speculated that Coronavirus is, in fact, man-made, and that it may well have come directly from Chinese efforts to engineer a deadly virus. Speculated is a key word here, because speculation is exactly what it is. There’s no hard evidence. But there’s speculation, and then there’s informed speculation: “What’s […]
For anyone interested, as softies like me are, in wildlife conservation and protection, the People’s Republic of China has long been the world’s greatest and most abominable villain. Nearly all of the poaching of endangered species in Africa, for example, is carried out to meet the demands of the Chinese market. Rhinoceros are regularly shot, […]
Ireland has very firm laws on animal welfare when it comes to food production. As might be expected, these laws aren’t in place so much because we love our animals, so much as that they’re in place because the European Union imposed them, and because the agri-food sector is so important to the economy. Having […]
Alternative headline: “Green Party wants innocent wolves to be shot by nervous farmers”: Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan has called for the reintroduction of wolves in Ireland to help rewild parts of the country. Last wolf was killed near Mount Leinster in 1786. @rtenews pic.twitter.com/aYMRtvVrC2 — Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) October 1, 2019 Look, I’m an […]
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