June Compassionate World Blog Round Up
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From news on Octopus farming, Ban Live Export Awareness Day, Danish fishermen and Puffins, to why cheap supermarket meat is killing the rainforest, plus a whole lot more…
For all the animal, farming, food and environment news from May and June, please use this great update
Opinion Articles
- Will our children heal the world, and will we allow them to?
Sitting on a child’s bed are rows of brightly coloured animals. A blue lizard. A golden lion alongside a purple monkey. - Penguins Are Key Indicators of the Ocean’s Health
In Betty’s Bay, South Africa, one of the world’s wildlife celebrities, an African penguin, was busy shaking herself free from the sea. - How we make food is insane — a conversation with animal advocate and author Philip Lymbery
For Philip Lymbery, the author of ‘Farmageddon’, ‘The Dead Zone’ and ‘Sixty Harvests Left’, we have two choices: change how we feed ourselves or prepare for extinction. - Danish fishermen are posing a new threat to Scotland’s dwindling population of puffins
A ban on commercial fishing for sandeels – on which puffins depend – is being challenged by the European Union - As My Octopus Teacher showed, these creatures are too intelligent to be farmed
The mind of an octopus can be compared to a three-year-old child’s. Are we really going to trap them in barren tanks of water while they await slaughter for food? - Cheap supermarket meat is killing the rainforest & driving people like Osvalinda from their homes
Smallholders like the late Osvalinda Pereira face a campaign of deadly threats and harassment from big companies that produce feed for animals in Europe and China
Blogs
- FROM THE MOON TO MUD: WHY EARTH’S FINAL FRONTIER LIES BENEATH OUR FEET
Like on Social: Of all the world records ever broken, perhaps the most striking has just happened beyond our planet. With Artemis II, humans travelled further from Earth than ever before, circling the Moon before splashing down safely back home.… Read more: FROM THE MOON TO MUD: WHY EARTH’S FINAL FRONTIER LIES BENEATH OUR FEET - ENDING FACTORY FARMING: THE NEW NATIONAL SECURITY IMPERATIVE
1 Like on Social: Why our food system has become a hidden threat to global stability What’s the one thing the war in Iran has shown us? – it’s that things happening in faraway places can have a big effect… Read more: ENDING FACTORY FARMING: THE NEW NATIONAL SECURITY IMPERATIVE - Why We Should Care About Nature: A Distinguished Panel at Oxford
Last weekend, BBC wildlife presenter and animal activist Chris Packham CBE, children’s author and Farms for City Children charity founder Sir Michael Morpurgo, author - Chris Packham is ‘Wild for Life’ in Oxford
It was a real honour recently to welcome wildlife presenter, environmentalist, animal activist and Compassion Patron, Chris Packham CBE
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The Top tweet was ‘Calf rammed repeatedly by police’
Next it was ‘Please support Ban Live Exports Awareness Day’
And thirdly, ‘End this horror – sea in Faroe Islands turns red as 138 pilot whales slaughtered’
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