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R. Brassard Ⓥ
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No one should be ashamed of not being a #Vegan... One should only be ashamed if you have seen the crimes against animals, and still you are not a #Vegan...

#AnimalRights #AnimalWelfare #EndVivisection #EndAnimalTesting #AnimalRescue #EndFactoryFarming
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R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · Oct 18
Time to change your life. Time to change the world.
#uspoli #cdnpoli #auspol #nzpol #EU #UK #Food #Health #Water #Environment #ClimateCrisis #NotOldMacDonaldsFarm #Meat #AnimalWelfare #AnimalCruelty #AnimalRights #AnimalRescue #GoVegan #Vegan #Plantbased #Education

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Watch Dominion (2018) - full documentary - Dominion Movement - Animal rights documentary DOMINION | We Will Rise Together
Watch the 2018 Australian documentary Dominion for free.
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#BC #Canada 🇨🇦 #BCpoli #Cdnpoli #FarmedAnimals #FurFarms #Health #PublicSafety #Wildlife
thefurbearers.bsky.social The Fur-Bearers @thefurbearers.bsky.social · 21h
According to a new BC Auditor General report, a program meant to help first responders identify threats to farmed animals – including disease outbreaks on fur farms – isn’t “equipped to provide detailed information.” Not all farms are registered and data is incomplete. Learn more: buff.ly/d7FWDs1
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#LegHoldTraps #Canada 🇨🇦 #Wildlife #Kids #Children #Pets #Cats #Dogs #Hiking #Walking #Outdoors #Family #Cdnpoli #PublicSafety #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights
thefurbearers.bsky.social The Fur-Bearers @thefurbearers.bsky.social · 5d
Leg-hold traps are still legal in Canada - and may be in your community. These traps cause significant injuries to fur-bearing animals, including family pets. Here are a few quick facts about leg-hold traps, and how to protect yourself and your family: buff.ly/qGkNmPf
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#BCpoli #Cdnpoli #Wildlife #AnimalWelfare #Education #BC #Canada 🇨🇦
thefurbearers.bsky.social The Fur-Bearers @thefurbearers.bsky.social · 21m
Our Win For Wildlife Winter Wonderland 50/50 Raffle is now live - winner takes half the jackpot! 💰 Proceeds from this raffle will be used to create educational materials that promote coexistence with urban wildlife. Must be 19+ and a resident of BC to participate. Order tickets: buff.ly/IaGPwCW
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Publicly funded through the US Department of the Air Force, 12 baboons were deliberately induced to suffer haemorrhagic shock—a critical medical condition that results from substantial blood loss—after as much as 40% of their blood was removed. tinyurl.com/53rjbp6s
Generic photo of baboon in laboratory cage; Cruelty Free International
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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actionforprimates.bsky.social
We welcome continuing action by US law enforcement following guilty plea by Katrina Favret of Tennessee to involvement with online #monkey torture groups paying for & distributing ‘animal crush’ videos depicting extreme violence against baby monkeys: www.wjhl.com/news/crime/g...
Long-tailed macaque infant for sale in Indonesia; Action for Primates
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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The absolutely sickening reality of ‘trail hunting’.
Well done to Lake District Hunt sabs for capturing the depravity of the, organised crime gang, Coniston Fox Hunt via drone footage. Our thoughts are with the fox and the sabs 👊 #fox #solidarity
huntsabs.org.uk Hunt Saboteurs Association @huntsabs.org.uk · 2d
𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐗𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐖 𝐀 𝐃𝐔𝐆-𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐗 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐒

We can reveal the moment a fox was dug-out from their refuge, before being callously and cruelly thrown to waiting fox hounds during a meet in the Lake District National Park. Read more ⬇️

www.huntsabs.org.uk/chris-packha...

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Coniston Foxhounds in the act of digging out a fox and ripping her to pieces
YouTube video by Hunt Saboteurs
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November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Avian Flu Wipes Out Nearly Half of Breeding Elephant Seals at World’s Largest Colony

The devastating virus is no longer just killing birds.

