“Puppy farming is a shadow industry which can only function through public ignorance. Tragically, it does – in fact, it thrives, not least because that ignorance has become especially pronounced over the course of the Coronavirus pandemic.”
animal welfare
A major study, the first of its kind, has been published by the League Against Cruel Sports Scotland for the Revive coalition for grouse moor reform, showing the extent of mass animal killings on Scotland’s grouse moors. The results are shocking. Calculating Cruelty shows that between 120,000 and up to around quarter of a million foxes, stoats, […]
Max Wiszniewski: Now we know the true extent of mass animal killings on grouse moors
“The position of the SSPCA speaks to a distinctly Scottish approach to wildlife crime that empowers the third sector in a manner largely unknown throughout the rest of the UK. The idea behind such distinction – that Scotland can and perhaps should do things differently – is potent.”
Sean Bell: New powers for the SSPCA reinforce the case for Scotland doing things differently
“The arguments provoked by the Coronavirus – what a society owes to those in need, and what a society can and must do to protect the most vulnerable amongst it – are moral in nature. To forget about the animals, even in desperate times, would be a moral failing.”