The ambitious goal that rapper/activist turned entrepreneur Gaia’s Eye (real name Gabriel Nadler) is working to advance with his new Animal Rights-dedicated company, vegan brain food .
But the primary vision of the “Animal Rescue Life” brand, for which Vegan Brain Food is the first manifestation, is to push the entire multi-billion dollar vegan food industry towards a new paradigm and a new realm of competition, where customers actually expect their favorite brands to give a meaningful percentage of profits back to the animals who inspired the global rise of veganism in the first place.
Kylie Jenner at Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2023 collection with a huge lion’s head attached to her dress.Credit: AP
WAV comment – I wonder if any of these ‘oh so’ couture houses have ever donated any money to the preservation of wild animals such as lions and wolves ? – very much doubt it.
And Naomi Campbell; was she not once heard to say that she would rather go naked than wear fur ? – ok, this is not real fur, but in our opinion, it is promoting the use of fur and as a result, either the breeding or killing of animals for their fur.
We agree with Carrie, all of this does nothing but adding to “promoting trophy hunting” by using the fake animal heads. Well done Carrie for speaking out.
Kylie Jenner criticised by animal rights groups for wearing lion’s head to Paris couture show
Reality TV star Kylie Jenner has caused an up-roar after appearing in a dress accessorised with an uber-realistic life-sized lion’s head at Schiaparelli’s couture catwalk show in Paris.
The wild accessory was pinned onto the shoulder of a black strapless dress as she took her front row seat at the legendary fashion house’s label’s spring-summer 2023 couture collection.
Ms Jenner’s lion’s head – replete with fangs and bushy mane – was a preview of the collection, and was joined on the runway by other beasts’ heads, including a wolf, modelled by Naomi Campbell, and a snow leopard.
Carrie Johnson attacks ‘grim’ fake animal head couture dresses
Carrie Johnson (wife of ex UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson) has accused an Italian fashion house of promoting trophy hunting after supermodels wore life-sized fake animal heads on the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week.
But the show caused environmentalists, including Carrie Johnson, to accuse the fashion brand of “promoting trophy hunting” by using the fake animal heads.
Ms Johnson posted online about the show, with the message: “Grim! Real or fake this just promotes trophy hunting. Yuck”.
A spokesperson said: ‘The Labour Department is saddened by the death of the person and expresses its deepest sympathy to his family.
A World Animals Voice (WAV) spokesperson said:
Well some people will still eat meat and things like this happen sometimes. We really only have concerns for the pig and hope very much that the Karma pig escaped slaughter and will end up being taken in for a happy life free from abuse by the activist organisations.
A Chinese butcher was killed by his own pig in what appears to be a tragic case of karma.
While detectives are yet to determine the cause of death, it seems the pig caused the butcher to stab himself with the knife.
It is unclear whether the pig managed to escape its fate.
Police in England arrest six men over suspected illegal fox hunting
Six men have been arrested and 22 dogs seized in police raids over suspected illegal fox hunts across several English counties.
The men were arrested in dawn raids on Wednesday by police from Kent, Norfolk, Sussex, and Thames Valley, in one of the UK’s largest ever fox hunting investigations.
RSPCA officers who took part in the raids seized 10 dogs near Canterbury and Folkestone in Kent, three near Farringdon in Oxfordshire, and nine near Wisbech, Norfolk.
Above – The animal rights group Oikeutta Elaimille (Justice for Animals) revealed footage of animals leftto sit in their own waste whilst suffering from infections and other physical ailments, such as this white fox with an infected ear
Forced to eat their dead siblings, left to suffer painful infections and bred to become hugely obese… then killed to make coats: Finnish fur farm horrors revealed in undercover video
At the end of January I will be publishing a post on an issue which I hate more than just about anything else – live animal transport – specifically the death of Jill.
For me, February 1st is always a bad day; as it was the day we (anti export campaigners in England UK) lost our beloved jill who was murdered by the live export industry.
More to come and plenty of information at the end of the month to remember Jills death of 1st February 1995.
At rodeos, calves are yanked violently with ropes and pinned down; bulls and horses are jolted with electric prods, spurred, and viciously kicked; and straps are tightened around the animals’ abdomens to provoke them to bolt and buck – all in the name of putting on a show.
A New South Wales council is considering a licence for rodeos at the local showground, which means now is the perfect time to tell it that rodeos are a relic of a cruel, bygone era.
Please sign our petition, which we’ll enter as our submission to the public consultation before it closes on 31 January at 10 am.
TAKE ACTION – Please sign the petition to stop this animal abuse:
This is action immediate – the PETA Australia submission to the public consultation before it closes on 31 January at 10 am.
For 50 years India has had legislation in place to protect elephants from commercial exploitation in the form of a ban on trading and transporting elephants. That protection ended with a devastating vote by the Indian Parliament, which recently amended the 1972 Wildlife Protection Act with the Wildlife Protection Bill, allowing elephants to be “transported or traded for religious or any purpose.”
A betrayal of advocates
In India, activists who have dedicated much of their lives to ending the brutal treatment of Asian elephants were heartbroken by this news. In Defense of Animals has been fighting along with them to call attention to the plight of these endangered animals. This law passed despite elephants being given the highest protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Our alert was signed by thousands of In Defense of Animals supporters to urge the Indian Parliament to stop this bill from proceeding. But on December 8, 2022, all hopes were dashed and all concerns for the protection of elephants were dismissed.
Betrayal of a sacred tradition
Elephants are revered as India’s national heritage animals. Since 300 B.C. killing a sacred elephant has been declared an odious crime. Where is this reverence when captive elephants are shackled so mahouts can inflict deep gashes on their legs with machetes, when boiling water is poured into their mouths, when they are beaten with bullhooks, forced to stand for hours on hot tarred streets, and subjected to the deafening roar of thousands of boisterous parade goers and the exploding fireworks that they set off that can blind and kill the elephants? Reverence for elephants has taken a back seat to the demand of brokers, religious temples, and private “owners” who put pressure on Parliament to protect their selfish desires to grow their elephant populations at the expense of the elephants themselves. This bill opens the door wide open for the capture of wild elephants to be used as indentured servants for life.
Not only that, but beaten and traumatized elephants rampage, causing injury and death. Keeping and parading elephants is touted as culturally critical, especially in the southern state of Kerala. But it’s also financially profitable. Temple elephants are rented out for Rs 7 lakhs ($10,500) a day so the rupees start to quickly stack up. Ganesha, the elephant-headed god is one of the most loved and feared gods throughout India. It’s believed that Ganesha’s penchant is to place obstacles in the paths of those who need to be checked, so it’s too bad that those who are exploiting them for religious reasons don’t seem to notice the contradiction.
A path forward to protect India’s treasured heritage
One temple has taken a step to protect India’s sacred elephants. Nalapathenneeswaram Sree Mahadeva Temple in Cherthala has introduced life-like robotic elephants to take the place of live elephants in temple parades. This is a vital move towards progress for the nation’s brutalized elephants. Let’s hope more temples side-step Parliament’s unfortunate decision to weaken protections for elephants, by also adopting this bold, innovative and humane action.
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