The Queen of Ivory”, a Chinese national, arrested by a specialized Task Force in Tanzania. To date, she is the most important ivory trafficker ever arrested in the country. Dar-es-Salaam, 8 October 2015 – A specialized wildlife trafficking unit under Tanzania’s National and Transnational Serious Crimes Investigation Unit (NTSCIU) arrested a number of high-level Chinese […]
vegan.com It’s a great day for animals: Target has just introduced its own brand of vegan meats! Target is a one-stop-shop for virtually everything—groceries included. We’ve long been singing praises for the many vegan products that are appearing on Target shelves—from several varieties of soy milk to Gardein cutlets to Annie’s vegan gummies.The increasing presence of […]
BY HANNAH SENTENAC, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF · JULY 1, 2015 As any vegan visitor to Starbucks is well aware, there’s little available in the way of plant-based food; a plain bagel, a bag of nuts or a fruit cup is about it. Now, animal advocacy org Compassion Over Killing is teaming up with author and activist Jane Velez-Mitchell in officially asking the coffee giant to add […]
Staff and volunteers play with the rescued South Korean dogs to help acclimate them to humans and human touch shortly after they arrived at the Sacramento SPCA campus on Friday. The dogs were rescued from a South Korean dog farm where they were slated to be slaughtered for meat markets. Humane Society International intervened to […]
You may have recently noticed a shift in IAKA’s attitude toward finding a solution to the Korean animal crisis. With the continued impotence and indifference of the Korean government toward the needless suffering of companion animals (and indeed the intentional mislabeling of IAKA protests as attacks on Korean culture) we find we have to take a new approach […]
We’d like to give our supporters a quick update on what has been happening recently. So far there have been two developments in the fight against Korean animal cruelty. First of all – some good news! Two dog-meat farms in Korea have been shut down after the government received multiple complaints from concerned Korean animal […]
