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…
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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
- WHY ENDING CAGES MATTERS – FOR ANIMALS, FOR US, AND FOR OUR FUTURE
20 Like on Social: What a Rescued Hen Taught Me About Our Food System Every now and then, something small and feathered arrives in your life and reminds you what progress really looks like. For me, that reminder came more… Read more: WHY ENDING CAGES MATTERS – FOR ANIMALS, FOR US, AND FOR OUR FUTURE - NATURE’S DECLINE ISN’T AN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE – IT’S A SECURITY CRISIS
A long delayed Government report now confirms what scientists – and many of us – have warned for years: nature’s collapse threatens national safety. - Love, Hope and Healing: the Magical Power of Animals
358 Like on Social: When I think about the importance of love, my mind turns to a most unlikely doctor – a gentle healer who moves quietly through the palliative care hospital in Calais, France. Staff simply call him “Doctor… Read more: Love, Hope and Healing: the Magical Power of Animals - WHEN A WINTER VIRUS MEETS OUR MORNING EGGS
Like on Social: Why blaming wild birds misses the real cause of our worst avian flu outbreaks It begins with a silence, the kind followed by a cull. The setting belies the tragedy. The rolling hills and outstanding natural beauty… Read more: WHEN A WINTER VIRUS MEETS OUR MORNING EGGS
Social Media Top Three Tweets –
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’