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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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These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two

The search for a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all

#GinkgoToothedBeakWhales
#Whales #Cetaceans #Oceans #Marinelife

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Until the sightings last year, the only evidence of the existence of the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale had come from a few dead specimens that had washed ashore. Photograph: Craig Hayslip Scientists think the ginkgo-toothed beaked whales live off the shores of California and northern Baja California in Mexico. Photograph: Sergio Martinez A rare beaked whale found dead on Waitpinga beach in South Australia. Scientists have heard many beaked whales’ calls without a known source. Photograph: South Australian Museum A dense-beaked whale, also known as Blainville’s beaked whale. Researchers are trying to build maps of the deep-diving whales’ distribution from acoustic data. Photograph: Minden /Alamy
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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‘They don’t belong in Canada,’ Video of African Lion Safari’s elephants playing in snow sparks welfare concerns

#Cambridge #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #Elephants #Zoos
#AfricanLionSafari #Wildlife #AnimalWelfare #AnimalCruelty #AnimalRights #BoycottZoos

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A video posted by the Hamilton-based park African Lion Safari shows multiple elephants trudging back and forth in the snow. (Courtesy: africanlionsafari1969/TikTok)
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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B.C. wolves use line to pull up crab traps in first possible tool use by species 🎥

#BellaBella #BC #Canada 🇨🇦 #Wolves #SeaWolves #BCpoli #Cdnpoli #Wildlife #Science #Animals #Nature #Oceans #Marinelife

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A sea wolf is captured on video, in this handout still image, near Bella Bella, B.C., extracting a submerged crab trap using a buoy and an attached line, in what researchers are calling the first evidence of possible tool-use by the wild animal species. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Kyle Artelle (Mandatory Credit)
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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#Winnipeg couple plead guilty to #AnimalCruelty after killing cats, birds, axolotl for videos they sold
Animals killed include more than 60 cats, as well as rabbits, hamsters, rats, frog: prosecutor 🎥

#Manitoba #Canada #MBpoli #Cdnpoli #Crime #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

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Irene Lima and Chad Kabecz have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty after they were arrested following an investigation into dark web animal torture videos. (Facebook)
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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#UniversityofBasel Students in Switzerland Vote for 100% Plant-Based Catering by 2030

#Switzerland #University #Students #Plantbased #Cafeterias #Food #Catering #Education #Health #Ethics #Vegan #StudentUnions #Referendums #PBUBasel

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November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Bad news #Toronto...

#FattyBearVeganPastries to close this month

Vegan pastry lovers will have one more chance to buy goodies on Nov. 22 before the pop-up shuts down early

#Food #Vegan #TOpoli #ONpoli #VeganBusiness #Plantbased #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli

www.torontotoday.ca/local/food-d...
Fatty Bear Vegan Pastries, a pop-up located at 1607 Dupont St., will close on Nov. 22, 2025. Gabe Oatley/TorontoTodayGabe Oatley/TorontoToday A sign posted in the Fatty Bear Vegan Pastries window tells customers the shop will be closed this Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. Gabe Oatley/TorontoToday
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Vegan diet can halve your carbon footprint, study shows

#Food #Vegan #Health #Climate #ClimateAction #Family #Cooking #Schools #Education #Cafeterias #Students #HealthyLifestyle #Plantbased #FoodSystems #Science #AnimalAg #Pollution #Environment

www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/11...
Picture of a variety of beans and lentils
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The Meat Agenda: Agricultural Exceptionalism and Greenwash in Brazil

#COP30 #Brazil #Meat #Beef #Greenwashing #Climate #LandGrabbing #Deforestation #Methane #Pollution #AnimalAg #AnimalWelfare #Health #FactoryFarming #ClimateCrisis

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November 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Report Uncovers Greenwashing by Brazilian Meat Giants Ahead of COP30 in Belém

#Brazil #COP30 #Climate #Greenwashing #JBS #Marfrig #Minerva #Methane #Meat #Beef #Livestock #Pollution #Health #Water #FactoryFarming #Deforestation #ClimateAction

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Arid area, with smoke rising. In the middle is a plate, with a meat steak on it © catalin-stock.adobe.com Clear cut deforestation © Richard Carey – stock.adobe.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 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
#Canada 🇨🇦
#Cdnpoli
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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#RemembranceDay
#AnimalsInWar
#PurplePoppy
#Cdnpoli
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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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

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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
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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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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

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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
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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

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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

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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 🇺🇸

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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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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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#BeyondMeat Launches Value Pack in #Canada 🇨🇦 Alongside New Packaging in #Europe and #UK 🇬🇧

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

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© 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

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Picture of confined beluga whales
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Factory Farming is a Blight

#AnimalAg #USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #FactoryFarming #CAFOs #Democrats #Republicans #Chickens #Cows #Pigs #Beef #Dairy #Eggs #Milk #Pork #Poultry #Antibiotics #SyntheticHormones #USDA #Cancer #Fertility #Health #WaterPollution #AirPollution

www.palladiummag.com/2025/11/01/f...
Jakob Kotton/A herd of cows in the British countryside
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Newest J-Pod orca calf missing, presumed dead

Latest observation of J-Pod on Oct. 23 did not find J64

#Orcas #SouthernResident #Blackfish #Cetaceans #Marinelife #Wildlife #Oceans #Environment #CenterForWhaleResearch #EndangeredSpecies #Cdnpoli #USpoli

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J64 is photographed swimming alongside its mother, J42, on Sept. 18. During an encounter with J-Pod on Oct. 23, the calf was not seen and is now presumed to be deceased. CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH J42 is photographed swimming alongside its mother, J42, on Sept. 18. During an encounter with J-Pod on Oct. 23, the calf was not seen and is now presumed to be deceased. CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM