• MAJOR Australia and New Zealand E-Commerce Company Bans Badger Hair

    One of Australia’s and New Zealand’s biggest online stores has taken a stance on badger hair by removing it from its extensive website and even third-party suppliers.
    PETA contacted Fishpond – which has an online pool of more than 25 million products – with footage from a new exposé of China’s badger-brush industry. The video revealed that “protected” badgers are illegally hunted in the wild and that others are bred and confined on farms before b
  • Pig Semen in Shampoo Bottles?! And They Claim Protesters Are the Biosecurity Threat?

    In a scene straight out of a Hollywood farce, bosses of a Western Australia piggery have been caught, fined, and jailed for smuggling Danish pig semen in shampoo bottles. The importation has been going on since 2009, and it risks introducing a virus called the “pig plague”, along with other biohazards.
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    All the while, industries that exploit animals have been feigning concern about potential “biosecurity threats” on their factory farms from investigator

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