Driving the Fur Trade Out of Ireland: Laura Broxson of the National Animal Rights Association
Last year, Ireland was about to ban fur farming — then a change of government set activists back to square one. Undeterred, the National Animal Rights Association will be pushing the fur farming industry in Ireland harder than ever this year, on multiple fronts. NARA founder Laura Broxson tells us all about it.
John Fitzgerald on the Fight to Ban Blood Sports in Ireland
Ireland is about to revise its animal cruelty laws for the first time in over a century. John Fitzgerald returns to Animal Voices to describe the practices animal advocates want banned — such as “hare coursing” and “terrierwork” — and to give us an inside view of the political battle shaping up between animal advocates and the...
Bad Hare Days: About Hare Coursing with Veteran Activist John Fitzgerald
The “country sport” of hare coursing is one that is rife with multiple levels of cruelty. Hares are brutally snared from the wild using nets, they are kept starving and confined for their duration in captivity, and they are eventually made to run for their lives from two bloodthirsty and hungry greyhounds. Those that outrun...
