Fahim Amir is a Viennese philosopher and author. He has taught at various universities and art academies in Europe and Latin America. His research explores the thresholds of nature, cultures and urbanism; performance and utopia; and colonial historicity and modernism.
Both “Pigeon Politics” and “Swinish Multitudes” are excerpts from the book Being and Swine, now available for purchase in the US and Canada from the publisher, Between the Lines, and in the UK from Foyles. The ebook is available worldwide from Between the Lines.
Sue Coe
Since the 1970s, Sue Coe has worked at the juncture of art and activism to expose injustices and abuses of power. Her illustrations have graced the pages of The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Progressive, The Nation, and the cover of ARTnews. Her exhibitions include a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC and a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, NY. She is represented by Galerie St. Etienne, NY.
On January 30, 2024, a girl from Xinjiang, China, bit a cat on a live stream. Later, she claimed that she was drunk at the moment and bit the cat back when it bit her.
Is being drunk an excuse for abusing animals?
Please report her Douyin account: 61841769484 to jubao@12377.cn.
WAV Comment – Real Men always wear Combat Trousers !! ?
All Photos – UAnimals
Uanimals, a Ukrainian animal protection organization, has shared information that Russian soldiers have been killing animals in the occupied Kherson Oblast and proudly displaying their deeds in photographs.
The organization received the photos from a member of the volunteer community depicting Russians from the occupied part of Kherson triumphantly posing with the lifeless bodies of various animals.
Russian soldiers are shown holding dead hares and birds. Another picture shows a Russian posing next to a slain deer, a UAnimals associated at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology confirmed. While the exact locations of these gruesome acts cannot be pinpointed, an analysis conducted by the organization validates that the photos were indeed taken in Kherson.
Before the invasion, deer thrived within the Askania-Nova Reserve and the Azov-Syvash National Park, both now under Russian occupation.
“These images are further evidence that Russians are killing everything alive in Ukraine and committing a true ecocide,” the organization said.
The left bank of Kherson Oblast has remained under Russian occupation since February 24, 2022, with military forces establishing an occupational “administration” within the Askania-Nova Reserve.
Ukrainian military personnel have reported that Russians are destroying natural reserves in the occupied Kherson Oblast. They deploy equipment, establish training grounds, and hunt unique animal species there.
Tiny Georgia town in uproar at plans to build a huge $400 MILLION breeding farm for 30,000 long-tailed macaques that will be sold off for animal testing
A tiny Georgia town is in uproar amid plans for a huge $400million breeding farm for 30,000 monkeys who will be sold off for animal testing.
Safer Human Medicine sparked fury in Bainbridge, in the south west of the state, by proposing the sprawling site for the long-tailed macaques.
It filed plans earlier this month to erect huge sheds across a 200-acre estate near the town of 14,000 people, which will hold the doomed primates.
Being new to the Iditarod, you had a great opportunity to build something modern, exciting, and humane. Instead you’ve maintained the status quo for the dogs who suffer chained up in the freezing cold and then are forced to run to exhaustion, injury, or even death in this cruel race.
As long as the race continues in its present format, dogs will continue to suffer from stress fractures, bleeding ulcers, and illnesses like intestinal viruses. They’ll continue to die after being buried in snow and of heart attacks, excessive fluid in the lungs, and acute aspiration pneumonia—a lung infection caused by inhaling their own vomit—which, as you know, is the leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod.
These dogs are just like those we share our homes with. They don’t want to have a “career”—they’re just unlucky enough to have been bred by mushers who push them past their limits and then leave them out in the cold. Please replace dogs with willing human endurance athletes, cross-country skiers, or even snowmobilers. The Iditarod would attract a new and growing audience—and spare dogs a life of pain and misery.
These posts/images are solely intended to show you what is happening, and we apologize for the graphic nature. However, to understand why this issue is so close to our hearts, and to all of those cooperating globally to end it, there must needs be an understanding of the “nature of the beast” we are facing. So bear with us. Thank you.
Great news – another Chinese cat torturer / abuser is exposed.
Here are our previous posts associated with Chinese cat torture, and Crush video sites. Be warned, there are some graphic images there; but animal abuse is animal abuse, and we will not hold back from showing anything that gets the issue across. You don’t dress up immense suffering with flowers; what you see is what you get – REALITY.
