Stephen Wilkes blends more than 1,000 photographs into each day-night cityscape – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian

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Petition · Houlton Police Department, Maine Animal Welfare Agency, Maine Dept. of Agriculture: Stop Severe Caspian Horse Neglect · Change.org

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Petition · Texas Legislature: Don’t punish children for their parent’s mistakes · Change.org

                            

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Petition · ALDI Australia: stop selling cage eggs from cruel battery cage farms · Change.org

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Dairy Worker’s Manure Drowning Raises Issues with Ag | VegNews

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A 37-year-old father died at an Iowa dairy after crashing a truck into and drowning in a lagoon of liquid and sludgy excrement.

Farm labor union United Farm Workers reported that a dairy worker in Idaho drowned in a manure lagoon last month. Ruperto Vazquez-Carrera was found in a pond of liquid waste at Sunrise Organic Dairy in Paul, ID after he had arrived at work for the morning and drove off in a company truck. Suspicions were raised when Vazquez-Carrera didn’t report for his duties at other areas of the dairy later in the morning, and by 4pm, his body was pulled from the lagoon. “He was here every day, never complained, and never had a problem,” Dirk Reitsma, owner of the dairy, told Times-News. “He was a top-notch guy.” The death comes a year after a similar incident in Washington occurred, months after a father and son…

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Meet the Four Women Who Went to Court and Came Home With a Goat

Emilio Cogliani

It wasn’t a normal day. Animal rights activist Anita Kranjc was appearing in a small-town courthouse facing criminal charges for giving water to a thirsty pig en route to slaughter. The case is so outrageous that it has inspired international media attention; although the trial isn’t scheduled until this summer, even periodic pre-trial appearances have seen dozens of supporters making the trek to the courthouse with a message that compassion is not a crime.

A winter storm meant only a few supporters made it to the courthouse last Thursday. The morning was uneventful; mostly, they waited and chatted. Afterwards, the small group of activists–friends deeply bonded by their common burning dedication to creating a kinder world for animals–had lunch together. Over a shared vegan meal, activist and farm owner Anthea Larke casually mentioned that she had room to provide sanctuary to more animals, which is already home to rescued pigs…

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