There is a limit to what we can say here. But a dog called Lady of a Wolfie/Kelpie mix was seized by local laws officers of a NSW rural council because of her owner’s failure to comply with the requirements of the council’s dangerous dog declaration. But Lady’s owner lived in public housing and was…
The Panel has intervened to attempt the rescue of two dogs, Knuckles and Zeus, on death row at the City of Greater Geelong. An urgent interim injunction stopping the dogs from being put down was obtained by Panel counsel last week. The matter returns for the hearing of an interlocutory (pre-trial) injunction in the Supreme…
Keeping chickens in battery cages and pigs in sow stalls will attract fines under an Australia-first ban on factory farming to be introduced by the ACT Assembly today. In 2007 a bill introduced by ACT Greens MLA, Dr Deb Foskey, to ban the production of battery hen eggs failed to attract the support of…
Scientist claim that a new three dimensional device for depicting cancer tumors stands to reduce the number of animals used in testing of compounds in cancer research by up to a third and offers the prospects that ultimately animals may not be necessary for use in cancer research. Read more here: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/d-cancer-device-cuts-animal-testing/story-e6frfkui-1226716509691
Live export vessel, the Pearl of Para, with 5240 cattle on board has been stranded in Cockburn Sound (off the WA coast), for the past two nights after abandoning a voyage to Israel because of propeller shaft coupling trouble. Mechanical failure on this ship last year led to the death of 400 pregnant cattle on a voyage from US…
Croucher J of the Supreme Court of Victoria at 10am today determined to allow Kerser’s appeal against the Associate Justices’s refusal to grant leave (permission) to appeal, and fixed an early date of 11 October 2013 for hearing the appeal itself. It will be recalled that at the first VCAT hearing Jade Applebee lost her…
‘BREAKING NEWS: Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld California’s ban on the production and sale of foie gras, the cruel delicacy produced from the livers of force-fed ducks. The court held that the ban was constitutional, finding the foie gras lobby’s challenge failed to even “raise serious questions” about the law’s constitutionality, The…
The Queensland government has bowed to industry pressure and adopted Coles ‘free range’ definition of 10,000 chickens per hectare. The previous commonly accepted standard that applied under the Domestic Poultry Code (4th edn) was 1,500 birds per hectare. Purported ‘free range’ chickens are thus to be allotted one square metre or the size of your front…