Bang the Drumstick Slowly

About 26 billion chickens occupy Earth, but apart from the lucky ones in backyards, most are condemned to the hellscape that is industrial farming.

The New York Review of Books
The Power of Agricultural Industry | KPFA

Guest: Will Potter is an award-winning investigative journalist who focuses on social justice and environmental movements, and attacks on civil liberties post-9/11.  He is the author of Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege and his latest, Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable.   … Continued

KPFA

'Gehört das dort hin?' #FotoVorschlag

#NikonZ7II #NikonZ #NIKON Z 7II | 130mm | f/6.3 | 1/160s | 27/10/2023

#hess_photography #photography #fotografie #crueltytoanimals #Tierquälerei

The Melbourne Cup is so much more than a public holiday and a horse race: it's a festival of cruelty to horses, gambling, family violence, and drink-driving.

#NupToTheCup #MelbourneCup #CrueltyToAnimals #AnimalAbuse #AnimalCruelty

The Cruelty is the Point

Acts of cruelty to animals are more than a slight personality flaw. A history of animal torture and abuse has been linked repeatedly to serial killers and

CounterPunch.org

@Independent

Shocking #CrueltyToAnimals -- cat kicked viciously, dies 3 weeks later

However, I strongly agree with the sentence and have recovered some hope in the #UK legal system:

https://press.coop/@Independent/111387311545131537

The Independent :press: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Cat-kicker caught after video footage went viral admits animal cruelty charge Terry Bree was sentenced to a 12-month community order and ordered to pay £200 in compensation at Leamington Spa Magistrates’ Court. #press https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/leamington-spa-warwickshire-facebook-b2445380.html?utm_source=press.coop

press.coop

@parunk

You make a good point.

Whether or not someone agrees about any given specific definition of #crueltytoanimals, cruelty to animals is known to precede #crueltytohumans. https://bityl.co/GJLp

The two types of #cruelty cannot be viewed as separate types or grades of cruelty.

The Link Between Animal Cruelty and Human Violence

When investigating claims of animal cruelty, law enforcement should be aware of the well-documented link to violence against humans and other types of violent crime.

FBI: Law Enforcement Bulletin