The decision to have a companion animal is a serious responsibility, which requires planning and a commitment to their long-term care. It should not be based on how well you can toss a ping pong ball into a bowl. Goldfish are living, feeling creatures, just like any other animal. Goldfish ... Read More
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Youth fishing campaigns are desensitizing children to animal suffering and promoting animal abuse. They are a gateway to lifelong, cruel animal exploitation.
In Touch the Sea Scarr shares her interactions with marine friends, including moray eels Adelle Davis and Popcorn, peacock flounder Oliver Twist, and Cheryl Tiegs Shark. Nonfiction, color photographs.
I remember...deciding I could never eat anything that had a face:
When I was five, we were on holiday on a farm, and there was this cute chicken running around. Later I realised it had been dished up on my plate. From that moment on, I’ve never wanted to eat meat ... Read More
When my first daughter was about six years old, I took her fishing for the first time in a small pond near Amherst, Massachusetts. I bought two fishing rods from a local K-Mart and headed to a nearby pond with her. I read all of the fishing rod instructions and ... Read More
The Rainbow Fish is written and illustrated by Marcus Pfister and read by Ernest Borgnine. A story about a beautiful fish who learns to make friends by sharing his most prized possessions.
Hunting and fishing were my passions in life. I realized that despite what I had been told, I was not biologically a meat eater. Since I had no biological necessity to eat meat, I had no necessity to kill the animals I was eating.
Oddly enough, I felt like I was ... Read More
There was a time in my life when fly-fishing was my life. I was a true fish bum. My entire existence revolved around the “sport”...But as time went on, something changed within me. It was a gradual change — a slow raising consciousness, if you will. I fought it at ... Read More
LETTER: In Appreciation of Our "Underwater Cousins"
By Cynthia Cruser, published in The Independent on August 31, 2017.
I was born in Providence in 1952, and my family has been in New England since the 1600s. My childhood memories hold cherished summer days spent each year on the salt ponds ... Read More
The story of the three fishes is an interesting and engaging one. It is also one of the popular moral tales from the Panchatantra tales.
Who Lives in the Ocean is a novelty book from Top That Publishing for preschool children. Read the simple question on each page, then slide the tab or lift the flap to reveal the answer. Children will watch in delight as the ocean animals appear! From a cute dolphin to ... Read More
This petition calls on major grocery chains including Sobeys Inc and those within its management (Thrifty Foods and Price Chopper) to end the use of live lobster tanks in stores across Canada.
Thousands of short-beaked common dolphins are being killed by fishing vessels targeting pelagic fish species in EU waters. This barbaric practice is referred to as 'bycatch' by the fishing industry. We are calling on Karmenu Vella, the EU Commissioner for Environment Maritime Affairs & Fisheries, to take urgent action to ... Read More
Goliath grouper were once abundant from Florida to Brazil, but overfishing and habitat loss decimated their numbers. Since 1990 harvest and possession of the fish have been prohibited in U.S. federal waters and state waters off Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. This ban has allowed goliath grouper to recover, ... Read More
President Trump is determined to give oil companies unrestricted access to oil and gas under America's oceans, and his plans to dramatically expand offshore drilling off the California coast threatens marine wildlife and coastal communities with oil spills, toxic pollution and more fossil fuel infrastructure.
Your beach may be more polluted than you think. Each hour we dump one ton of invisible pollution into the ocean; if it were a visible, tangible substance like oil, we would demand that the spill be halted. Even though you can't see it, this pollution threatens our sea life ... Read More
Animals who have been killed for food this year in the United States.
I was living as a boarder in a house where they had too many pets. The cats and the dog got lots of love but the bunnies and fishes were virtually ignored and weren't getting adequate care. One day the grandmother, who moved in temporarily while I was living there, ... Read More
"People in charge of civic projects have a responsibility to do the least harm. They shouldn’t have such apathetic, defeatist attitudes." Arizona Daily Star, November 15, 2017