JUNE COMPASSIONATE WORLD ROUNDUP BLOG
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
Social Media Top Three Tweets
The Top tweet was ‘Calf rammed repeatedly by police’
Calf rammed by police 4×4 repeatedly is doing remarkably well
Perhaps this sorry saga can encourage the public to appreciate the importance of treating sentient farm animals with respect & compassion
Many are still unaware of the cruelty of #factoryfarminghttps://t.co/lTRexnOPNh— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) June 18, 2024
with 12,800 impressions, 2,100 engagements and 1,200 likes
Next it was ‘Please support Ban Live Exports Awareness Day’
Please support Ban Live Exports Awareness Day on 14th June
Humankind needs to wake up and act urgently to stop this needless cruelty across our world
Thank you ???? #BanLiveExports @ciwf pic.twitter.com/NkwNo5aQRS— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) June 9, 2024
with 12,600 impressions, 1,800 engagements and 1,000 likes.
And thirdly, ‘End this horror – sea in Faroe Islands turns red as 138 pilot whales slaughtered’
End this horror – sea in Faroe Islands turns red as 138 pilot whales slaughtered
Utterly #heartbreaking
Humanity’s abject cruelty to fellow species knows no bounds
Shame on #FaroeIslands https://t.co/h6KYuGSgMl— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) June 4, 2024
with 12,500 impressions, 1,500 engagements and 730 likes.