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. Continue reading
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 powerful pro-blood sports lobby. Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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