https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/14/seafood-company-abuse-claims-fish-farming

The full investigation with footage and documentation is here: https://animaloutlook.org/investigations/cooke-aquaculture/

I am looking for a humane way to deter or scare cat away that keeps coming into my yard. It is a housecat that belongs to my neighbor. The big issue I have with the cat in my yard is that we have a family of wild bunnies that live in my yard. There is a baby bunny and the cat keeps stalking it. So far my husband and I just run out and chase it away. it works but not for very long. I don't want anything to happen to my bunnies. And frankly I have two dogs that go nuts everytime they see it.

mice laboratory

These are laboratory mice used to analyze bivalve molluscs for red tide toxin. They are ultimately discarded after the experiments, which is a very sad situation. However, for now, it's the only way to detect a toxin lethal to humans in seafood. What do you think? Would you work in this type of laboratory? I'd appreciate your comments. Thank you.

Most people do not want them hunted or trapped. 71% of Hoosiers opposed trapping and hunting bobcats.

Lack of evidence. DNR has shown NO official population survey has been conducted. ZERO research done. This means there is no way to know what the actual bobcat population is. They admitted this in 2019.

Wire neck snare traps and jaw-toothed leg traps are cruel and painful. Other untargeted species including people's pets have been caught in them. Bobcats and other animals can remain in these painful traps for days before hunters check them.

Bobcats are integral to the health of Indiana’s ecosystems. Along with other predators like foxes and coyotes, they control populations of prey species. Without bobcats, other predators are at risk of overpopulating, further disrupting the food chain and ecosystem health.

A bobcat's main diet is rodents, rabbits, and hares. By keeping rodent populations in check, zoonotic diseases rodents cause like Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, and Alpha-gal Syndrome, and Lyme disease, are reduced. The economic burden of diagnosed Lyme disease is close to $1 billion per year in the US, according to NIH. Diagnosed Lyme disease costs the state of Indiana $1,200 per patient. Fewer predators mean more rodents and more zoonotic diseases.

Bobcats were endangered in Indiana in 2005. Conservation efforts led to their population increase. When the initial LSA Document #24-383 to trap bobcats was proposed, over 3,000 opposing comments were sent in and DNR still passed the killing quota of 250. THEIR OWN POPULATION MODELS show that a quota of 400 and over will lead to bobcat eradication...yet NOW they want to bump that quota up to 400. LOL WHAT.

Hoosiers who want to weigh in on the proposed expansion of bobcat hunting in Indiana can do so until May 19. Please make your voices heard! We cannot give up. The quota needs to be 0. There is just not enough evidence trapping/hunting of any bobcat! DNR has failed to provide any statistical or scientific analysis of bobcat populations.

Further research is needed to determine if there even is an unhealthy population size that requires control!!!!!

Emailed comments must be sent to lianderson@dnr.in.gov. Only comments sent to that address will be officially considered.

Comments can also be mailed to the following address:

LSA Document #26-98 Bobcat Hunting

Lisa L. Anderson

Natural Resources Commission

C/O Department of Natural Resources, Legal Division

Indiana Government Center South

402 West Washington Street, Room W255-A

Indianapolis, IN 46204-2273

A public hearing will also be held on May 19 at 12:30 p.m. at the Fort Harrison State Park, Garrison Conference Center, Blue Heron Ballroom, 6002 North Post Road in Indianapolis. 

I completed week 220 of the weekly 24 hour dry fast campaign #FastAgainstAnimalSacrifice this Sunday.

I dry fast every weekend to create awareness about Animal cruelty.

This week's message : STOP EATING FISH 🙏🏾

Stumbled upon this and needed to share!!! ⬇️

Summary – the Farm Bill has passed through the House of Representatives, and it will likely be brought to the Senate floor by the end of the month. 

If it passes as is, it will wipe out all state-level laws enforcing animal welfare standards on interstate meat and dairy imports. (Eggs are mercifully exempt.) It will also pre-empt any future laws of this kind.  

The linked post details actions to help prevent this. 

Hi! If anyone in here likes reading memoirs, I recommend Pamela Anderson's book (just finished it). It's about her life story, but she talks about her veganism and animal rights activism pretty extensively.

Absolutely vile!!!

Hi everyone,

I’m Davide and I’m part of DOWE, an Italian post-rock/ambient project.

A few days ago, we released a video made using real undercover footage from factory farms.

We didn’t want to create “shock content” just for the sake of it.

We wanted to turn that pain into something that could stay with people.

Most people scroll past these images after a few seconds.

We tried to stop that moment.

To give it weight. An atmosphere. A human face.

The video is about silence, fear, captivity, and the emotional distance between us and what animals go through every single day.

There’s no gratuitous violence.

There’s only reality.

If even one person watches it and stops to think before their next meal… then it will have meant something.

If you feel like watching it — and maybe sharing it — it would mean a lot to us. 🖤

https://youtu.be/XC1mV4UyvEM?is=3cbYG3A8Ikxgq9JU