#AvianFlu #ElephantSeals #Marinelife #Wildlife #Birds #Health #H5N1 #Nature #Science #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

www.zmescience.com/ecology/anim...
An aerial shot of the elephant seal colony at St Andrew’s Bay, one of the largest populations of southern elephant seals on South Georgia. Image credits: British Antarctic Survey. Elephant seals stricken with avian flu at one of South Georgia’s largest colonies. Image credits: British Antarctic Survey.
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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#RemembranceDay
#InFlandersFields
#WarPoem
#Cdnpoli
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again

#LasVegas #Nevada
#USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #ElonMusk #BoringCompany #Crime #Environment #IllegalDumping #Wastewater

fortune.com/2025/11/08/b...
Elon Musk (left) and Steve Davis, president of Boring Company at a Boring event in 2018 in Los Angeles Patrick T. Fallon—Getty Images
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
veganrick.bsky.social
The Unraveling of the New England Primate Research Center

#USA 🇺🇸 #HarvardUniversity #HarvardMedicalSchool #AnimalTesting #Primates #AnimalResearch #Monkeys #AnimalCruelty #Wildlife #Science #AnimalWelfare #AnimalLaw #AnimalRights #NEPRC #NIH #USDA

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
A worker at the NEPRC poses with a primate on his back. Protesters gather in Harvard Square in 2012, with a sign reading "Release Harvard's primates to sanctuaries!" By Courtesy of The Harvard Crimson Archives Protesters rally in Harvard Square against animal testing in 2012. By Courtesy of The Harvard Crimson Archives
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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UPDATE: Our day in court has wrapped! Animal Justice intervened in an appeal motion for firefighter Adam Knauff, whose vegan discrimination case was dismissed on a technicality. The court is weighing 2 legal tests to decide if his appeal can move forward. We'll keep you updated on the decision!
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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animaljusticeparty.bsky.social
GOVERNMENT SLAUGHTERS HORSES

Wild horses were brutally shot from the sky in a Govt-funded killing spree - and it was entirely unnecessary.

When those in power reach for guns and violence instead of humane solutions you have to question why.

Cruelty as government policy.

#AusPol #Horses #Animals
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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32 Canadians sick, 8 hospitalized in growing #salmonella outbreak linked to recalled dog food, treats

#Health #DogFood #Treats #BC #Alberta #Ontario #NWT #Canada 🇨🇦 #BCpoli #ABpoli #ONpoli #Dogs #Pets

#PuppyLove #PuppyWorld

www.insidehalton.com/news/canada-...
The latest salmonella outbreak being investigated in Canada is linked to dog food and treats. Dreamstime
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Incredible, first-of-their-kind images show an orca being born in #Norway — and the rest of its pod forming a protective circle

#Orcas #Blackfish #Whales #Cetaceans #Marinelife #Wildlife #Oceans #Arctic #AnimalRights

www.livescience.com/animals/orca...
Researchers have documented an orca birth in the wild for the first time. (Image credit: Krisztina Balotay)
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
veganrick.bsky.social
Help Stop the Import of Endangered Monkeys for Use in Research

#Canada 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #Macaques #Monkeys #SkyTaxi #AnimalCruelty #Wildlife #Cambodia #AnimalTesting #LabAnimals #AnimalResearch #IUCN #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #WildlifeTrafficking

www.animalprotectionparty.ca/endangered-m...
Macaque in a wood & wire cage.
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#Documentary takes aim at elephant breeding practices at #AfricanLionSafari

A Toronto-based filmmaker is calling for a national conversation about the #ethics of keeping #elephants in captivity..

#Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

www.villagereport.ca/village-pick...
A baby elephant at African Lion Safari in May 2025. World Animal Protection Canada
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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West Coast mammal-eating killer whales are two distinct communities that rarely mix, finds study

#Orcas #Blackfish #Whales #Cetaceans #Marinelife #Wildlife #PacificOcean #BC #Canada 🇨🇦 #Alaska #California #Washington #USA 🇺🇸

phys.org/news/2025-11...
Inner coast transient killer whale hunting close to a Steller sea lion haulout off the outer coast of Washington. Credit: Jonathan Scordino Makah Fisheries Management. Photoidentification images of west coast transient killer whales collected in nearshore and offshore waters of the California Current. Top photographs are of adult males T011A (inner coast) and OCT064C (outer coast) and the bottom photographs are of adult females T046 (inner coast) and OCT036 (outer coast). Credit: Josh McInnes UBC MMRU / PLOS One (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0325156
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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'It was a horrible scene to witness': How bird flu has decimated elephant seal populations

#H5N1 #AvianFlu #Birds #Health #Wildlife #FurSeals #ElephantSeals #SeaLions #MonkSeals #Marinelife #Mammals #AnimalWelfare #Science #Nature

www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'It was a horrible scene to witness': How bird flu has decimated elephant seal populations
The sudden decimation by bird flu of the world's largest seal has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and the ecosystems shaped by these majestic animals.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Lobster with a side of microplastics? Canadian researchers find traces of #polyester, #PVA in meat 🎥

#NovaScotia #Canada 🇨🇦 #Lobsters #Marinelife #Oceans #Lakes #Fish #Microplastics #Health #Cancer #Food #Cooking #Restaurants #HomeCooking #Environment #Plastics

globalnews.ca/news/1151252...
Lobster with a side of microplastics? Canadian researchers find traces of polyester, PVA in meat | Globalnews.ca
The study's lead author says their research shows microplastics are 'not just out in the ocean, it's also ending up on our dinner plates.'
globalnews.ca
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Fox shot, paralyzed in Ontario town prompts animal cruelty investigation

#Tottenham #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Crime #OPP #Cdnpoli #Foxes #Wildlife #AnimalCruelty #AnimalLaw #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #Animals #AnimalRescue #ProcyonWildlife

globalnews.ca/news/1150987...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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#Cats #Outdoors #Pets #Wildlife #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRescue #Nature #Birds #AnimalSafety #AnimalLovers
thefurbearers.bsky.social The Fur-Bearers @thefurbearers.bsky.social · 9d
Many of us share our homes (and our hearts) with cats. But while cats make for loveable indoor pets, those that roam freely outdoors can unintentionally pose serious threats to wildlife. Here are some small, thoughtful changes we can make that protect both wildlife and our cats: buff.ly/pJOztGa
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights Movement

#Yemassee #SouthCarolina #USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #Monkeys #AlphaGenesis #Macaques #AnimalTesting #AnimalResearch #Wildlife #Animals #AnimalCruelty #AnimalWelfare #AnimalLaw #AnimalRights #LabAnimals #Veterinarians

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Monkeys confined behind a chained link fence At breeding and research centers like Alpha Genesis, conditions often drive monkeys to the point of madness.Photographs by Devin Lunsford for The New Yorker
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Happening today: Hundreds of monkeys exported by #Mauritius to suffer & die in testing laboratories in Europe & USA. Shame on @Ramgoolam_Dr & @SeeMauritius - the reputation of Mauritius as a holiday paradise is tarnished by this utter inhumanity to long-tailed #macaques.
Long-tailed macaques in intravenous toxicity test; SOKO Tierschutz/Cruelty Free International
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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#BeyondMeat Launches Value Pack in #Canada 🇨🇦 Alongside New Packaging in #Europe and #UK 🇬🇧

#Food #Plantbased #Health #Vegan #Cdnpoli #EU 🇪🇺

vegconomist.com/retail-e-com...
© Beyond Meat New packaging & bowl of vegetables with Beyond Meat on top
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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China’s Captive #Cetacean Industry Is Thriving

A report reveals the continued expansion of China’s #OceanThemeParks and the serious welfare issues faced by over 1,300 captive #whales, #dolphins, and #porpoises.

#China #AnimalCruelty #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

faunalytics.org/chinas-capti...
Picture of confined beluga whales
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM