ies offer ANIMAL-assisted therapy as a form of treatment to selected inmates who demonstrate good behavior. Today, we find out about the benefits of these programs, how they work, and why they have been proven effective. In Australia, the Queensland Corrective Services runs the minimum-security Palen Creek Correctional Centre. The Centre works with a program that finds homes for greyhounds. Liam t

cks would STOP. It’s such a powerful thing to meet the ANIMALs before they go to the slaughterhouse and to see their faces and look into their eyes. We called it bearing witness.” One of the devoted volunteers at Toronto Pig Save was the late Regan Russell. A former model, she had been advocating for ANIMAL rights since 1977. In late 2019, a bill was introduced in Ontario’s legislature making it i

producing ANIMAL products to one that is fully plant-based and vegan and ethical as well. I was charged for giving water to thirsty pigs in 2015, and I was acquitted for that. The judge agreed that compassion is not a crime. The Pig Trial was really important for the development of our movement. I had two vegan lawyers that were representing me, Gary Grill and James Silver. What they did with this

rnational ANIMAL Rights Day, an event annually observed worldwide on December 10 to bring awareness that ANIMALs are sentient beings like us and deserve freedom, justice, and respect. Ronen’s worldwide investigations have revealed the truth of the ANIMALs’ extreme anguish in slaughterhouses and elsewhere to the public. His work has led to “wide-scale public debates, class action lawsuits, criminal

n is: “To STOP the degradation of Mother Nature and to conserve, rescue and provide medical aid to injured wildlife and rehabilitate wild ANIMALs, snakes, and birds to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.” Eventually, more than 100 youths from the area assisted him in rescuing more than 500 ANIMALs. Through this work and naturalist training camps he has held, he has planted

ve harmed ANIMALs, it’s now clear that that is going to lead to the destruction of the planet through climate chaos." The Amazon rainforest, considered the "lungs of the Earth," is being razed at a frighteningly rapid pace for ANIMAL livestock raising. "We have to end ANIMAL agriculture, and then we have to reforest the Earth and tackle the idea of private property and selfishness and say, 'The fo

8, the UK ANIMAL rights organization Uncaged, now known as the Centre for ANIMALs and Social Justice, a Shining World Compassion Award laureate, designated December 10 as International ANIMAL Rights Day. This date corresponds with the annual celebration of Human Rights Day, thus reminding society that ANIMALs also deserve freedom, justice, and respect just like humans. In honor of this important u

s of now, ANIMALs are not free yet around the world. So NARD functions mostly as a ‘Memorial Day’ for ANIMALs. So we commemorate the billions and billions of ANIMALs that die every year by human hands, and we honor the individuals that we sometimes have with us, the deceased ANIMALs that we have. We give them basically an ‘open-casket’ funeral ceremony. But we also commemorate their billions of br

actor and ANIMAL rights activist Aylam Orian. In addition to his love of performing, Aylam has cared for the ANIMALs and their well-being from a very young age. In 2011, Mr. Orian brought together ANIMAL rights activists for what would eventually become the first National ANIMAL Rights Day or NARD. “But we put on this event that was well attended. We called it ‘Our Planet. Theirs Too.’ But we did

aws. Both ANIMAL products and ANIMAL-free foods can be kosher. “Unfortunately, kosher doesn't mean that there was no ANIMAL CRUELTY. [It’s] the other way around. All the kosher meat sold in Israel is entangled, is connected to ANIMAL CRUELTY.” “The only kosher from a moral perspective is, of course, plant-based food.” “And when I look at all of this effort, endeavor, to help ANIMALs, I see two mai

Court to STOP the killing of stray dogs. The court sided with Mr. Nath and authorized VSPCA to coordinate an ANIMAL Birth Control program in Visakhapatnam. Since then, more than 100,000 dogs have been neutered and vaccinated, and an ongoing information campaign has raised public awareness of the efficacy of this approach to reducing the street dog population. Mr. Nath’s dedication to ANIMAL welfa