Another cat abuser in China exposed. The cats were adopted online through fraud, then tortured and killed!
A man from Henan, Zhumadian, Feng Xiang, cheated multiple cats (estimates from 20 up to 200) into adoption through Xianyu app.
Now many foster carers have come forward to testify. The man’s employer also stated in the interview that he will actively set up an investigation team to conduct a follow-up investigation!
This matter is so bad, and so many people have been deceived. If the situation is true, hopefully there will not be only criticism and education for the abuser, but also some justice to all deceived owners and cats! ! !
The action:
The Chinese activists are reporting Feng Xiang to many local authorities. We can send an email to his workplace, Zhumadian Science and Technology Association, and ask them to fire him.
There is a lot going on with this issue; but due to a lack of general animal welfare legislation within China, this type of abuse is very common and is spread via the dark web; and very often linked to Porn and Vice – i.e. “Girls (female activists); send us some photos of yourself in the nude and save a cat !!” As said before in our previous post on the matter, and as a warning: DO NOT do that. It never works, and never saves an animal.
All those involved are sick, demented perverts who get a kick out of torturing and killing animals – and promoting it via their dark web links – a cancer growth within the internet that MUST BE exterminated. While it is true that there are literally MILLIONS of followers (of similar ilk) and (paying) consumers that, when combined with the lack of action from the Chinese authorities, make it difficult to achieve positive results – it cannot be stressed enough that “difficult” doesn’t mean impossible. Real change never comes overnight, and while many more animals will sadly suffer the unspeakable before these individuals face the consequences, we are committed – as we hope, you are – to do our part to end this.
Combined as we are – a global animal rights community – we can and will hit, and hit hard. In the end, the Chinese authorities will have to take action, in the interest of global save-face. Where degraded conduct like this is tolerated, no successful business can and must exist with a global community of countries that have zero tolerance for the abuse and murder of the Helpless – make NO mistake.
There is more to come, exposing more abusers and those complicit in their crimes very soon – we are working on it right now, and will publish very soon. So stay tuned.
Regards Mark and Diana
Please, if you have cats to be rehomed, DO NOT offer them in ads as ‘free to a good home’; as this is the source of supply to many of these abusers torturers – and not in China only of course. No matter how genuine they may appear to you; there could be a supply to the torture world. So, get animals sterilised and stop the abuse.
Last week the European Parliament issued a resounding call to the European Commission, urging the Common Fisheries Policy to improve the welfare of aquatic animals.
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) encompasses both the aquaculture and fisheries sectors and is pivotal in establishing the foundational objectives for the management of fisheries and fish populations in the EU’s waters, along with the market and financial aspects of aquaculture. It ensures both sectors are ecologically, economically and socially sustainable.
On 18 January, the European Parliament (EP) voted on what the next steps of CFP implementation should include, adopting a new report laying out the achievements and shortcomings of the CFP since its last reform, over a decade ago.
However, the report calls for updated legislation, ignoring the fact that the key reason that the CFP is not resulting in sustainable fishing in the EU is because Member States consistently set fishing quotas above scientific advice. The priority should be better implementation and enforcement of the CFP, in line with the latest science.
A critical flaw in the policy is the absence of any consideration of aquatic animals’ welfare, despite billions of them being farmed or fished and ultimately slaughtered every year in the European Union. Although Article 13 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union requires fishery policies – among others – to “pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals”, the CFP is the only EU policy which deals with living animals but contains no animal welfare provisions.
Last Thursday, the Members of the European Parliament asserted the need to change this, calling on the European Commission (EC) to take into account the welfare of farmed and wild-caught fish in the CFP. This move aligns with the sentiment expressed by European citizens, as over 90% of respondents in the 2023 Eurobarometer indicated a demand for farming and breeding practices to adhere to basic ethical requirements..
In the same vein, Commissioner Sinkevicius also made a promising statement during the debate – “I (…) recognise that future research and innovation is required, in particular on species-specific welfare parameters (…)” – gives us hope that the European citizens’ demand for better animal welfare conditions – including for aquatic animals – will be heard.”
World Animals Voice 